Baby Crested Gecko Food

Female crested geckos can experience calcium crash after laying eggs.

Baby crested gecko food.

Plant based foods day geckos crested geckos and a few other species include fruits flowers nectar and similar foods on their menu along with the insects that carnivorous gecko species eat. The insects should be gut loaded and dusted with calcium and d3 powder. The general guideline is to feed a good crested gecko diet cgd every other day with gutloaded dusted insects being introduced around a month after hatching if desired. Crested geckos eat small amounts of fruit in the wild in addition to insects.

Read up on proper supplementation and choose appropriate fruits to feed your crested gecko. Insects in general should be no bigger than the width of the gecko s head. Accordingly you can provide these omnivorous species occasional fruit treats. Baby geckos can be offered small crickets and mealworms daily.

You can only feed your cresties with baby food purees and fresh fruits only as a treat. If you use baby food read the below section on fruit smoothies and replace blended fruits with the babyfood to create a more balanced homemade gecko diet. Feeding insects to baby crested geckos. As a treat provide a variety of insects including gut loaded recently fed crickets mealworms and waxworms.

This is because they have all the nutrients that your baby cresties need for healthy growth. Baby food alone should never be fed to a crested gecko. Baby food tends to be made primarily from pureed fruit which after all is what you will find the higher quality complete crested gecko foods. Sweet baby foods such as peach banana or apricot can be mixed with the crested gecko diet and offered as a treat.

It is best to use commercial crested gecko food for baby crested gecko. Baby crested geckos usually are able to eat small crickets that measure between inch to inch depending on the size of your baby crested gecko. You can introduce insects to the diet of your baby cresties around a month after hatching. However things aren t quite that easy.

Not only do baby foods often contain a lot more sugar that crested gecko food but they also typically lack the protein included in repashy or pangea foods. Put food in the enclosure 24 48 hours after hatching just in case they are hungry but don t be worried if they don t eat for several days. This is because crested geckos can refuse other food after eating fresh fruits.