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RE: Baby gecko dieing!!! Please help me feed

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Posted by: Gordonious at Thu Dec 28 13:36:41 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Gordonious ]  
   

The last vet I went to had kept herps for years and was breading chameleons. I really trusted him and we talked with each other for a long time.

My Gecko's diet has been primarily meal worms. I have been told and have read a number of times that their staple in their diet should be crickets, but when a single cricket stays in her tank for two weeks and she can't catch it then I just can't leave them in their. She gets the occasional super worm to mix things up. It has been a couple of weeks since she has seen a wax worm, but I give her those as treats. She has also eaten a good amount of phoenix(sp?) worms because my roommate ordered some a while ago.

As far as the lighting stuff goes we won't have an answer to how much UV affects them for a while. Leo geckos are complicated because I believe most of the geckos evolved in forest being strictly nocturnal and these guys just wondered off into a sunny habitat. Even though they were now in an area that was move sunny they still usually only walk around at night when the sun isn't out. The thing that makes it most difficult though is that fact that I haven’t seen a wild caught leo gecko in my life. We are selectively breeding and messing around with the little animals, so even if a herpetologist or some other biologist did a study on wild caught geckos it may not even apply to our geckos. (they also keep changing lighting technology)

I've thought for a while now that the mentally challenged gecko possibility is pretty plausible. I brought Bala home with me for Christmas break and my Mom questioned her eye sight when we watched her hunt.



Jon

   

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