Mike,

I'm not quite sure what you mean about the all crix diet cresteds growing bigger. Yours have gotten to a bigger size faster. The female I posted a pic of is still growing, and will continue to grow even after breeding. I know this because I have seen it in my other females. The same holds true for leopard geckos and bearded dragons, thay will all continue to grow more even after being bred for the first time. Honestly, I don't know the exact age of most animals I hold back for breeding. I just wait until they are what looks to be a healthy breeding size, and group them up.

"So there is nothing wrong with any of the methods."

I'm gald to see you finally feel that way. I'm not concerned with which diet results in quicker growth rates. Your results show that they have quicker growth rates with a cricket based diet. I'm happy to get my geckos to a healthy breeding size within a year on a non-prey diet. I have done that and will continue to do that. It's just an alternate husbandry method for people such as myself who want to deal with crix as little as possible. The only herps that I have that eat crix are my baby beardeds. My adults eat a mostly plant based diet supplemented with superworms, and my leopards get mealworms exclusively. Anyway, that's just what I prefer.




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