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I was given a baby Mediterranean Gecko by a coworker. We have 12 pets at my house, because my daughter wants to be a Herpetologist when she grows up so they thought of us. We live in central Mississippi and my coworkers husband works for the state, he was inspecting sand that had come from the gulf coast and a baby gecko (about 1 1/8" long from nose to tail) was in the bag of sand. The sand was being prepared to make cement. It had been washed and filtered 2 times and bagged and shipped up here. We identified it in our field guide. It is still pretty cold here at night about 30 to 35 degrees and I am afraid that if we let it go it will die. It looks pretty lively, but will not eat. We got it Monday evening. I went topet smart last night and they sifted some pinheads out of their small cricket box for me, but the gecko want eat them. They might be too big, they are about the size of medium sized pinheads. I read online to try baby food. I thought I could smash up some crickets and mix them with baby food. He still would not eat I managed to put some on his snout and he licked it off, but I am afraid that if he does not eat more he will die. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

How big is it? Did you try tiny mealworms?

he is a little over an inch long from nose to tail. I tried baby food but he is not interested. The small crickets from petsmart are too big and the small meal worms are not much smaller than the gecko. He used the bathroom once and shed a small amount of skin. I left it in the cage and it was gone the next morning I'm guessing he ate it. We bought some pin heads today from millbrook cricket farm I have put a few in his cage so far he hasn't eaten any. It is supposed to be 29 degrees here tonight so letting him go is out of the question. I'm hopeing that if he gets hungry enough he will eventually eat. I guess being washed and sifted twice and put in a bag of sand and transported 200 miles has probably put him through quite a bit of trama. He does hold up his tail and hop around a bit and he seems pretty healthy. I am just worried because he hasn't eaten for over a week.