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since me and my wife are new to crested and i seen many words saying CGD? maybe explaining to what it's mean? thanks. we already know the basic care and feeding but willing to learn more to what is important to have for caring them. i will be ordering a tall cage from barrs/herpcages.com thanks.

It stands for Crested Gecko Diet, it's a formulated diet for the little guys and you can get it at pet's mart or petco or most reptile specialty stores.

thanks and i'll check into that. could any of you explain to me all about feeding the crested? i would like to learn about do and don't in feeding. or just tell me what to feed the gecko? thanks oh and our crested is a month old.

They do really well on CGD, and quite a few people here recommend feeding it exclusively (it's both inexpensive and good for them), though in my experience young ones like that *really* like their crickets and grow quickly when eating mostly crickets, so I'd probably either make both available or alternate feedings between the two, feeding every day at that age. Crickets need to be dusted with a vitamin/mineral supplement to complete their nutritional value, and must be gut loaded (feed the crickets) before being fed to your gecko. Gut loading the crickets makes them more nutritious, because any food in the crickets' stomachs gets passed on to the gecko.

If you're trying to get them to transition over to CGD from fruit baby food, the typical method is to mix CGD and baby food together and go with an increasing percentage of CGD at each feeding until it's pure CGD, no baby food. If you're trying to get them to eat CGD from a diet of only crickets, you can dust the crickets with CGD to get the gecko to associate that taste/smell with food.

Like any other reptile, when they reach adult size, they don't need to eat as often (I feed my adult every other or every third day).
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