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Hello everyone, I recently have an extra 10 gallon tank my one of my Ball Python's grew out of. I was kind of curious how much and what do you usually feed your Leopard Gecko in a week. Thanks. Please let me know if your Leopard is an adult or a little guy.

geckos when little will eat more as they grow and become adult they eat less .
everyone has there own way of feeding though
i feed every day ,
but usually i only put about 3-5 crickets in the cage making sure its the right cricket side for the gecko
also coating with calcuim , vitamins too apart of the cricket feeding .
but you can feed mealie worms i feed both my geckos love them.

We feed only crickets, our adult eats 3 "large" every 3 days, around here at an independent store that is $.08 a cricket. (and a 30 min drive each way, but she cares about her stuff.)

When they are younger, you run into the problem that they are growing and need extra food, but might not be able to move to a bigger size cricket. (I'm sure something like this happens in snakes.) So for your first 9 months on average you will have periods where you might be feeding 8 or 9 crickets daily because they are just between those cricket sizes. A few more weeks and then you are back down to say 4 of the next size up daily.

Don't forget to factor in cricket food and vitamin powder, but I think we spend around $10-$15 yearly for all of that, but if that makes a difference.

Personally, once they get to adults, save for the electricity, they are very cheap pets and too much fun. Hope this helps.
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I feed our all the meal worms it will eat every 4 days, big, healthy and no problems yet, usually she takes 7-8 worms at each feeding.
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