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How to get a female fattened up after la

DarienD Mar 23, 2008 08:34 PM

I have a couple female sunglows that just layed eggs, and are pretty thin compared to what I have seen in the past. What is a good way to get them really fattened up? One is only 32 grams.

Just to let you know, the male got in with them, I did not purposely breed them at this weight.
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sport72186 Mar 23, 2008 09:44 PM

i would try to feed them a small live pinky..
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SugarFox03 Mar 28, 2008 07:53 AM

I would be careful feeding pinkies to smaller geckos.

You can try wax or butter worms. They are pretty high in fat. There's also a recipe somewhere (I'll see if I can get find it) of a mush you can make up to feed to them via a syringe and putting some on the tip of their nose. That is supposed to plump them back up as well.
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