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My general manager told a customer to give her sick leo STRAWBERRIES. Has anyone ever heard of that!? Or am I just losing my brains??
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STRAWBERRIES??!!?? WHAT THE BLOODY...!!! Strawberries to a carnivorous reptile? Are you serious that you heard your manager correctly? Because I never heard anyone feeding strawberries to leos. Peach baby food are occasionally given to other reptile hatchlings, but to leos? This is very odd, possibly the strangest thought I ever heard. If this manager is really serious about this and not joking, then he/she shouldn't be in his/her job position. Leopard geckos are pure carnivores, and they'll refuse any vegetable matter, although they may swallow a piece of grass accidentally along with a insect out in the wild. No care sheets or books have infos about feeding leos any fruit or veggie matter.

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I don't know the nutritional facts about strawberries, but if they are good, there is no reason a leo shouldn't eat them. If you can get a leo to eat nutritious vegetation, that's great, it should do no harm. The vast majority of leos will not eat any vegetation though, which is why it's never mentioned. In a book called "Lizard Care A-Z" (or something like that), it suggests to offer any lizard species vegetation, regardless of natural diet, just to add a little nutritional value. Of coarse, for carnivorous or insectivorous species, you wont want to offer too much.
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strawberries are high in vit. c and should be fed only occasionally to omnivorous herps.. i don't think that strawberries could cure any sickness. but i agree they wouldn't hurt.. but raspberries would have been a much better choice.. since they are high in calcium and fiber. but i sure hope that the manager told the customer not to make a routine of it since leos eat only bugs too much vegitation would be detrimental.

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I think I would take that under serious consideration. Some species of reptiles, I've been told, can actually have kidney failure if they eat fruit. So, be careful and investigate first.

Now, I will admit that on occation I do give my geckos a lid of fruit baby food (but there is rice cereal and other stuff in there too), but never any thing based on acidic fruit.

Oh yea - a manager at a certain PetCo actually breaths into the cricket/fish bags - as if the crickets can survive breathing inher carbon diaoxide for very long! At least the fish have some oxygen in the water. It just goes to show you how PetCo trainged their employees 8 years ago when she started out. Now, she refuses to change her ways...
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Exhaled air from a human does not have that much less oxygen than atmospheric percentage. The human lung is not as effecient as many believe. So a person blowing the headspace into a bag is probably adding the same percentages as the little compressor that a store might use. Unless the store is licensed in O2 such as for export they probably are just adding "normal" air. The headspace of 1 inch in a mason jar has enough O2 for a betta to survive for 1 week (just an example for thought)