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So since I got a new crested yesterday I'm going to go out today to buy food. So here are a few questions.
1. Feeding a mix of fruit baby food/crested diet and crickets is good right?
2. With thte baby food/crested diet, what type of calcium should I mix in there? For my leos I just use the sandfire stuff, so I'll need to go get something new for Piper the crestie!
3. Is the crested diet better than fruit baby food (I think I know the answer to this already) Or can you mix the baby food with the diet?

I dunno, I just like to hear what other people use for their cresties. It's more personal than just going and readin care sheets. Okay gonna clean my room now, since I took down some tanks and moved geckos around, it's like one big mess in here. Thanks!
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-Kristen

0.10 Leopard Gecko (Buttercup, Beaker, Beauty, Blaze, Bubbles, Blinkers, Squiggles, Sandy, and two new girlies who are nameless at the moment)
1.1 Fat Tail Gecko (Bell and Bowser)
0.1 Deformed Leopard Gecko (Gimpy)
0.2 Leopard Geckos that lives at my boyfriend's house, but whom I still pay for food...lol (Dexter and our blizzard, Starlight!)
0.0.1 Crested Gecko! (Piper, it's kinda unisex right?)

Proud owner and operator of a Powerbook G4! Why use windows, when I can use Panther? It even sounds better.

>>1. Feeding a mix of fruit baby food/crested diet and crickets is good right?
That's fine...let me clarify though. If you are going to make a serious effort to get the crested to eat the CGD you should stay away from the baby food for now. Once they eat the CGD regularly you can try adding babyfood once and a while. Nutritionally, the CGD I light years ahead of any babyfood mix you can come up with. Although I have raised and bred cresteds on babyfood mixes alone(no bugs). As far as crix go, if you crested is eating the CGD regularly, you hav the choice of using bugs or not. If you decide to touse bugs also, I would highly recommend dust with the leopard gecko dust.

>>2. With thte baby food/crested diet, what type of calcium should I mix in there? For my leos I just use the sandfire stuff, so I'll need to go get something new for Piper the crestie!
The CGD already contains ALL the nutrients your crested needs. This is why it is best to mix the CGD with water as directed and not babyfood. And for the crix like I said use the leo dust (everytime you feed bugs) these two food item will offer all the calcium it needs. If it does ot accept the CGD after a few tries, Email me and I will give you the "recipe" for a babyfood mix I used to use.

>>3. Is the crested diet better than fruit baby food (I think I know the answer to this already) Or can you mix the baby food with the diet? Yes, answered in #1. You can mix the CGD with baby food, but it it not advised, as it will skew the ratio of nutrients in the diet. The CGD already has ingredients like banana powder and homey powder added to act as attractants.
If Piper does ot seems fond of the non-prey foods right now, by allmeans, go with a diet heavier on crix until it is bigger and try again.
good luck
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Bill DiFabio
Garden State Herpetoculture...website to follow...
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"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong." - Carl Jung

Thanks Bill! So my plan for today is just to run out and buy some of the cresie diet! Thank goodness for the leopard gecko dust! It's some good stuff! Thank again.
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-Kristen

0.10 Leopard Gecko (Buttercup, Beaker, Beauty, Blaze, Bubbles, Blinkers, Squiggles, Sandy, and two new girlies who are nameless at the moment)
1.1 Fat Tail Gecko (Bell and Bowser)
0.1 Deformed Leopard Gecko (Gimpy)
0.2 Leopard Geckos that lives at my boyfriend's house, but whom I still pay for food...lol (Dexter and our blizzard, Starlight!)
0.0.1 Crested Gecko! (Piper, it's kinda unisex right?)

Proud owner and operator of a Powerbook G4! Why use windows, when I can use Panther? It even sounds better.

Just mix as dierected. It says 2:1 water to powder. So for one cresty, you wasnt to mix a small amount. Like 1/2 table spoon of powder to 1 tablespoon water. If it seems to liquidy, just add a little more powder.
good luck

>>Thanks Bill! So my plan for today is just to run out and buy some of the cresie diet! Thank goodness for the leopard gecko dust! It's some good stuff! Thank again.
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>>-Kristen
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>>0.10 Leopard Gecko (Buttercup, Beaker, Beauty, Blaze, Bubbles, Blinkers, Squiggles, Sandy, and two new girlies who are nameless at the moment)
>>1.1 Fat Tail Gecko (Bell and Bowser)
>>0.1 Deformed Leopard Gecko (Gimpy)
>>0.2 Leopard Geckos that lives at my boyfriend's house, but whom I still pay for food...lol (Dexter and our blizzard, Starlight!)
>>0.0.1 Crested Gecko! (Piper, it's kinda unisex right?)
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>>Proud owner and operator of a Powerbook G4! Why use windows, when I can use Panther? It even sounds better.
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Bill DiFabio
Garden State Herpetoculture...website to follow...
Email Me
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong." - Carl Jung