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Will leopard geckos eat some kind of comercial pre-made food like freeze dried crickets or some other food specially formulated for leopard geckos? If so what kind?
Thanks
*~*elcheal*~*
5 frogs
2 guinea pigs
1 springer spaniel
2 hermit crabs
-new froggie eggs yay!!!-

Nope ... they like it wiggling...
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2.5.1 Leopard Geckos
0.1 Ball Python
0.1 Okeetee Corn Snake
1.0 Blair's Phase Gray Banded Kingsnake
0.0.2 Crested Geckos

Some leos might eat it, but it's really not the healthiest option for them. Be careful about what you see marketed in the petstore. These companies will flat out lie on their labels.
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5.6 leopard geckos

chickabowwow

They're really expensive and not a good choice. I think some one here, i won't mention her name, started feeding her leo one of the "gutloaded" dead crix in a bottle and her leo ended up dying from MBD. She didnt' know and honestly didn't mean for it to happen.

The food stinks sooo bad anyways, theres no point.

Thanks for the warning about it, I'll just get live crix.
*~*elcheal*~*

Hey Snarks, long time no talk . How are your critters doing? Mine are growing like weeds. I think you were talking about me in your post. I posted this a while back regarding the canned crickets.

From my own experiences and in my own opinion, I STRONGLY advise NOT using the canned food. My reasons are:

1. You cannot gutload the food.

2. They are very boring for your leo.

3. They loose many of the vital nutrients after they have died, I do not have proof but I have been told by many people.

4. Unless you freeze them, one can should only be kept for 3-4 days (I have had them mould that fast). When I first started them, I e-mailed the distributor about them going moldy so fast. Their response was, “would you eat a can of tuna if it had been in the fridge that long?” (I swear to God).

5. They are very expensive, well at least I paid $10 a can.

6. Your one leo will never eat them before they go bad.

7. When I froze them they always became freezer burned.

8. I started to keep them on hand in case I ran out of live food, I became lazy and used them as a staple diet.

9. My leo became so used to them he stopped eating live food.

10. My leo, EXTREMELY slowly, stopped eating and EXTREMLY slowly and painfully died of MBD (still not 100% sure it was MBD that was the vets diagnosis, but I am sure it had to do with how unhealthy canned crickets are). He died just under one year from when I started using the canned food.

It's your own choice, this is just my personal experience. I believe feeding the canned crickets was my biggest mistake, if there was anything I could have done different with Rex (RIP), that would be it. I would recommend using sand before I would recommend using canned food.

I also tried the freeze dried crickets with no luck what-so-ever. Rex wouldn't go near them.

Lisa
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0.1 Hypo Leopard Gecko
0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko
0.1 Blizzard Leopard Gecko
1.0 Albino Pacman Frog
1.0 Lovebird (Tony)
1.0 Elkhound Cross (Otto)
0.1 Malamute Cross (Paris)
6.0 Bettas

Here are my little monkeys at 2 months old. I don't think I have seen pictures of your(s) Snarks.

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0.1 Hypo Leopard Gecko
0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko
0.1 Blizzard Leopard Gecko
1.0 Albino Pacman Frog
1.0 Lovebird (Tony)
1.0 Elkhound Cross (Otto)
0.1 Malamute Cross (Paris)
6.0 Bettas

this picture was taken at about three months old

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0.1 Hypo Leopard Gecko
0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko
0.1 Blizzard Leopard Gecko
1.0 Albino Pacman Frog
1.0 Lovebird (Tony)
1.0 Elkhound Cross (Otto)
0.1 Malamute Cross (Paris)
6.0 Bettas

HEY!!
eheh i was talking about you but didnt' want to mention your name, Rex was a really sad story and it shouldn't happen again.

I only have a pic of my little boy, he's being a bloody Bugger. He's more interested in escaping his cage when i open it than eating...he's digging away right now at tile...

Anyhue hope everything is well, yours have grown! i remember seeing the first posts, they're gorgeous too.

The tang looks like an abberant to me!

I love the markings on his head. I'm terrible with all the different morphs. They're my little buddies, that's all that matters to me.
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0.1 Hypo Leopard Gecko
0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko
0.1 Blizzard Leopard Gecko
1.0 Albino Pacman Frog
1.0 Lovebird (Tony)
1.0 Elkhound Cross (Otto)
0.1 Malamute Cross (Paris)
6.0 Bettas

yah i don't care what the look like, they're just sweet and fun pets.

I honestly prefer spots i love orange around the black spots on yours, its so vibrant

Thanks , unfortunately they are still pretty skiddish so I haven't been able to handle them much. They still wave their tails in the air like they're about to attack . It is funny to watch but I'm still pretty nervous handling them.

I love spots, but I will always have a soft spot for patternless leos. Poor old Rex was a patternless . When I first got him almost five years ago I guess he would have been kinda rare. I thought he was pretty ugly at first. He was just so easy to handle I couldn't resist. He was very naughty as well, in the pet store the first place he crawled was my boob. He wouldn't let go of my shirt, so I had to get the sales person to get him off, lol how embarrassing.

The carrot coloring on your guys tail is awesome as well.

Lisa
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0.1 Hypo Leopard Gecko
0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko
0.1 Blizzard Leopard Gecko
1.0 Albino Pacman Frog
1.0 Lovebird (Tony)
1.0 Elkhound Cross (Otto)
0.1 Malamute Cross (Paris)
6.0 Bettas

ahahh that's so cute.

well lets see, you got yours after i got my little guy. I guess Yummys age to be around 5-6 months by now. And he was super skiddish till about... 4-5 months. He's just had a ridiculous change, before he'd duck for cover once i'd walk by and freak out at any noises but now he'll scratch at the glass till i open it and then just walk out onto me. Annoying when you're trying to sleep though

Yours will calm down, i think there's just an age where they realize you won't eat them and they're big enough comparatably to you that they're not scared anymore.

"i think there's just an age where they realize you won't eat them and they're big enough comparatably to you that they're not scared anymore." I honestly think one of them would like to eat me. She gives me that look sometimes and my hand is out of there.

I remeber haveing Rex in my bedroom, what a little pain in the butt. During shed time was the worst. Not to mention the chirping crickets. Thankfully mine are now in my living room .

I do hope they all settle down around me, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Lisa
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0.1 Hypo Leopard Gecko
0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko
0.1 Blizzard Leopard Gecko
1.0 Albino Pacman Frog
1.0 Lovebird (Tony)
1.0 Elkhound Cross (Otto)
0.1 Malamute Cross (Paris)
6.0 Bettas

Here is my husbands favorite tang of our group just because he loves the spots on her....lol

she has very nice colors, I really like the dark tang
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0.1 Hypo Leopard Gecko
0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko
0.1 Blizzard Leopard Gecko
1.0 Albino Pacman Frog
1.0 Lovebird (Tony)
1.0 Elkhound Cross (Otto)
0.1 Malamute Cross (Paris)
6.0 Bettas

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2 White's Treefrogs
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0.0.2 Red Eared Sliders
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