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At what age do most people go from feeding leos daily to skipping days. I read a few care sheets that said to feed babies daily, and adults could be fed every other, or every 2 days. None said what age to make the switch.
I have had bearded dragons that would eat, and like can o crickets. Does anyone have a leo that likes them, or any of the other zoo med canned food products. It is possible to feed live, and it would be done in most cases, but there might be situations where canned would be much easier.
I also saw packaged foods. Any leo's eat that stuff? Is it any good? Do they readily begin eating it in most cases, or is it a complete waste?
Last question for now. Would mealies left in a food dish on Friday night to be eaten Saturday morning work alright? Would it be ok, if this arrangement would work, to feed 6 days and not the 7th. At what age woudl this arrangement be acceptable?
In case you are wondering, weekend access won't be possible, so that is why I need to know. I could raise it at home until it could go without food on weekends, if it wouldn't be too long. My place of work wants an animal for a classroom. They were going to go out and catch frogs, until I said absolutely not. After some research I also saw most frogs would be too annoying to care for due to other factors involved (distance from sink being a major one).
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3.0.0 Bearded Dragons Woodrow, Dexter, Tehko (My first beardie Griffin who turned me crazy, and Erik my Rankins, who will remain a midget- deceased)
1.0.0 Cat- the regular variety (Dominic- fat cat)
0.1.0 Dog- Lab mix(Betty- escape artist extraordinaire)
1.0.0 Red Eared Slider (Franklin)

Another teacher? I have geckos in my classroom and they do fine on the weekends w/o food. Yes, you can leave mealies in the dish (sometimes they crawl out) and there may be a few left after a day or two. I have to admit I do go in on some Saturdays to do a quick feed and check...I have several wee-beasties in my room. You could go every other day after about 4-5 months if the gecko is putting on good mass. Don't do the can o' crickets, bad stuff. Live is what these guys need...besides the kids love to watch them attack crickets and mealies. Good luck.

My gecko very rarely come out of hiding during the day...Does yours do ? How does it work for you ? having a nocturnal creature in a classroom ? Do the kids handle him ? I'm asking because a teacher ask me recently if gecko make good classroom pets.
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Mizar 21
1.0 Collared lizard (Ganymede)
1.0 Leopard Gecko (Gethsemani)
1.0 Nerodia Fasciata (Serpentard)
1.0 rescued iguana
1.2 Cats

I'm not a teacher yet, but I will be. Right now i'm working in a daycare. They like to get classroom pets for the preschool kids. They really do love to drop food in for the turtle, and watch the snake eat fish. I could do an identical setup at my house and take it home for the weekends for some time if I bought it too young to leave it for the weekends. I have 2 extra 20 gallon tanks, so I could do one at my house and one there. In a 20 we could have 2-3, depending on what the expense is allowed to be.
As for the can o bug products, I don't think I would want to use that regularly. I was considering that more so as an option in case for a few days they didn't go out to get bugs. They could also be left for the weekend. I do agree that kids would be more interested in seeing it eat live food. As a primary diet, things you know were well fed and cared for before being fed are certainly preferable. It might also be easier for me if I could feed canned stuff if I had to take it home with me for a while on the weekends. I don't mind live, and i've done it before for my bearded dragons. Canned might be easier if I had to make identical set ups and bring it home with me for a while on the weekends.
I'll suggest it today and see how well it goes over.
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3.0.0 Bearded Dragons Woodrow, Dexter, Tehko (My first beardie Griffin who turned me crazy, and Erik my Rankins, who will remain a midget- deceased)
1.0.0 Cat- the regular variety (Dominic- fat cat)
0.1.0 Dog- Lab mix(Betty- escape artist extraordinaire)
1.0.0 Red Eared Slider (Franklin)

Please don't use it. A person on this forum lost her leo because of them. Hers became lazy and suffered from MBD, I use her as an example because she also didn't know and was a very caring owner and paid a lot for vets for a gecko that didn't make it. Plus they're expensive.

Lizards can go for about a week without food as long as they have water.

I also work at daycares (YMCA) and maybe you could suggest a mealworm colony. The kids would LOVE that, they could learn about the life cycles and metaphosis (sp) and bring in veggie scraps and then your leos will always have food
Just a suggestion, good luck