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I feed all my Cresteds their CGD/ GGD dry in a dish. I have been doing it this way for almost a year now. Anyone have any good reasons why I shouldn't? Anyone else do it this way? They eat it right up, and I have almost zero waste as there is no hardened gecko food to scrape off the dishes in the morning.

Genevieve
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2.10.20? Crested
1.1.3 Gold Dust Day
0.1.0 Presa Canario

I sold a baby to a nice old gent last year, and gave him a small bottle of the CGD with baby. I recently checked on him, and he'd had 3 adult cresteds he'd purchased from someone else last year that he'd only been feeding crix to. I told him that wasn't a balanced diet, comparable to feeding a kid hot dogs but nothing else, and convinced him to feed the CGD. When I visited him again a few weeks ago, he told me the adults wouldn't touch the CGD paste, but when he put it in dry, they cleaned it up! I told him I'd be afraid they'd choke on it since he doesn't provide a water dish, but apparently (so far)they are fine! I'd love Allan Repashy's input on this one, maybe I'll ask him on his forum...
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Terri
4:8:5 crested geckos: Popcorn, Goldfish, Harley, Bear, Big Red, Olive, Smudge, Blackie, Belle, Brilliant, Tina, Brick, Tony, Kermit, WildFire, WildSpatter-Spots-to-Spare & Randi(y)

Mine love the stuff! I see them at night down there cleaning out the dishes all the time, and like I said, no wasted, caked on, dried out diet in the morning.

Sometimes mine have water dishes, sometimes they don't. I have been starting my hatchlings straight on the powder for about six months now. I do give them the GGD, not CGD, but they are growing like little weeds. They are so used to the powdered diet that they wouldn't even eat some spare baby food I had lying around.

What is Allen's forum?

Thanks,

Genevieve
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2.10.20? Crested
1.1.3 Gold Dust Day
0.1.0 Presa Canario

Allen's wesite forum, as beautifully designed by Anthony Caponetto, is http://www.forums.repashy.com/
Allen being Allen Repashy, who formulated the GGD and CGD among others. I too feed the babies, up to 1 year old, the GGD, but also tiny crix dusted with the GGD to reinforce the idea that that's what food tasted like.
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Terri
4:8:5 crested geckos: Popcorn, Goldfish, Harley, Bear, Big Red, Olive, Smudge, Blackie, Belle, Brilliant, Tina, Brick, Tony, Kermit, WildFire, WildSpatter-Spots-to-Spare & Randi(y)

Does anyone else do this? Is there any reason why this wouldn't work, or shouldn't be done?

Most of my gecko maintenance time is spent either mixing up CGD/GGD or cleaning out dry residue from dishes... if feeding it dry works, that would make gecko feeding a 30 second procedure.
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0.1.0 Rhacodactylus Ciliatus "Jebus"
0.0.1 Rhacodactylus Auriculatus "Boo"