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feeding

newticus Mar 30, 2005 10:02 AM

Is there anything i can do to encourage feeding? I got 3 cresteds at a show in Feb. 2 are together in a 10gal and the smallest is by itself in a 5.5gal. The two together are growing and healthy and eating almost all of the CGD i put in the tank. The one on it's own has not grown much if at all. It looks really skinny. i can sometimes see it's ribs and it's tail is really thin. i give it CGD and it eats it but only about a few licks. I can see where it's licked the diet off its dish. I don't generally feed crix because the tank is on it's end and it has a wire lid that the crix can get out off and the last crix the gecko ate it threw up.
so is there anything i can do to encourage feeding? This might be stupid, but might it do better with another gecko in with it? the two together are doing so well. I also don't want to use baby food if possible, it seems like a major task to switch it back to CGD.
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- Melanie

2.0.0 cats
0.0.3 crested geckos
1.2.2 leopard geckos
1.0.0 Bernese mountain dog
1.1.1 red ear sliders
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0.0.1 chilean rose tarantula
1 south american cichlid tank
2 planted tanks with dwarf cichlids and platies

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kozmo02 Mar 30, 2005 11:45 AM

i would take it to a vet and get it checked out, or at least take a fresh stool sample and have it analyzed, if it is losing weight and eating like you say it is, then it may have an internal parasite, in which case you would probably want to have the others looked at, even though they are growing they could still have parasites and just be handling it better.

as babies grow its best to keep them all seperate to avoid competition for food and they grow much faster in most cases. i would recommend giving them dusted crickets in combination with the CGD though, the live food may encourage feeding where the CGD probably would not.
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