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ok 2 day i traded in 2 of my 4 leos for 1 crestie and a cage but the cage had 2 crestis in it so now i have 1 (i was not goin to tell the guy cuz i think it is his folt plus i didnt figur it out untill i got home) n e ways i was wondering wat they eat i gave them small crix and hey loved them but i am pretty sure that they eat sum other stuff i just cant figue it out if u could let me no that would be great thanx

Try giving them some various kinds of fruit baby food. Mine like the yellow tropical fruit and plain banana. The tropical fruit is great because it's kind of jelly like, that makes it less messy. I put the food in a bottle cap and into their cage before I go to bed; they like to eat in the dark when nobody is around.

I read once that it is good to mix the fruit with meat baby food (turkey/chicken), but I don't do this because when I did, it turned into a black goo that nobody wanted to eat.

OK, crested geckos are pretty easy to take care of, but you really should have done your research BEFORE you brought one (or 2) home.
That said, cresteds are great little lizards and you will probably enjoy them very much.

There are great care sheets at www.pangeareptile.com, www.acreptiles.com/geckos_crested_basics.htm, and www.crestedlady.com which will give you a thorough grounding in the basics. The Rhacodactylus subforum here, the forums at the Pangea site, and the forums at Repashy's site all have a ton of info on them. Just go on and do a search for whatever you want to learn; most basic stuff is already well-covered and you will get good answers.

If you wound up with two, you probably need to separate them into 2 cages. Young geckos will fight if their size is different, and sometimes even if it's not. 2 males cannot generally be kept together, and if you have a male/female pair, you should definitely separate them if they are under 18 months old.

They will survive for a while on crickets, but when you feed them baby food, it needs to be supplemented with calcium and vitamins, and your crickets should be gutloaded. Keep them hydrated, especially if they are hatchlings or juveniles. I spray my enclosures down twice a day. They drink water from the wet surfaces after spraying. Don't let them get any hotter than 82 degrees for any length of time; it will kill them.

Good luck with your new geckos, and if you have questions that the care sheets don't answer, feel free to ask!

i am now feeding them small crix and bananna baby foood wit calcium and spary it 3 times a day but im going to keep them together.

OK, if you want us to answer your questions with useful answers, you need to answer some questions for us.
How old are these geckos? If you don't know, then how long are they? What kind and size of cage are you keeping them in? What's inside the cage? What substrate are you using? Are both geckos the same size? What temps are they at?

Look, did you read those care sheets? If all you're going to feed them is banana, I would guess you didn't, since I know those sites have common favorite baby foods on them. If you read them I apologize, but if you didn't, that's just darn lazy. You can keep young geckos together that are the same size, but if they start showing any signs of aggression, you need to separate them right away, not just when you happen to go buy another cage. With cresteds, bullying by cagemates can lead to tail loss or even illness or death of the weaker gecko.

I wish you the best of luck with your geckos, but it sounds like you're not too enthused about them. If they're under the right husbandry conditions, cresteds are very hardy and really a lot of fun to watch to boot. I hope I misread your posts and that you were just in a hurry or something. If so, my sincere apology.
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