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I live in Israel and keep and breed crested geckos severals years. I recently got some new nice flame crested, that are about two months old. they only accept eating baby food, and don't put any attention to crickets. my others young that hatch in my home and are the same age eat crickets readilly. the new ones were imported from the USA. how can switch them to eat also crickets?

Leave a cricket or two in with the cresteds .Their natural instinct is to grab and eat anything that moves smaller than them.Some cresteds seem to take awhile to catch onto that.But once they do they cant resist.
Overall cresteds are very secretive about eating and are often distracted by your presense.Leaving a couple of crickets will get them over that.
Baby food is like candy to them due to all the sugars.This might be part of it as well.The urge to hunt isnt there is they are full ,socut back on the babyfood prior to feeding crickets as well. 3-4 days not eating wont hurt the cresteds.
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>>Their natural instinct is to grab and eat anything that moves smaller than them.

or in the case of one psycho gecko of mine, anything that moves regardless of size. he dives at the glass with mouth open every time i walk by the tank, and ambushes my fingers when i go in to change food/water, and he's only half-grown LOL

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4.1 snakes, 4.6.1 crested geckos, 0.1 gargoyle gecko, 0.0.2 red-eyed tree frogs, 2.0 devon rex cats, 1.0 betta, 0.1 sun conure, 1.0 lovebird

LOL!! Good thing they don't get bigger then they do or you'd have to wear teflon gloves just to put food in the cage!