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I have had my WC Gold Dust for about a month now and it has been eating fine up until about a week ago. This past Saturday, it laid a dud egg so now I know it's a female. She is still very active but I haven't seen her eat any crickets anymore. She will still drink water and run about the cage but I haven't seen her eat any crickets. Is it bad to leave crickets in the cage? They are very small ones so I doubt she's afraid of them but she will cross their path and not do anything to them. I'm thinking maybe she's just co-existing with them and doesn't want to eat them. Any ideas? I've also tried mealworms with no success. I also think since she's WC, she's not used to a lot of the foods I am presenting to her. We don't have much wild crickets and we definitely don't have mealworms. When I did see her eat crickets, I had to either kill them and leave them on a leaf or she was really hungry and just attacked it. Hopefully her appetite will pick up since laid that dud egg.

Don't know too much about gold dust geckos but I know that my female standings stops eating around the time she's going to lay. If your gecko only laid one egg, she may have another waiting to go. Also, is she in a shedding cycle? I also know that all my geckos will fast for a few days before their shed.

Have you offered her fruit baby food? Try some peaches and see if she eats. If she's still very active I wouldn't worry too much. She may be eating when you're not looking.

You also might want to take her to a good herp vet to check her out. If she really is wild caught, she might have some parasites that are taking from her appetite.

Good luck.
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Lisa

1.0.0 P.m. grandis (Linus)
4.3.0 P. standingi (Toby & Kona and their 5 babies)