Will baby day geckos readily take a mixture of baby food or will they just accept pinhead crickets?
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Feeding Baby Day Geckos
seaneboyee
Aug 15, 2005 02:30 PM
Replies (2)
geckogirl72
Aug 15, 2005 04:33 PM
It depends on the species. My experience with P. standingi is that the babies will eat 1/4" size crickets within the first 5 days or so. I offer fruit baby food to them every day as well, but they only seem to eat it when I put it on my finger and they lick it off. Unless they are eating it and I can't tell b/c their tongues are so little.
Don't know if this will help or not.
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Lisa
1.0.0 P.m. grandis (Linus)
4.3.0 P. standingi (Toby & Kona and their 5 babies)
seaneboyee
Aug 15, 2005 04:58 PM
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for the feedback regarding your experiences. I currently have gold dust day geckos (Phelsuma laticauda laticauda). The two other female adult WC took the baby food mixture after a few days of being in captivity. It's one of those things where it's there and they were curious, started to lick at it and have been loving it every since! I guess it's one of those things where it's good to establish a routine.
