Baby Crested Gecko Food

If you use baby food read the below section on fruit smoothies and replace blended fruits with the babyfood to create a more balanced homemade gecko diet.

Baby crested gecko food.

It is best to use commercial crested gecko food for baby crested gecko. Not only do baby foods often contain a lot more sugar that crested gecko food but they also typically lack the protein included in repashy or pangea foods. Baby geckos can be offered small crickets and mealworms daily. You can introduce insects to the diet of your baby cresties around a month after hatching.

A well balanced crested gecko diet consists of. Female crested geckos can experience calcium crash after laying eggs. Accordingly you can provide these omnivorous species occasional fruit treats. Feeding insects to baby crested geckos.

Commercial crested gecko food which is a complete balanced diet. Plant based foods day geckos crested geckos and a few other species include fruits flowers nectar and similar foods on their menu along with the insects that carnivorous gecko species eat. This is because crested geckos can refuse other food after eating fresh fruits. Crested geckos eat small amounts of fruit in the wild in addition to insects.

The general guideline is to feed a good crested gecko diet cgd every other day with gutloaded dusted insects being introduced around a month after hatching if desired. The insects should be gut loaded and dusted with calcium and d3 powder. This powder can also be used to dust insects. Baby food tends to be made primarily from pureed fruit which after all is what you will find the higher quality complete crested gecko foods.

As a treat provide a variety of insects including gut loaded recently fed crickets mealworms and waxworms. You can only feed your cresties with baby food purees and fresh fruits only as a treat. Sweet baby foods such as peach banana or apricot can be mixed with the crested gecko diet and offered as a treat. Read up on proper supplementation and choose appropriate fruits to feed your crested gecko.

Baby crested geckos usually are able to eat small crickets that measure between inch to inch depending on the size of your baby crested gecko. This is because they have all the nutrients that your baby cresties need for healthy growth. Insects in general should be no bigger than the width of the gecko s head.