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Join Date: Mar 2011; Posts: 732; Share Tweet #2. All fruits, especially berries and insects, are crested gecko live food. These are a complication that not many owners report having but it’s still very … It is pretty easy to find millipedes native to the United States for sale on the reptile market. Any suggestions?

Mites. The Benefits of Having a Crested Gecko as a Pet.

Right off the bat the crested gecko as a pet has an advantage of availability and price over the gargoyle gecko.

Baby crested geckos do best in a habitat this size to keep them in closer proximity to their food, which promotes consistent feeding behaviour – crucial for healthy growth and development. Unfamiliar Environment. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Help! 4.0 out of 5 stars Repashy Crested Gecko Food. There not like others that eat insects they eat fruit mostly. Another reason for MBD is lack of vitamin D3 in crested gecko’s diet. For adults and babies place a shallow dish or a plastic lid in the cage with a teaspoon of calcium powder on it. Find a tub that he can completely submerge himself in, and fill it with warm water. The gecko will lick the calcium powder as needed. This product smells like bananas & mixes just as easily as the mango flavor. They never bothered the gecko, and even ate leftover crested gecko meal replacement when given the chance. Crickets and roaches are the best insects to feed your crested gecko, and they should be the primary insect staples you offer your pet. Tags: None.

Usually, the crested geckos hide inside their terrarium for protection. The ideal habitat dimensions for a hatchling to 6 month old crested gecko is 8x8x12”, or smaller than 2 gallons. This sucks because they just settled into their enclosure and started to finally eat. In addition, crested geckos are mostly nocturnal, so insects are another major food. Crickets, cockroaches, butterflies, insects, spiders and some other insects are the food for crested … This isn’t a normal condition and this usually doesn’t happen when they’re kept in a home or in a private place but it can still happen. Vitamin D3, or cholecalciferol. Can Crested Geckos get mites?

While crested geckos don’t normally have a lot of issues, they like every other animal and pet have a set of common issues that you need to be on the lookout for and that you need to watch for. Gerber baby food (pear, mixed fruit) is good too. Now that African millepedes are banned from importation, due to a mite they carried that threatened cotton crops, there are a few alternatives.

... Crested will only eat about 4 crickets a year the best food is crested gecko diet which is a powder you mix with bottled water. To protect themselves from predators, crested geckos use their teeth for self-defense. Leopard Gecko Vitamin/Mineral Supplement: For young geckos dust the feeder insects every other feeding or place a small feeder dish with supplement in it and some mealworms in the cage. If you only treat the infected pet, mites will reappear somewhere down the road. Severe MBD in a crested gecko MBD is a metabolic bone disease that causes soft bones and bone deformities due to inability to metabolize calcium, or mainly due to its deficiency in the diet.

The crested gecko (Rhacodactylus ciliatus) is one of the most hardy and attractive of all the captive-bred gecko species.Docile in nature, it has the ideal temperament for a first-time reptile pet. Locket. Geckos are now out of the tank in a safe quarantine tank. It is quiet, easy to care for, hypo-allergenic, affordable and doesn't take up a lot of space. Crested geckos are climbing animals and their bodies are well designed to do this so fruits are their main food.
The environment must be treated for successful eradication of snake mites.