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02-09-2010, 03:40 PM
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Viper gecko diet and cost?
I've been wanting to get a viper gecko for a while now, but i had a problem with the live foods, i have asked the question on this forum before, i don't want crickets, i've been down that road and its a smelly and noisy one. So i came up with another idea, i have a colony of roaches, Dubia to be exact, and i was wondering can i feed the baby roaches to the viper geckos as a stable diet? It wouldn't be their only food, because i believe in variety but it would be their staple.What do you guys think, I'm almost 100% sure but i want opinions and maybe experience.
Also one more question, i did i a little shopping or them a while ago they were still fairly expensive, about 70 for a pair i believe can someone give me a quote on the price they are now for single and pair, and maybe a source were i could purchase them at?
Thanks
Chris
P.S. only asking 2 questions and it looks like 2 paragraphs, i can sometimes write forever.
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02-10-2010, 09:38 PM
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Come on people i need opinions, any have any experience?
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02-10-2010, 10:51 PM
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Dubia roaches work very well as a staple for any species, provided you use the right size roach. Second, $70 isn't that expensive for a pair of geckos. I'm not totally sure what vipers are worth, but I think $70 is fair.
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02-12-2010, 12:35 PM
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When I find some available, I intend to use woodlice as a staple, flightless fruit flies, baby mealworms, and mini-mealworms for variety. I don't care for crickets either, they get too large for the species I'm keeping, and they escape and cause trouble. lol
Baby roaches should be fine, many keepers are using them instead of crickets now, and they're more nutritionally balanced than crickets.
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02-15-2010, 03:57 PM
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I'd add turkistan roaches to the diet, mainly because they are small roaches and will not outgrow your vipers the way dubia will.
Wood lice are easy to rear and will make a good addition to the diet but I wouldn't go all out on them. I might restrict them to 10% of the overall diet.
As for price, I've seen them from $20 on up to $88, so your $70 seems right about in there.
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02-15-2010, 04:21 PM
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Is your reason for restricting the woodlice their chitin, or some other factor? I understand their exoskeletons are quite high in calcium.
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02-15-2010, 04:26 PM
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No, they retain a lot of heavy metals, so taking care to restrict their diet to foods low in heavy metals would help this issue. Otherwise they are good feeders.
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02-15-2010, 04:29 PM
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Interesting, and a valid caution--thanks.
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02-15-2010, 04:41 PM
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discere et docere
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Not a problem, it used to be pretty common knowledge that woodlice were not staple feeder material, somehow it seems that info got lost.
Maurice Pudlo
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