[reptilegirl64]

WOW! Sounds like a few of you are really busy with lizards. I'm a lizard person and i have a smsall amount o fadvice to give.

Make sure the lizard's habitat is moist.

research stuff about the lizard.

make sure you have some sort of source of heat.

feed them crickets (you can buy cricket food at your local petco/ pet smart store. orange cubes work well.)


you can do soooooo much more for them. i havent been able to spend as much time with my lizards lately, soooooooo one of them escaped. he was a little guy, too. well, good luck on with your lizards... and happy keeping!!



(p.s. this is kinda off topic, but what do you know about dissection fo frogs? do you believe in it? i dont. gtg!


-nelly

[syfx]

Just a little tip, if your crickets are too fast, pop them in the fridge for five minutes, slows them down no end

[jmnumass]

ive been keeping leopards for a few years now and meal worms are a great staple diet for leopard geckos they come in many quantities and are readily available. another option to fatten her up is to use waxworms but dont feed them as a constant diet because they are like the doughnuts of the reptile world. They are a very fatty food and leopards readily eat them. Hope that helps

[Libby]

It sounds like you are being awesome to your new friend and that she is lucky that you found her.

My gecko wasn't very good at catching crickets, so I told her that hunting was a precondition for eating, and that she needed to toughen up. After a week of refusing to catch her food, and missing it she got hungry and started pouncing on them. Before then I had to pull the back legs off the crickets so she could catch them.

I don't know if the pep talk helped, but you could always try it. Also, gut loading the worms/ crickets for a day or so should help with the nutritional stuff. I use those orange cube things you have and a piece of potato or fruit. Right before feeding time, the food can be shaken gently in a container with 50:50 vitamin powder, calcium D3 powder.

Your vet and the internet probably already has given you tons of information about that. Good luck with Sugar.

[gizmo143]

My Leopard Gecko gizmo, just recovered from eye infections/problems and during that time, he wouldn't hunt for himself. i had to handfeed him. now, his eyes are fine, he's out and about now and hunts for himself. It may just be that his eyes are messing up his focus, or he may just not be the greatest hunter
either way, you seem to be doing an amazing job helping this great little lizard! Great job!