Alternative Diets

[Reptiluvr]

I know a lot of people feed their Phelsuma baby food, bee pollen, nectars. Has anyone tried these Rhacodactylus diets with Phelsuma? If it's sweet I would assume they'll eat it and if it's a complete balanced nutrition...has someone tried yet?

 

[BlakeDeffenbaugh]

I have use crested gecko diet because I have it for some cresteds but I've been told gargoyle diet would be better. Also a few people have told me that fruit based yogurt is great for them. . .lots of calcium.

 

[baugh]

i have used the crested gecko diet and repashy two part diet (mango flavor) and niether has worked very good for me.

i have heard that clarks diet works pretty good but i have never tried it.

phlesumax is supost to work good too but have not tried it.


i have had the best luck with baby food mixed with either repcal or zoo med day gecko diet.

 

[kozmo]

i have had good luck with multiple two part nectar flavors by Repashy. my standingi love the stuff.

 

[baugh]

kozmo have you tried the mango?

 

[kozmo]

Yup, I have like 10 or so of the flavors and I just select them at random to keep it varied for all my Rhacodactylus so whenever feeding time comes around I put some in a dish for the standingi as well and they always eat it, in fact they usually eat it better than some of my Rhacs do.

I feed crickets as well, but I hate crickets, they stink, they get loose, the diets are so much easier, my Rhacs get the diets exclusively but the standingi get crickets on occasion because when I bought them they had been raised so far on crickets and the repashy diets so i wanted to keep it the same.

 

[baugh]

if you dont want to feed crickets you could feed them phelsumax. ive been told thats a complete diet for phelsuma.

 

[kozmo]

i was told the same thing about the repashy superfoods.

 

[lessthantito]

I dont have too much of a problem w/ any of my Phelsuma eating the repashy 2 part diet and baby food and my Standingi love it the most I think

 

[baugh]

i have heard that the larger species like it more than the smaller species. i do not keep any of the larger phelsuma so i do not know if thats true or not.

my seippi loves all baby foods but my comorensis do not really like either baby food or repashy diet. i offer it anyway but i mainly feed crickets to both.

 

[Stickytoe]

So far, I've tried the Repashy diets with P. klemmeri and P. laticauda. Both go for it immediately. I have tried the peach and mango flavors with equal success. I also offer them lateralis roach nymphs and crickets.

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[cliff_f]

I feed mine Peach yogurt and they really like it.

 

[DCReptiles]

All my phelsumas recieve repashys diet. ALl of my species lvoe it jsut as much as the others, you cant say a larger species likes it mroe then a tiny species, becuase the 2 species are completly different sizes and have different sized bodies and stomachs. So my klemmeri eat a half bottle cap my grandis pair will eat 3 full bottle caps. So i do not have to supplement my crickets with calcium and vitamins, i put a small amount of vitamins and calcium with d3 in the food becuase crickets shake off the vitamins and calcium very quickly. BY doing this i know that my geckos got their supplements. Not only do i supplement i also use uva/uvb lighting with full spectrum lighting. Here is my geckos diets

Day 1
Repashys base mixed with apricot/guava/peach

Day 3
crickets

Day 5
repashys base mixed with apricot/guava/peach

day 7
crickets

 

[lessthantito]

sounds a like like what I do DC I usually go every other day t every 3 days between feedings and I like to switch so they don't get too tired of one kind of food

 

[Knobtailman]

You can use diets instead of crickets for day geckos?

 

[lessthantito]

yes Phelsuma can be raised on a diet but most of us like to give them crickets/roaches 1-2 times a week, all of my Phelsuma recieve babyfood mixed w/ the repashy diet and all of them clean the dish from my grandis to my v-nigra cormoraegrandensis who I thought would be pretty picky