Gecko not eating.

[Allee Toler]

I currently don't have a job, so spoiled rotten Giovanna is only receiving mealworms. But SHE doesn't like mealworms. Whenever she gets them she smells them, licks them, takes a nibble, then drops it after a couple chews.

I haven't received a paycheck in OVER two weeks. She hasn't EATEN in over two weeks. Not a SINGLE worm! And I only get food stamps for being 18 on my own. I need Worm Stamps!

Should I just force feed the little brat? BTW, my friend came over with a few supers about a week ago just to give her some nutrition, and she gobbled them up. So I know she's just not eating because it's mealworms.

I'm going to the store in a little bit to get some organic chicken baby food. I'm going to blend them together. She loves baby food. I got a stamp for one jar. Lol. So it's free.

I'm not looking for help on acquiring cheap supers, I simply need advice on how to get the nutrition back into her. It's bad enough she can't drink water on her own.

 

[Allee Toler]

Well. I blended all her vitamins, calcium, mealworms, multivitamin supplement with added vit-A (she needs it according to her vet, her body doesn't absorb it as easily as others), a little water, and a whole jar of chicken&Vegetable baby food.

Don't bash the mixtures, I called her vet, and she only needs what she eats in one week in the mixture, since she's not sick. Her only vitamin deficit is A, so I usually put it in the water I give her.

She ate it up. Ferociously. I was going to hand feed her, then just thought I'd let her try for the hell of it. She ate a whole teaspoon of it.!


A new question: Can she eat this mixture until I get her the superworms? Say in a month. She's got all her vitamins and protein, even her water, all mixed into one sludge. Would she be able to live off this? If she doesn't eat anything else? She never liked crickets to begin with anyways, she'll eat maybe 2 out of 10 I put in there.