Why'd he do that?

[mbetournay]

I left some banana baby food for my white-lined gecko to try....and he did. I took it out of the terrarium, then went in an hour later to check on him and found traces of the food on the glass and on top of his cave. It looked the same as it did before he took it, so I'm not sure if he threw it up or if he was just holding it without digesting and just spit it out.

 

[qiksilver]

Are you sure he didn't just step in it and then track it around the cage?

 

[zack]

does it look like a trail or is it all in one spot cuz he might have just walked through it

 

[mbetournay]

He definitely didn't walk through it. I could tell he had licked some out of the bowl, but then he went to the other side into the plants. I took the dish out then, and then later I saw a little smear on the glass and a big blob on top of his cave.

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

He may well have regurgitated it...especially if it's something that he's not used to eating.

 

[mbetournay]

That's what I was thinking but I wasn't quite sure. It's definitely the first time he's tried it. And I didn't see any other signs that he may be sick.

 

[Saille]

I don't bother with babyfood, but mine all eat the Crested gecko diet (as well as their normal insect staples of crickets, roaches and various worms) and have never regurgitated it.

 

[Sinosauropteryx]

Fruit important?

I always try putting all natural applesauce (the stuff with no preservatives - I forget the brand name) on a small plastic orange dish whenever I give my white-lined gecko Pepe his crickets but he never seems to eat it. I have also tried mushed banana and peach with water but he won't touch that either. Does the Repashy Crested Gecko Diet really make that much of a difference? And could Pepe possibly get by without any fruit at all? I'm wondering because I have heard that, aside from bugs, nearly all members of Gekko seem to eat fruit at some time or other but so far Pepe just ignores it.

 

[Saille]

You know, Gekko Vitattus seem to go thru phases. I find that mine eat the fruit/Repashy CGD when the weather warms up, so it could be a seasonal thing?
My littlest Male, Itchy, went for months just preferring insects, but I put the CGD in there anyway, because the bugs will gutload themselves on it. Now, I find that 3 out of my 4 White LIneds, will eat it, the female seems to like it best of all.
The crickets and roaches I feed to my Tokays have access to it as well, but I haven't had my Tokays long enough to notice if they are in fact eating the CGD that is in their cage.
But either way, its a good thing to have in there for the bugs to gutload themselves on just in case.

 

[Sinosauropteryx]

Is Repashy worth it?

But are they more likely to go for that than they are the mushed fruit and applesauce I give Pepe, or does it make a difference? I'm thinking the Repashy stuff was designed for lizards so it couldn't hurt to try. I just want to know if it will be worth it.

 

[Saille]

Yes, I find it worth it because if the lizards don't eat it directly, then it is a healthy gutload for the insects that the lizards do eat. I don't bother with babyfood or mashed fruit becuase it goes "off" quickly (also, babyfood tends to lack many essential nutrients and minerals) . THe Repashy CGD, you can mix as much or as little as you want so its convenient and not much ever goes to waste at all.

 

[Sinosauropteryx]

Repashy and crickets

Ah, OK. If when you mean "goes off" you mean it goes bad or moldy, then I can see it becoming a good investment. I get tired of scraping moldy green applesauce off my plastic dish nearly every day. The crickets I give Pepe have their back legs clipped off (but not pulled) and are put in a clear high-rimmed dish so that he has all of his bugs together whenever he wants them instead of having to chase them throughout the tank, so they wouldn't be able to benefit much from the Repashy food if it were put on a seperate dish, but atleast it would be there. Maybe I could put it in the cricket dish...? Would that work?

 

[Fantom6]

our smallest whiteline(Pip) will not eat crickets at all. I think he is afraid of them. when he and his little brother were born we found his brother had been eaten by crickets very small ones and Pip seen it. i think thats the reason he won't eat them. he loves mango and strawberry yogurt but anything else he will not eat. So experiment and see whatthey will eat and have fun with them.

 

[Sinosauropteryx]

Pepe likes his crickets

Heh I wish Pepe had that problem (well, maybe not that exact problem, but...). He goes after the largest crickets with a fervor that makes it difficult to exact a limit on how many I give him. He'll finish off whatever I put in his dish every single night and sometimes even as soon as I put the dish in the tank. Most of the time he won't let me watch him eat but there have been times when I put the dish in the tank with four large crickets in it and I come back in a few minutes to find it empty. The crickets would have gotten their back legs clipped and the rim would have been too high and too slippery for them to escape, which only leaves one conclusion. Pepe's biggest eating record currently stands at four large crickets and three waxworms. I swear he would go after a superworm if I let him but I don't want him to choke on it. Those things can put up a fair fight when something grabs them.

But yeah, that problem with the crickets eating baby lizards - and I have heard it can happen to adult lizards too - is exactly why I always use dishes for my lizards unless I am going to feed them by hand. If something like that ever happened to me, I don't know what I would do (other than hate myself for it).