Mac Snows misjudging distance

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Debbie7054

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My mac snow is terrible at judging distance and I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this too. She's a great feeder once she catches her prey but it takes her loads of goes to catch them. I've seen a few articles about it and it seems to be a mack snow thing so I was wondering how many others in the forum that have mac snows have noticed it in theirs?
 
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acpart

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A number of my geckos of all different morphs have this issue. Feeding can be slow some evenings. One thing that works is to put the gecko in question in the lay box/humid hide and put the feeders in there because there's a smaller space and they're more successful.

Aliza
 
bwoodfield

bwoodfield

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I've discussed this before. I believe it was Allee that stated that their eyesight isn't the same as ours. They're nocturnal creatures so it's designed to see at night not during bright light. If you have a red light on at night and watch them, you will probably notice a huge difference in how well they aim. I now feed Buffy at night when she is awake, usually right before I go to bed so the lights are off (except for the red light in her tank). I've noticed that if I have the white light on in the tank, for whatever reason, she has aiming/distance issues and sometimes doesn't even see the feeders. As soon as I turn the red light on and the white off she immediately sees the feeders moving around and has no distance or aiming issues.
 
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Debbie7054

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We've started feeding ours after lights out too I'll have to watch her tonight and see if it helpsthanks for that tip :eek:)
 
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Hardknox

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Pick up a red CFL party bulb from home depot for 5 bucks and put it in a standard lamp a few feet from the enclosure. You will be able to see them just fine and it will not bother their eyes.
 
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Debbie7054

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She loves crickets but finds it easier catching locusts and I've just managed to get hold of some roaches so she's been having those too. She won't even look at anything worm like.
 
Mardy

Mardy

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Crickets and roaches can be hard to catch. I have to pull hind legs off the crickets and a few legs off dubias roaches to help a couple of my leopard geckos. I've tried just dropping them in all natural with full legs, a couple of my leopard geckos would try once or twice and just go back into their hides. I think some of them you just gotta help them out a bit heh.

Dimming your lights may help, but chances are if you got one that isn't an ace at catching live prey, you may want to help them out by pulling some legs off them so they run a lot slower.
 
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