What to feed tokays

[Jedibean]

I'm considering getting tokays. but I'm wondering what a good main diet is. Would hissers be acceptable?

 

[cricket4u]

I'm considering getting tokays. but I'm wondering what a good main diet is. Would hissers be acceptable?

It depends on the size of the hisser and your tokay. Always feed appropriate sizes. Variety is the key to good health.

 

[Jedibean]

So, would hissers and mealworms be a good main diet, maybe some pinkies for a treat?

 

[cricket4u]

So, would hissers and mealworms be a good main diet, maybe some pinkies for a treat?

Pinky-no way, melworms are not very healthy so it will be best avoid them or feed them as treats, Crickets, roaches, silkworms, phoenix worm, hornworms will be good variety.

 

[Jedibean]

That's curious, because I've heard from a lot of places that they can eat pinkies and fuzzies. But otherwise the nutrition and variety thing sounds right.

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

Pinkies are a poor choice as they are almost all fat and have very little other nutritional value at all. Most tokay are not very into eating worms (mealworms, etc). They tend to prefer insects that move around a bit more. Crickets, and various tropical roaches are your best bet. Hissers would work ok, but they have a tough chitinous shell and they're more expensive than most other species of tropical roach. So I'd go with something like dubia, lobsters, or lateralis. My tokays love all three.

 

[Tokayy]

So, would hissers and mealworms be a good main diet, maybe some pinkies for a treat?

No to the pinkie... Way to fat.. Not healthy for the gecko.

Meals worms yes its okay once and a while as well. Your ideal stable diet will be roaches or crickets. If you would like to swtich that up within the week like every few days some crickets, then other days some worms that is fine. But crickets are the best ideal stable diet.

When i say crickets, roaches are also associated.

 

[thehotchik1000]

Well gutloaded crickets and roaches. Well balanced healthy meal. No pinks. Fat fat fat is just not good. And I don't have a single tokay that will go after an mealworm. Mealies are in themselves impossible to gutload and hard to dust. Keep to the crix and roaches and you'll have a healthy animal.


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[liam.b]

I noticed no one mentioned locust/hoppers? I use them as a staple for my toks and they do very well on them

 

[Ozymandias]

I noticed no one mentioned locust/hoppers? I use them as a staple for my toks and they do very well on them

not alot of people in the US use them it's more of a European thing (and no i couldn't tell you why)

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

I noticed no one mentioned locust/hoppers? I use them as a staple for my toks and they do very well on them

As Roy mentioned, they're not really readily available here in the US. I'm not sure why either. My guess would be that they're considered an invasive species or something along those lines and as such not easy to ship from one state to another legally.

 

[liam.b]

Ah I see that's a shame reps seem to do very well on them just not a cricket sort of person hate the little things seem to get anywhere/everywhere haha

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

I don't like crickets either. I work with three different species of tropical roaches which I find to be far superior as feeders than crickets are.

 

[liam.b]

I've never tried roaches, I used to have a tokay that loved morios! But I tend to stick to locust

 

[Marauderhex]

No joke, mine is addicted to CGD. I tried it out after I got a tip from a friend that they liked it, and now Galactus will hold out for it. He knows I will cave within two missed feedings. Other than that, I try to feed dubia roaches, and very rarely, hornworms as treats.

 

[liam.b]

Haha nice, that's the reason I've never fed mine waxworms don't want them to get hooked! That and their chunky enough as it is.

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

I would be concerned about what the long term affects of that diet might be to tokay. They are opportunistic feeders and no doubt feed on some amount of fruit in the wild. However, they are not frugivorous and that may prove to have quite detrimental results in the end. Just because he'll eat it, doesn't mean it's good for him. My dog would be happy to eat a chocolate cake despite the fact that chocolate is toxic to dogs. Lots of reptiles love waxworms despite the fact that it gives them fatty liver disease. I'm sure that you get the point. Personally, I would do what I could to get him off of the cgd and onto appropriate whole live feeders.

 

[Marauderhex]

I'm working him onto roaches, slowly, but surely.

 

[Ozymandias]

What species of roach are you using? If your using a pecies like dubia you might have a little trunks switching over because that tend to stay still alot of the time and don't stimulate the geckos feeding response.

 

[billewicz]

A Goliath Horn Worm now and again is quite a treat. Most of my Tokay will take crickets over roaches. Some are picky, some are not.

As for hissers, they do not seem to breed fast enough, with enough offspring to match the output of most other feeder roaches.

Good luck and have fun,

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