Possible Healthy Way To Put Weight On A Gecko

LEOPARD1

LEOPARD1

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OK.
I like learning from old fashioned research and positive and negative experience...

LG =8 GMs
Daily for 1 1/2 months two good sized gut stuffed dubias followed by one wax worm a day. I don't make my Herps contort their necks to swallow. Good Size though.

LG=14.5 GMs taken to exotics vet. Perfect Health. Big Bill.

Now I have only kept venomous snakes extensively, this was my second LG.

I apologize in advance if that's normal weight gain:)
 
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acpart

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Different geckos gain weight at different rates. I have had leopard gecko clutchmates that were 15 grams apart in weight after a few months even though both were eating well. Your best bet is the following:
--feed each gecko as much as it will eat, preferably with several different type of feeders. The most common feeders for leopard geckos are dubia, mealworms, super worms, crickets with some people adding silkworms and hornworms
--avoid or minimize waxworms which are very fatty
--with juveniles that size, feed daily and expect regular poops
--at about 25 grams or so, the poops get less frequent and larger and the gecko can probably now be fed every other day.

Aliza
 
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KevinAndSquirtTheGeckos

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My lizards had a little episode with my cat, and they both got hurt, but lived. They wouldn't eat for a while, so I mixed some of their vitamin powder with baby food (apples and pears) and put it in a syringe. Put a drop at a time on the nose, and the geckos instinct will be to lick it.
 
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