Share your feeding stories!

[Keeboard]

Here's a thread where you can share funny feeding stories! Once, I think my leo Sunset might have actually bit her own tail (don't worry, no wounds) when hunting because it moved! Not entirely funny because she might have wounded it or made it fall off. She also sometimes wiggles the tip of her tail while hunting for several seconds, even when she doesn't see a cricket! She's struck at things other than crickets when hunting (not missing food).

 

[muffin_song]

Scooter has been a light eater lately (Disclaimer: I'm pretty sure this is seasonal, and she has since eaten). The other day, I put in a dubia dusted with calcium. I put it on its back so Scooter would have a good shot at it. She stared at it for a long time, before eventually proceeding to lick the calcium off the dubia. She eventually wandered away without eating the bug. The dubia got to go back into the feeding bin to gutload some more and die another day. :roll:

 

[thepianoguy]

lol.

last sunday, leonardo with resting on a piece of wood hide and i drop a cricket in front of her face(like down on the substrate) and she saw it, wiggling its tail, and jump off the wood right at the crickets! unfortunately, lol the cricket jumped away right when her mouth kissed the paper towel.....

another time leonardo saw a cricket and just lye on the ground, almost open her mouth and the cricket run into the mouth and she just gobbled it down.......how the heck.....lol

 

[IC_Spots]

Well I don't really have any funny stories as of yet to share, but I've only had my girl for a week and 2 days and she hasn't really been interested in eating. Since having her, she has ate a total of 9 meal worms and 1 silk worm. I know that she may still be getting use to her new environment, so I'm not pressuring her and allowing her the time she needs to adjust. But I will say this, she is a DIVA that's for dam sure!!! :coverlaugh:

 

[JIMI]

I have quite a few funny feeding stories about my leo, Theseus lol. Within the first couple of months that I had acquired him, I kept him on paper towels. I purchased some hornworms for the first time to see if he'd like them. Without thinking about their ability to cling onto rough surfaces, I placed the first hornworm on the paper towel and when Theseus noticed it he quickly grabbed the bottom half of the hornworm, but the front half was still clinging onto the paper towel. He began shaking his head from side to side while walking backwards and tore the poor thing in half. I felt so horrible:shock:

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Tails for brunch, anyone?

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[JessJohnson87]

I have a story but a video is worth more than my words....

 

[Keeboard]

Lol but seriously a couple people on YouTube actually fed their geckos their own tails! Does the word insectivore mean anything to them?

 

[JessJohnson87]

In the wild I think they will eat each others tails that drop. I've read of babies doing it to tank mates.

 

[Keeboard]

I think it's a rumour people made up because it makes sense. Wouldn't the tail be eaten by the enemy that made the gecko drop the tail?

 

[JessJohnson87]

It could be a possibility. I have heard that crested geckos will eat their own tail if they drop it so who knows...

 

[Spotty the Leopard Gecko]

Spotty is usually a clumsy hunter and one time he was sitting up on his little reptile hammock when it was time for feeding. So, I dropped a cricket up on the hammock so that my little spoiled boy wouldnt have to walk down to get it. The cricket is on the hammock and so is spotty. The cricket is just chilling there, while spotty is approaching to get it. Suddenly, his claw gets stuck in between the super mini holes. He tries to attack the cricket but cannot reach it because his claw got stuck. He could not get it out for a few seconds and I gently helped him out. He later caught the cricket with satisfaction on his little face.