Although baby crested geckos can be fed a self made fruit diet it s best to stay use commercial crested gecko food like meal replacement powders.
Baby crested gecko food.
To be certain that your crested gecko has food you should place food in the container 24 to 48 hours after hatching.
Sweet baby foods such as peach banana or apricot can be mixed with the crested gecko diet and offered as a treat.
Baby crested geckos are called hatchlings as are other lizards that hatch out of eggs the oviparous reptiles.
As a treat provide a variety of insects including gut loaded recently fed crickets mealworms and waxworms.
One of the best thing about having a pet crestie is that they enjoy a powdered diet.
Read up on proper supplementation and choose appropriate fruits to feed your crested gecko.
Before purchasing your new baby crested gecko for sale online or buying a pair of crested geckos for sale you need to properly set up your crested gecko terrarium or crested gecko habitat.
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Crested geckos eating repashy may be offered insects once a week along with small amounts of fruit such as banana or mango or fruit baby food from a jar as a treat.
If you use baby food read the below section on fruit smoothies and replace blended fruits with the babyfood to create a more balanced homemade gecko diet.
2 3 times a week you should add in a variety of fruits and vegetables such as banana nectarines or papaya.
Young geckos are actively growing and use more of their food resources and energy for growth so they rarely become overweight when fed a balanced diet.
We offer pangea crested gecko food for sale to all of our baby and juvenile crested geckos.
Baby food alone should never be fed to a crested gecko.
How to hold a baby gecko baby geckos can be very skittish so handling them when they are little can help acclimate them to touch and make them less afraid.
However things aren t quite that easy.
How to feed baby crested gecko.
This powder can also be used to dust insects.
Baby food tends to be made primarily from pureed fruit which after all is what you will find the higher quality complete crested gecko foods.
Not only do baby foods often contain a lot more sugar that crested gecko food but they also typically lack the protein included in repashy or pangea foods.
Baby crested geckos need to be fed daily and in the evenings.
Baby crested geckos are best housed in large plastic terrariums or in standard 20 inch 10 gallon reptile tanks with a screen top.
They shed more often so you are likely to see shed issues more in hatchlings.
Baby crested geckos can be a tad more difficult so we do recommnend purchasing the juvenile size over the crested gecko hatchlings.
