Baby crested geckos usually are able to eat small crickets that measure between inch to inch depending on the size of your baby crested gecko.
Baby crested gecko food.
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.
You can introduce insects to the diet of your baby cresties around a month after hatching.
As a treat provide a variety of insects including gut loaded recently fed crickets mealworms and waxworms.
The insects should be gut loaded and dusted with calcium and d3 powder.
A well balanced crested gecko diet consists of.
Plant based foods day geckos crested geckos and a few other species include fruits flowers nectar and similar foods on their menu along with the insects that carnivorous gecko species eat.
This powder can also be used to dust insects.
You can only feed your cresties with baby food purees and fresh fruits only as a treat.
Crested geckos eat small amounts of fruit in the wild in addition to insects.
It is best to use commercial crested gecko food for baby crested gecko.
This is because crested geckos can refuse other food after eating fresh fruits.
Commercial crested gecko food which is a complete balanced diet.
Sweet baby foods such as peach banana or apricot can be mixed with the crested gecko diet and offered as a treat.
Feeding insects to baby crested geckos.
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.
Female crested geckos can experience calcium crash after laying eggs.
Read up on proper supplementation and choose appropriate fruits to feed your crested gecko.
Accordingly you can provide these omnivorous species occasional fruit treats.
Baby geckos can be offered small crickets and mealworms daily.
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.
Insects in general should be no bigger than the width of the gecko s head.
However things aren t quite that easy.
The general guideline is to feed a good crested gecko diet cgd every other day with gutloaded dusted insects being introduced around a month after hatching if desired.