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Nicky
03-26-03, 07:48 AM
My crested gecko"licky" is still a little baby and all he/she will eat is peaches(the baby food stuff)? i know they eat fruit but he/she won't take crickets. is this normal? I got him yesterday maybe he/she is just stressed out but like aren't they supposed to eat crickets too? maybe i'll just lay off untill licky gets used to his new home but he/she eats the peaches so i guess its not that streesed out i'm not sure? any ideas from more experincewd keepers because its new to me i have a snake but my first time with a lizard so i dunno someone help me plz

DragnDrop
03-26-03, 08:16 AM
Sounds like perfectly normal behaviour for a gecko who's just had his world turned upside down.
I'd suggest to leave only fruit in with him for a few days. He needs time to absorb what's just happened to him, so he'll be stressed to the max. If he's daring enough to eat in the first few days, the fruit will be enough for a while. Having crickets jumping around might just be enough to drive him up the wall in the new surroundings. Try not to handle him for maybe the first week, until you see him out and about exploring regularly. Then add about 2 appropriately sized crickets. Let him hunt for them, but keep the fruit there too. Once he's hunting and eating all the crickets you add, you can go to a more normal diet of insects alternating with fruit.
If he's just a baby, it might take a while for him to start eating and hunting. Adults might get used to the new place sooner. Let his behaviour be the guide to how well he's adapting, and when to add bugs.

Katatonic
03-26-03, 11:26 PM
Amen. *nods approvingly*.

Devillived
03-28-03, 11:47 PM
I agree. Mine did the same thing. It took them a bit to start eating the crickets, but now they eat them as much as any other baby Gecko would.