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[CDN-Cresties]

You would haveto mix the calcium in the babyfood but if you buy Crested Gecko Diet, it has everything you need for a healthy gecko.

[jon_without_h]

I think i would probably stick to the gecko diet just because its simplier. I just dont have all the time to be consintrating on a indpeth diet because i will only be liviing at the household myself with the lizard that i will be buying one weke on one week off so my dad will hav to take care of it so i want it to be simple. Do you think it is better ot have two of them so they have company all the time?

[CDN-Cresties]

You can house two together as long as they both not males. If you do choose to buy a baby crestie, I would recommend that you use crix and the CGD together. If they are on CGD alone, they grow rate slows down, thats what I have noticed at least.

[Ptindy]

Yes you would have to dust the food still with calcium and multi-vitamins once every other week. To "dust" means to simple add calium powder (or calcium dust) or vitamin powder to your reptile's food. Baby food you could mix it in. Crickets you simply shake the crickets around in a cup or zip lock in the dust to get them covered. There is a product called the T-Rex crested gecko diet. Most pet stores should have it. It is a complete supplement for crickets and baby food. It's cheap and easy. If you were to choose to feed it baby food I would suggest if you have access to crickets to feed them crickets every couple weeks (just buy what you need). If not, babyfood will suffice. Jon, do you have access to pet stores that carry reptile products and feeders???

Mike

[jon_without_h]

I dont want to end up with any eggs right off the bat because i wouldnt have any idea what to do with them so i will probably get two femals and then maybe later get a male and start bredding them. They arent that expensive only like $50 i think. Is there any6 problems with more than one female?

[jon_without_h]

I am not sure what repital stuff the pet stores around me have. I am going to go out and see whats around for pets. If i do feed them crickets i will probably try and bredd crickets to savve myself the movie because i heard crikects are expenive. I may just stick with the diet foods or the baby food.

[Ptindy]

Yea Jon go check it out. Around here I get crickets for 10 cents each. More then 2 females can be housed together but it is possible that they may fight, but no likely. Also, if you are buying babies you can't tell the sex till about 6 months. So if your planning on buying babies you have to seperate them as soon as you see fighting or a buldge above it's tail (indicating its a male). So unless your prepared to keep two seperate crested enclosures then I would only buy one. Sexed females can and usually are more expensive then males and hatchlings. Going to find out if your pet store sells the crested gecko diet is a good idea and how much crickets are. My cresties get fed 5 or 6 crickets per feeding so at 10 cents a cricket it works out to about 2.40 a week. Breeding crickets is not a good idea unless you have many many geckos. They are stinky, cleaning their home is gross and they are a pain in the butt!