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Old 07-14-03, 10:37 AM   #1
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Question Is it possible to overfeed a gecko?

I have asked this question sometime ago but I still wondering about the issue....

My youngest leo Pikachu which I got as a hatchling from the April show has a bottomless stomach! It's unreal! I've been told that they will stop eating when they are full but this girl NEVER gets full!!!

She has NEVER ever refused a food item, no matter how much she has just eaten! So far I've been calculating the size of her meals in proportion to her body size: 1/4 to 1/3 of her body size excluding the tail & legs. I figure her stomach can't be bigger than that, am I wrong?

I feed her every evening a good size meal, 3/4" to 1" mealworms, usually 12 to 20 of them and she always gobbles them up in less than 5 minutes. If I dare forget to feed her by 9pm, she is waiting at her food dish staring at me!!! No joke!

Last night I decided to give her a bit of a bigger meal, about 22 to 25 mealies being 1/3 to almost 1/2 of her body size. She still ate the whole thing in less than 5 minutes!!!

Am I feeding her enough??? Should I be offering her even more??? Everywhere I read it says to give them as much as they will eat and they will stop when full but I don't want to overdo it and make her sick...

She is very healthy and has a very nice plump tail for her size. I hope I am doing right by the size of meals that I give her. She also gets silkworms on a weekly basis and will gobble 3 to 4 small ones (1 1/4" to 1 1/2" each) at a time definitely totalling a good 1/2 of her body size!

Her digestion process seems to be very good as well! Like clockwork after every meal, she goes potty and take a pretty big dump!!! lol

Any ideas??? Should I stay on the regimen she is on now or should I offer her more food?

Pixie

P.S. I will take some new pics of her during the day or evening and I will make a small video of her eating, the piggy in action!
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