Diet

Hello!! Sorry I haven't been on for a while. School has been very busy. Anyway, I was wondering if I should supplement my geckos diet with meal worms. I'm a bit confused. The man at the original pet shop where I bought my gecko (he has already been proven unreliable) says his geckos don't eat meal worms. But around the web a lot of people give some type of food along with the cricket diet. The real question is, do geckos get all the nutrients they from just crickets (gut loaded of course) ?


Thanks in advance!

A varied diet is the best way to get a really well-rounded diet, in my opinion. Different species have different nutrient or mineral ratios that contribute differently to your gecko's best health, so I think mixing things up is the best thing to do. Plus it's not difficult to do and keeps things interesting for reptiles.

My AFT geckos get crickets, superworms (I prefer supers to mealies), and discoid roaches as the "staple," but I add in butterworms, hornworms, other roaches, and anything else I have on hand that they're interested in.

I know a lot of people keep and raise multiple generations of animals on one food type, be it crickets or mealworms, but I still adamantly believe variety is best, personally.

If you're cricket is taking in all the necessary nutrients then the answer is yes, you're leo will be getting it all too

If you are properly gut loading, crickets are fine. Some geckos are picky though. Mine was steady eating mealworms until I fed her crickets. Now she will only eat crickets and won't go anywhere near mealworms or superworms.

I would argue that when reptiles are fed the same thing daily for long periods of time they get tired of them and latch on to anything new in their diet. I've never had a hunger strike or an individual refuse a previously-loved feeder in 7 years and several dozen geckos and chameleons.