Do the really know when enough is enough?

[Alliemac]

My 6-8 month old female regurged overnight last night. We've been trying to switch her to mealies/supers from crickets for about 6 weeks with little success until this week. She's FINALLY starting accepting the mealies as her food source out of a dish about 4 days ago (before that I had to hand feed her) and now last night a huge regurge....

Soooo....is this ok once in a while? Did she overeat? Is her stomach adjusting to a different protein as her main diet?

She is acting fine, alert, normal poop overnight (right next to the regurge lol), came out for a drink and some calcium this morning when I came down like she always does. Her hot side is 95 so I know it wasn't lack of belly heat that was the problem. The only thing that has changed is that she is finally eating mealies out of a dish and therefore eating alot of them. She's been going through half again as much as my biggest eater who eats about 200 mealies and 20 supers a week. SO I'll calculate and say she's been eating about 45 mealies and 4 or 5 supers a day for the past 4 days.

Thanks for any input.

 

[sammer021486]

My 6-8 month old female regurged overnight last night. We've been trying to switch her to mealies/supers from crickets for about 6 weeks with little success until this week.

SO I'll calculate and say she's been eating about 45 mealies and 4 or 5 supers a day for the past 4 days.

45 mealworms and 4 or 5 supers per day seems like an awful lot to me. My 6-8 month old will regurge if she eats more than 12 mealworms a night along with about a dozen small (1/4") crickets. But all she ever regurges are the mealworms, I have yet to see her regurg the crickets, which she eats before the mealworms.

I do not like feeding supers to a juvie, just because of both of their sizes. I only feed supers to my 5.5 year old male.

 

[spykerherps]

Yes that does seem like an offal lot. and seem like a good reason she is regurgitating. I would cut way back and see how it goes. give her say 12 regular mealies a day or 3 to 4 supers. that's about the diet mine are on and they all have fat tails good appetites and no regurge.my adults and breeders will usually eat a little more say 4 -8 super worms at a meal.
Some geckos just don't know when to quit eating and will do what your is doing.

 

[mynewturtle]

I personally wouldn't let my gecko's have acess to 45 meal worms, to me thats just asking for an obese gecko.

Feed 10-12 a day in my opinion no need for 45 in the encloser.