Eating like a pig

[Pepper]

Okay so my leo who is growing, is now starting to eat like a pig..

I wouldn't doubt that he/she would eat 50 mealworms in a few minutes..everyday. I am teaching him to eat out of a bowl now, and literally if I put 20 in there and he eats them, he will stare at me, back at the bowl, and then stare at me until I drop more in there, if I refuse he starts to hit his nose against the bottom of the bowl like....

*TEMPER TANTRUM, FEED ME!!!!*

Is this normal haha?

 

[2bacop]

whether it is normal or not I dont know but it sounds really cute! Callista wont eat mealworms because they dont move right for her but she gobbles down 12-15 large crickets each meal, she is my little piggy!

 

[Pepper]

It's like a switch went off, before he would only eat every other day, now it's like...I open the curtain to my closet and he is standing staring at me, watching my every move...

Maybe's he's plotting something..

 

[2bacop]

idk, Callista will eat all the crickets I put in for her and then look at me like "I'm waiting" then I put another in and she shakes her little tail and grabs it. It makes me laugh!

Probably is plotting something, I think Callista does too!

 

[Pepper]

I love it when they shake their tail!! I was kind of intimidated one day, I must have made him angry and he started waving it in the air like a cat, it got me to back off....

Although with crickets he seems much more enthusiastic cause he knows they will get away.

With mealworms he just walks up to them opens his mouth eats one and closes his mouth haha.

 

[2bacop]

lol, I wish she would eat mealworms. It would be a lot easier just to leave a dish in her tank.

 

[Pepper]

Mine doesn't know how to eat out of a dish really, I usually just drop a whole bunch with him during feeding time and wait for him to eat them all.

I'm just now teaching him how to eat out of a dish and I have to drop one in the dish for him to realize there are worms in it.

But I think after a week or so he will start to realize the bowl has food in it when it is in the tank.

 

[T-AL]

Yeah I had to teach mine about eating out of the bowl. They just didn't understand why a random bowl was in there one day until I stopped feeding the mealies from the twizzers then they realized. haha

 

[vctkiller]

My Sunglow eats like a pig. He likes crickets a lot better than mealworms now because he has never been fed a cricket when he was been fed on mealworms by the breeder. I am scared when I feed him lol. I drop the cricket the next thing you know you start seeing a big bright sunglow zipping across the whole tank. Its like he would die for it. I do that sometimes to make videos. I fed him on the tongs. I was scared . He would just back away in his hide and I would show the cricket. Then he lunges like a speeding bullet and sometimes rips the cricket out the tongs, and I mean literally rip the cricket out the tongs than I would actually hear loud crunches. One time when I fed him on the tongs I was waiting. Just about when I thought he would eat later he strikes at the cricket. I jumped and let the cricket go. He striked it so fast and made the cricket paralyzed. It was on the floor. Right below his nose. And then just looks at it. He eats the cricket likes hes a might dinosaur .

 

[shawn119]

i feed mine 3 to 6 crickets every other day. i dont know about meal worms

 

[Haligren]

What an interesting personality your gecko has, Pepper! lol

I guess I spoil mine. Around six o'clock every evening, I have to poke Tiamat from her moist or cool hide (I suspect she's trying to brumate and I've tried to up her temps in her tank recently to try to bring her out of it), and drop a mealie or super in front of her. She usually wakes right up to eat it and now she's eating a bit more - a few mealies and a super. Still not as much as I'd like, but I would like to feed her from the bowl although I'm not really sure how to go about it. I'm afraid she'll just sleep all the time if I don't wake her up to eat.

I do have a bowl of calcium usually with a super in it just in case she gets hungry when I'm not around. She's only eaten out of the bowl a few times though.

What's a good way to go about teaching them to feed from a bowl? Uh, not that I meant to hijack this thread. :O

 

[Villetty]

The best way I have found to do this is to gradually put the mealworms nearer to the dish untill you have a few flopped over the edge of it.

If you put a few in the dish first, hopefully they will get the 1 on the lip of the dish and then peek inside. Once they notice more in the dish it will go for them

This is what I did anyways and it took a good week or so of doing it every day till she got into the swing of it.

Hope that helps :main_thumbsup:

 

[Haligren]

The best way I have found to do this is to gradually put the mealworms nearer to the dish untill you have a few flopped over the edge of it.

If you put a few in the dish first, hopefully they will get the 1 on the lip of the dish and then peek inside. Once they notice more in the dish it will go for them

This is what I did anyways and it took a good week or so of doing it every day till she got into the swing of it.

Hope that helps :main_thumbsup:

I'll have to try it when Tiamat develops more of an appetite. Like I said, she seems to be wanting to brumate. Despite my best efforts to increase the temps in my tank I can't seem to get them above 88F right now on the warm side (UTH is still 97.5 so I know that one's okay). Thank you for the advice though.

 

[linda]

that's so funny,one of mine taps his nose against the glass of his viv so i will let him out.