Encouraging a leopard gecko to eat?

[ballpythoncrazy]

I have a baby leopard gecko that I got on November 29th, so I've had her for about a month and a half (almost?). My issue is that she's not eating too much. She eats about 5 small meal worms a week, even though she has fresh meal worms in her dish every night. I know that she knows there's food, and where it is, but she's just not interested in it I guess. A few days ago I dropped a small cricket in front of her, and she chased it down, and would LICK it, and then she would get startled when it ran away. And this went on for about 5 minutes until she got bored of it and went back to sleep. Today I tried putting a meal worm directly in front of her and she looked at it, and followed it with her eyes, but didn't actually get up and didn't eat it. She's only lost 1 gram since I've gotten her so I'm not too worried. I'm wondering if it's because it's winter? I know geckos can eat less when its winter but I don't know if it's normal for her to be eating so little. Right now she only has a heat pad, and our house is always 73 degrees. Should I put a heat lamp over her tank to raise the ambient air temps? Just wondering how I can encourage her to eat. Thanks!


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