So Spike is blind in one eye and partially blind in the other. Vision won't return. Currently we are feeding him four or five crickets every other day. He lost some weight and tail girth during the first stages of the infection when he couldn't see at all so we are trying to beef him up a bit. As it is you have to slowly move the thrashing cricket in front of his better eye, all the while hoping it doesn't pop a leg and take off across the massive tank. Because then you need to chase it down with tweezers and hope your ninja skills don't fail you now because you need to pluck a cricket by it's one remaining leg at neck break speeds. As well we were looking into getting a new dust (need opinions on that too) but when the cricket is flipping out the dust more or less just powders off.
I need to know if this is it for the next many, many years or if there is a better way to feed him? We had a cricket lose both it's back legs in the frenzy and crawl around the tank. Spike could see it and lunged about twenty or so times before I gave up and snagged the cricket by the head, killing it and making it useless food. While he was lunging he was biting the paper towel....it's what we have down as substrate because we were dealing with the infection...and I'm worried that could cause some sort of impaction, or can a leopard gecko digest paper? All I have available to me is crickets, meal worms, and wax worms. We used to give him about 8 wax worms a year, just as a treat lol. And he used to eat mealworms, but now we have a red eyed tree frog and he eats crickets so we switched Spike to crickets. Now he doesn't care for the worms.
I've heard of feeding bowls but how do you keep the insects inside the bowl? And make it low enough the gecko can get it? Should we more or less empty the tank and let the crickets crawl and Spike will learn? Right now it's 2 dry hides, a wet hide, a water bowl, two décor plants and a décor log in a 60 gallon tank. Someone told me to use the slurry other geckos eat but isn't that fruit? And Spike eats bugs so that would be a huge mess up in the diet no?
Thanks in advance guys! I want to make Spike as comfortable as possible.
I need to know if this is it for the next many, many years or if there is a better way to feed him? We had a cricket lose both it's back legs in the frenzy and crawl around the tank. Spike could see it and lunged about twenty or so times before I gave up and snagged the cricket by the head, killing it and making it useless food. While he was lunging he was biting the paper towel....it's what we have down as substrate because we were dealing with the infection...and I'm worried that could cause some sort of impaction, or can a leopard gecko digest paper? All I have available to me is crickets, meal worms, and wax worms. We used to give him about 8 wax worms a year, just as a treat lol. And he used to eat mealworms, but now we have a red eyed tree frog and he eats crickets so we switched Spike to crickets. Now he doesn't care for the worms.
I've heard of feeding bowls but how do you keep the insects inside the bowl? And make it low enough the gecko can get it? Should we more or less empty the tank and let the crickets crawl and Spike will learn? Right now it's 2 dry hides, a wet hide, a water bowl, two décor plants and a décor log in a 60 gallon tank. Someone told me to use the slurry other geckos eat but isn't that fruit? And Spike eats bugs so that would be a huge mess up in the diet no?
Thanks in advance guys! I want to make Spike as comfortable as possible.
