Feeding mealworms whit fish food?

[Chibii]

I read on a topic that they fed the meal worms whit fish food.
What kind should i use?

My gecko has not eaten in 3 days, i wonder why. I know it's a bit soon to worry, but i don't think she likes meal worms. She walks trough her cage and when her nose touches something like the glass she licks. I pick her up olmost ones a day, so that she gets use to my hand.

Is their something that shouldn't do? I want to know now before i am to late.

Chibi

 

[Chibii]

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[Ciprion]

As far as the fish food goes, I feed it to my dubia and they seem to get long fine....As for the handling, try to cut back some and see if its just the stress????

 

[geckolvr88]

I feed crickets fish food. They seem to really like it, better than the oatmeal.

How long have you had the gecko?! some of them really don't like meal worms, that's how my baby blizzard is. It also took me foreverrr to get him to eat good amounts of food, like a week.

If you just got the lil guy give him some time, and also I'd say cut back a bit on the handling until he starts eating... maybe once every other day or so.

Good luck!

 

[RampantReptiles]

Any kind of fish food is fine. Most dont use it because overall its kind of costly compared to other foods. Do keep in mind that the mealworms still need a source of moisture such as a carrot or potatoe.

Try handling a little less like the other person said. If she is not eating it might be stress related. Also it is the breeding season so she could be ovulating which might cause her not to eat.

 

[Chibii]

She ate a couple of days ago (1 day ago) I'm feeding her today agen. I will handle her less. Thanks for all the help.

 

[sleepyjones]

As the others have said it probably is stress related.
It really depends on what you mean by "pick her up". I don't ever pick my geckos up unless I absolutely have to.
My big female, Iggy, generally tells me when she wants to take a wander out of her viv', she'll just sit there looking at me through the glass, at which point I'll go over slowly open the door and just put my hand in front of her, usually she'll just walk onto my hand, up my arm, down my back and just sit there in that place that's a bit too hard to comfortably reach to get her back, im sure she thinks it's a game. If she doesn't walk onto my hand then I generally know she wants dinner.

All geckos have there own personality traits, you'll see yours soon enough.
Picking her up is obviously a good way to get her used to human contact, but it would cause undue stress if she didn't want to be picked up, or was still nervous about human contact. You can moisten your hand and just put your hand slowly in the tank, where she can clearly see you (ie not from directly above her, and not from behind), if you do that carefully once, maybe twice a day, for a couple of minutes eventually she'll get used to it and get more interested untill she doesn't think twice and will just wander onto your hand on her own terms.
You could also try hand feeding her, so that she associates your hand as a food source.

Good luck, and just be patient with her.

Forgot the main point!! ... Don't know about fish food, I use fruit to feed my mealworms and crickets.
A box of mealworms usually last me about 2 weeks, so I'll generally put in a couple of slices of orange, then remove them after about 3 days and replace with pieces of apple or pear or something ... whatever I have really.
I also sometimes dust the fruit with calcium, not sure if that's beneficial to the geckos, but I figure it can't do any harm.