Snuffles379
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Hello everyone! In the last couple of years I've had an increasingly hard time feeding my male leopard gecko and these past few months feeding has become really difficult. His main diet was always crickets and at least a year ago he stopped hunting the crickets in his cage and was unable to catch them when he tried. So I began feeding him crickets outside his cave with reptile tweezers. This worked well for a while and then he slowly became uninterested in crickets I moved to mainly feeding him meal worms, then super worms. The super worms lasted as his main food for a while, again I had to place them outside of his cave and move them until he grabbed them up. Most recently though he's completely lost all interest in crickets and now he is very rarely interested in super worms. In the last three weeks the most I can get him to show interest in and eat is wax worms, which have always been his favorite, though he'll only take one or two. I'm not too concerned with this small amount of food consumption in the last few weeks because his tail is still very large and he seems otherwise fine. Though I've been searching and searching for a better way to feed him or something new to feed him.
Ideally I'd like to keep a variation of food (super worms and such) in a bowl in his cage for him to come get as he'd like but he will not eat out of any bowls, cups, or dishes I buy. Every night I have to take out his cave (which he always stays in except to use the rest room or drink which I never see him do but he clearly does) and try and drop/move around his food with the tweezers hoping to catch his attention. I've tried crickets, meal worms, super worms, wax worms, horn worms, and dubia roaches and none of been a big success. He's mostly only eating wax worms now which I know are not an idea food for him but he is around 12 years old and I worry that that's the only food I'll be able to get him to eat.
So any advice on feeding/what to feed or suggestions would be really great. Also would you guys recommend feeding him the wax worms as a main food if that's what he'll take and then trying other things on and off? I haven't given him more than 5 wax worms at a time because they've always been just a treat but I'm starting to think they'll have to be his new main food. If wax worms are his main food is there something specific I can gut load them with to give him some kind of nutrients?
Ideally I'd like to keep a variation of food (super worms and such) in a bowl in his cage for him to come get as he'd like but he will not eat out of any bowls, cups, or dishes I buy. Every night I have to take out his cave (which he always stays in except to use the rest room or drink which I never see him do but he clearly does) and try and drop/move around his food with the tweezers hoping to catch his attention. I've tried crickets, meal worms, super worms, wax worms, horn worms, and dubia roaches and none of been a big success. He's mostly only eating wax worms now which I know are not an idea food for him but he is around 12 years old and I worry that that's the only food I'll be able to get him to eat.
So any advice on feeding/what to feed or suggestions would be really great. Also would you guys recommend feeding him the wax worms as a main food if that's what he'll take and then trying other things on and off? I haven't given him more than 5 wax worms at a time because they've always been just a treat but I'm starting to think they'll have to be his new main food. If wax worms are his main food is there something specific I can gut load them with to give him some kind of nutrients?