How many supers to feed a gecko?

[Snowball98]

Sorry for the long introduction like thing! About a month ago, I rescued a leo from a man who just wanted to dump her on anyone. She was thrown in a small tank, wood chips for substrate, housing two leos. 15 crickets were thrown in every week, and lived in the tank. When I got her home, she couldnt catch food (to the extent we thought she was blind) and she was one dark brownish grey color from her nose to the tip of her tail. Anyways, she got better at everything, her color, her sight, and gained the weight she was missing.
She won't eat anything but supers now, and my other leo won't eat anything but crix. How often should they be fed? I've been feeding everyday with the "all they'll eat in 15 minute" rule. And she's been willingly taking about 4-6 supers a day. After looking it up online, I found out that was alot. Should I still give her that since it's what she wants? And should I feed her less times a week? Thanks in advance!

 

[Kotori]

Well geckos don't overeat much so that should be good, if she's eating them...How big is she? If she's smaller than six inches that might be too many...I feed mealies and crix to mine so I wasn't sure

 

[koloj]

I feed my male as many as he can eat ( one time he ate 10 supers in 1 day!) but I think 3-4 is a good number

 

[Snowball98]

She's 8 in. , so by no means small.. I'm just wondering why she's eating so many, since they aren't known to over eat. She even ate about 6 plus some crickets today.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

They will indeed overeat. Some are gluttons! I had to put one of my girls on a diet because she was a piggy and getting too fat for her health.

 

[Kotori]

Lol I suppose there are always exceptions then! I suggest maybe weighing her, identify her healthy weight and keep her at that weight. adjust feeding as necessary.

 

[Dog Shrink]

I feed my 1 yr. Old male 3x a week and he eats 3-4 supers per feeding generally. He doesn't get crickets tho. The most I'm comfortable letting him eat is 5 in a feeding. Any more than that and I worry about regurgitation esp when he was coming out of winter slow down.