Just a question

[herf]

I have read that to many wax worms are not good for a leos,but that's all my little guys will eat.Well some crickets from time to time but not often.
I try meal worms but they both just lick them and turn away.I leave a bowl with meal worms in the cage but after 7+ days they will not touch them.
so i get nervous and give them a few 4/5 wax worms cause i think they are hungry.

This might sounds silly to some people but,Is there something i can spray on the meal worms to kinda trick them into eating them?

or any advice would be helpful thanks...

 

[Dog Shrink]

Wax worms are like gecko crack. They get addicted and will refuse other feeders. Depending on the age of your leo you could try hand/tweezer/tong feeding superworms to them as long as your leos are old/big enough to handle them. Also food in a dish isn't as enticing as food walking past them. Cut back on the wax worms, resist feeding them to the leo, get him good and hungry then offer hand fed food that will walk in front of him. Keep doing this for several days until he has no choice but to eat the alternate food. You really need to try and get him over the wax worm addiction and unfortunately tuff love is really the only way to do it. Yes he will get hungry, you want that, yes he may refuse other foods, but he won't starve to death if he is a healthy leo.

 

[Mel&Keith]

It's going to be tough but you just have to stop giving wax worms. In quite a few years of doing this I've never seen a gecko starve itself to death because it refused to switch feeders. It may take a while but eventually it will get hungry enough to try something different.

 

[ReptileWorld]

As cruel as it sounds you are going to have to cut them off the wax worms by not offering any type of food item for a few days. leos can go a while with out food but its never suggested. but try giving them a break from feeding and get them nice and hungry. like they said above. then try offering a new food item that they will try and like. i suggest trying to feed them some dubia. they might actually like those and not mind the switch. i have had nightmares getting my leos to switch from wax worms to any other worm or cricket years ago before dubia were readily available. :main_thumbsup:

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Why are there two threads asking the same thing by the same OP?