Leos not eating

[reptilekris]

my 2 leos arent eating. my bell albino hasnt eatin in 2-3 days. my tremper hasnt eatin in about 5 days. they share a 40 gallon tank with 3 hides and 1 moist hide.i have a branch and some fake foliage and i try to mist that down every once in a while.i have given them wax worms and now thats all they want. but i dont give it to them because i know that waxworms are not a main source of food but a treat. so i have stoped that and moved on to superworms and crickets but they still dont seem interested. ohh the substarte is reptile carpet and i have one heating pad and no bulb im thinking bout getting a lamp but dont know yet. what should i do??

 

[jwurm]

Try regular mealies or pheonix worms. I wouldn't start to worry about them not eating until they are noticeably losing weight (they are a lot tougher than you'd think sometimes!)

 

[Gonser]

The phoenix worms are great and high in nutrition. The problem with them though is they are VERY active and crawl out of the food container. Then they are crawling all over the place, go to the warm side, and turn into pupae quickly. I think mealworms are better since they stay in the food bowl. Feeding the phoenix would be good if your geckos eat quickly as soon as you put them in the bowl. otherwise they are crawling all over the place!

 

[Chewbecca]

The phoenix worms are great and high in nutrition. The problem with them though is they are VERY active and crawl out of the food container. Then they are crawling all over the place, go to the warm side, and turn into pupae quickly. I think mealworms are better since they stay in the food bowl. Feeding the phoenix would be good if your geckos eat quickly as soon as you put them in the bowl. otherwise they are crawling all over the place!

This is NOT always the case.
My mealies escape more than the phoenix worms do.
And supers escape even more often than that. And roaches are the BIGGEST dish escape artists ever.

Shoot, I've got a leo going on three weeks, I think, since she's eaten.
She's healthy as a horse, though. I think she's ovulating.

 

[geckoqueen]

my 2 leos arent eating. my bell albino hasnt eatin in 2-3 days. my tremper hasnt eatin in about 5 days. they share a 40 gallon tank with 3 hides and 1 moist hide.i have a branch and some fake foliage and i try to mist that down every once in a while.i have given them wax worms and now thats all they want. but i dont give it to them because i know that waxworms are not a main source of food but a treat. so i have stoped that and moved on to superworms and crickets but they still dont seem interested. ohh the substarte is reptile carpet and i have one heating pad and no bulb im thinking bout getting a lamp but dont know yet. what should i do??

My one gecko Ninja has not eatin in many months and is still living. I don't think Gecko's eat that often at least Ninja dodesn't seem to eat much, if at all most of the time.
If he does eat, sure leave tons of worms behind. Unless Ninja stashes his worms and I don't see the ones he eats.
I know the beetle is gone, so Ninja must of ate sometime last week.

 

[reptilekris]

thanks so much! i dont feed in dishes though. i use tongs and sometimes they just eat off the carpet. but today i had an extra 10 gallon laying around so i got some carpet and put it in there and threw some crickets in and they still did not eat. i put them in 1 at a time and they didnt eat.:main_huh: