My crested gecko wont eat!!!

[Xolderfog]

My crested gecko wont eat, I've tried just cgd, ive tried just baby food and ive tried a mixture of the two, the baby food is a fruit salad one, its ingredients are Apples (60%), Pears (20%), Bananas (20%), Concentrated lemon juice, Vitamin C. Is it OK for me to feed this to him? I got him last saturday and the pet store fed him on banana delight baby food mixed with cgd before i got him, he is aprox 4/5 months old. What should i do to get him to eat :main_huh:, ive tried dipping his nose in the food but most times he will just turn his head and then lick the food off of his nose and walk away, he doesnt pay any attention to it in his enclosure. What should i do?
Also, he spends most of his time up in the plants of his enclosure, but occasionaly he will stay on the floor, is this a sign of something or is it nothing to be worried about?
Thanks in advance.

 

[sammer021486]

Your gecko is most likely eating, but you will not notice it most of the time. I have found that mine like their diet to be thick like pudding and not watery. Also when it is thick like the pudding you can tell if they are licking the diet. Even my little 4 day olds are eating the diet, as I can tell from the small tongue impressions in their dish.

My suggestions are

1) Stop all feedings of the baby food, it is nothing but trouble. Your gecko does not need the high sugars that are present in the baby food, regardless if that is how they were feeding it at the pet store. The CGD nutritional balance was thrown off by them adding baby food to the diet. CGD diet has been formulated to be fully supplemental and nutritional and the only thing that a crested gecko needs.

2) make the diet a little thicker

3) Leave the gecko be, you just moved it from its enclosure at the pet store to a new one at its house


I know that you are worried about your pet's health but they will not starve themselves. I have a pet store gecko that was only fed apple baby food and crickets at the pet store and it took awhile to get her over to straight CGD. My solution was to dust her crickets with dry CGD and she started eating the mixed CGD in a couple of weeks.

I think that your gecko has been eating, but the mixture is on the watery side and shows no signs of the gecko eating it. Also at 4/5 months depending on the gecko it could still be very small and as such only has a small stomach.

What type of diet are you feeding the gecko, the 1 part or the 2 part?

I have never tried the 1 part diet and have started with the 2 part right from the start. I have tried mango, rose, strawberry and banana. All of my geckos eat the banana, but I regularly had at least one of them rejecting the other flavours. If you are using the 1 part diet then if it is the new formula, if I am correct, it is strawberry and banana flavoured.

I have cresties that do stay up in the plants and also hang out on the floor. I have a pair where the female loves to walk around on the floor and the male thinks that the top of the tank is the floor (hardly ever leaves the top of the tank).

The main point is to give your gecko time to settle in and get use to its new environment.

 

[darkridder]

simple question, are you seeing feces?

 

[Xolderfog]

Not reeally tbh, im not sure, there was the first day i got him, but i havent really seen any since then, i will keep my eye out,
thanks

 

[darkridder]

there is a simple equation to know if your gecko is eating, if there is feces, it is eating. If it is a small gecko you simply wont see any major difference in the amount of food in the food dish which often leads first time owners to think their geckos ar enot eating. But like I said give it a few days, if you see feces, feces = eating.

 

[Xolderfog]

thanks