My Leo got bullied by his dinner...

[cherrypopwizkid]

So... My Leo is still new. I haven't completely figured out when he prefers to eat, how often how much etc. so theirs still a bit of experimenting.


Last night I thought he might be hungry. He was kind of searching around, and he had eaten the previous morning but he only took three crickets and didn't want a fourth.

So, still experimenting, I drop two crickets in. Well he clearly was not interested in them at the moment but the most peculiar thing happened. The little bugger poked him in the eye with the antanae! Sure enough he closed his eye, then both eyes, then opened just one leaving the poked one closed, and once again he opened both and was fine. I was getting ready to remove the crickets as it had been a few minutes and he wasn't touching them. Then one of them jumps up, and jumps on my Leo!

So the poor thing freaks out, shakes, and rushes on top of his his hide. i thought this must have been rather embarrassing for him.

i picked him up, he is healthy, active, the right temperature. I checked and he responds to movement of my finger on both sides of his head indicating both eyes are seeing normally.....

Idk, I'm curious if anyone else's gecko has been beaten up by its lunch! I'm sure this is just a humorous incident resulting from putting crickets in a cage with a gecko not interested in eating but I thought I'd pass it along in case someone has a similar story or thought there is something else I should look into.

 

[ddkgeckos]

LOL! Yep i had this also but with a couple of locusts. they tryed having a nibble of her tail so she freaked out and then just stared at the locust for like 2 hours waving her tail all over the place she eventually got the guts to eat it. loves em now. She stood up to the bully and has not looked back since.

 

[bman123]

That's funny. My Leo never hunts. I will put food in and he will look at it but not eat it. He will walk around the tank and if they are in the way he will just step on em. It reminds me of the Godzilla movies when he does it. The crickets try to go running away and he just steps on em.

 

[Eric1969]

LOL! Yep i had this also but with a couple of locusts. they tryed having a nibble of her tail so she freaked out and then just stared at the locust for like 2 hours waving her tail all over the place she eventually got the guts to eat it. loves em now. She stood up to the bully and has not looked back since.

I saw a gecko eating a locust on you tube once, this thing was huge, I heard they should not be offered anything larger than its head. This locust was bout 3-4 inches long.... I think someone just did that to see what it would do.... How big our the lucust you use. WHere do you get them from? Mine has only been interested in crickets, I have tried meal worms but no takes.

 

[cherrypopwizkid]

yeah we personify these things a lot. when it happened I almost laughed but i stifled myself and covered my mouth so he wouldn't be upset. XD

He ate fine this morning...But I have to admit it was kind of funny.

hey B, its not impossible to train a Leo to eat freezedried foods, its just hard and unlikely... However the place you got it from may have done just that...Do you know? It may be operant conditioned for non-living food.