Olive Oil?

[Led Zep]

Hey, I was just wondering, since I have heard that olive oil helps impaction, that if you let your feeders drink olive oil, will this help impaction in a leopard gecko? Also, can you put some in a plastic bag and shake it as you would with calcium and vitamins?

 

[GeckoMandi]

I never have used olive oil, but I have used mineral oil and I'm not sure they are the same thing.

But I wouldn't rub it on the food, I'd just put a drop or 2 on the leo's mouth and let them lick it off with an eye dropper or something, it doesn't take much.

Oh and it did help my leo go poo, the mineral oil. lol

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

I have never heard of using olive oil, and I am not sure it would work like mineral oil. It would seem to me that since olive oil is digestible, it would be absorbed in the intestines. Also, if you coat a cricket with olive oil it might kill it, and most geckos won't eat anything that is not moving.

I feel that if a gecko is kept in the proper environment (heat gradient, non-ingestible substrate, etc.), that impaction would not be an issue anyway.

 

[Led Zep]

Ok, I just wanted to know just incase anything happens, but can you get mineral oil at a local drug store? Also, if I coat crickets in mineral oil, will it kill the crickets like olive oil?

 

[GeckoMandi]

You can get mineral oil just about anywhere, I got mine at the dollar store but wal-mart, target, cvs all have it.

I wouldn't coat the crickets in it, it will most likely drown or kill them like Marcia said. If you have to just drop a couple drops on it's mouth and it will lick it off.

 

[Led Zep]

Ok, thanks, but isn't it kind of hard not to clog their noses?

 

[GeckoMandi]

No you just have to watch what you are doing, make sure you drop it right on the mouth and not near the nose area it is kind hard but watch where you drop it and it should be ok.