She's not blind, but she sure can't catch 'em

[moosassah]

GP has finally started eating. She sees what I drop into the cage, but her strike is lousy! It can take her 5 times or more to pick up a mealie. Seems like she's overshooting the mealie.

I've loaded up her mealie dish so that she has strike advantage once she's eating out of it regularly.

Any thoughts or tips for me.

 

[Strike2]

I cant say I have any real advice, but mine will not eat (or is too lazy to peek over the edge of the dish) mealies out of his dish, I have to pretty much drop them in front of his face or they eventaully die in the dish. I was wondering if there was a way to remedy this...
As for your leo you might try putting them right up to her mouth with tweezers...mine has started to eat from the tweezers.

 

[curiousKathy]

I cant say I have any real advice, but mine will not eat (or is too lazy to peek over the edge of the dish) mealies out of his dish, I have to pretty much drop them in front of his face or they eventaully die in the dish. I was wondering if there was a way to remedy this...
As for your leo you might try putting them right up to her mouth with tweezers...mine has started to eat from the tweezers.

To keep your mealies from dieing in the dish you may want to try what I do...I put a little bit of the powdery part of the gutload in the mealworm dish with a slice of carrot. I check the dish daily and replace the carrot slice as needed and remove mealworm sheds and pupae. I add more mealworms as needed, too. If a mealworm does die, I just remove it. Once a week I clean the dish and add more gutload and rotate fresh mealworms; I keep 30 mealworms at a time in the dish. Seems to work well for me and the mealworms are always gutloaded.

Just a thought! <grin>

Kathy

 

[Strike2]

To keep your mealies from dieing in the dish you may want to try what I do...I put a little bit of the powdery part of the gutload in the mealworm dish with a slice of carrot. I check the dish daily and replace the carrot slice as needed and remove mealworm sheds and pupae. I add more mealworms as needed, too. If a mealworm does die, I just remove it. Once a week I clean the dish and add more gutload and rotate fresh mealworms; I keep 30 mealworms at a time in the dish. Seems to work well for me and the mealworms are always gutloaded.

Just a thought! <grin>

Kathy

What are you using to gutload and can baby carrot slices be used?

 

[curiousKathy]

I use two different kinds of gutload; one is from cricketfood.com and is the gutload for mealworms, the other is cricket gutload that I buy from the pet store...it's called GUTLOAD and I think the brand is...let me go look...ESU Reptile is the brand and I bought it at Petsmart. It is for all insects and any reptiles...

Hope this helps!

Kathy

 

[gerryl]

try...

wheat bran (well grinded) and carrot (thinly sliced strips)...as for the aim moosassah...to much light and inactive mealies maybe the problem!...try feedin late evenin in low light...or create a dark cave type (tunnel)...then wait until GP is in there and facing the right way a drop a few (active) mealies just inside...should go like hot cakes...best luck:main_yes:

 

[moosassah]

...as for the aim moosassah...to much light and inactive mealies maybe the problem!...try feedin late evenin in low light...or create a dark cave type (tunnel)...then wait until GP is in there and facing the right way a drop a few (active) mealies just inside...should go like hot cakes...best luck:main_yes:

I'll try this too. Thanks.

 

[GECKOMAN]

My male Lancelot has troubles catching crickets and rarley eat mealworms,
but my female lilly great hunter, she will stalk the food all around her tank untill she gets it.Have you tried feeding small crickets? Sometimes I have to
take the crickets legs of. (kind of gross) Crickets have softer bodies than
mealies she might like them more.

 

[acpart]

I have one gecko with really bad aim and maybe bad eyesight. Now I feed her superworms because they're the only thing that are big enough to see and catch easily and they move, but not as fast as crickets. When I fed her crickets I had to block off most of her cage and herd them towards her. Now I still have to drop the superworms in front of her. It does work, though. In the late summer and early fall she's usually above 100 grams.

Aliza

 

[moosassah]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I'll keep working with her. Hopefully she'll catch on. I did buy some smaller crickets last week.