--it will be too big for them and they'll throw it up (I find this sometimes when I give my babies crickets or mealworms that are too big)
Aliza
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ive already mentioned this in another thread where you mentioned the large crickets and i suggested you went to medium. or stick to mealworms.
Just feed what is recommended and what is right, because there is a reason for these amounts. Too much has many dangers. especially when they are young.
well the 'Large' crickets i know are like almost 2 inches long. and i dont have any geckos with their head as wide as two inches.
and as long as the geckos head is wide, so if yours is a juvenile then im guessing his heas is this wide:
|.............| at the most. and thats not a large cricket size.
and the sand, i know, makes it seem like a VERY trustworthy caresheet. not.
Feeding "one large cricket a month" is not going to "get his weight up." It's only going to cause health problems like regurgitation and possibly impaction. If you want a gecko to gain weight, multiple small prey items are the way to go. Feed hatchlings 3-5 small insects a day and they will grow at a normal rate. "Power feeding" a technique sometimes used by unscrupulous breeders, especially in ball pythons, is only going to cause abnormally accelerating growth and shorten the animal's life span. Feed appropriately and allow him to grow at a normal, healthy rate.
I misunderstood the sizing suggestion for a while, and then someone said it a different way so I got it. The distance between their eyes is the GIRTH of the prey item, not the length.
I buy small and stick to small if buy a lot at a time they will grow bigger in their environment. Better to feed more (quanity) then to feed less quanity with possible health issues. Or switch to mealworms. My AFT is fed on small/medium crickets... My leo was switched to mealworms recently but her first year was also small crickets and I had absolutely never had a problem with her weight... if anything she may be pushing on the chunky side lol.... It also helped me at the time cause I had an AFT an adult Leo and a Baby Leo. So I bought one size instead of having to have multiple cricket habitats.
In the future get multiple opinions. Read more than one article on the subject you are inquiring about and ask "before" you act or make a decision. Its always best. In many cases you may have the right idea but better safe than sorry when their is a life in your hands.