This Forum and a few newbie thoughts

[LateNightGrubber]

First and foremost, hello to the community and thank you for all of the great advice/information/entertainment that I have enjoyed the past two weeks. My first thread so here it goes.

I recently came into the world of leos and after reading up on them, and countless hours spent here I should add, I went ahead and got a few from Garrick at crested gecko. I am so happy that I went ahead and ordered from him.

So after a week of being a leo owner, I have two of four that are not interested in eating at all. I have offered supers, mealies, phoenix worms, and butterworms. I offer the mealies every night and two girls eat em up, but the other two will not even look at them. I was wondering if there was a way to make the worms more attractive by being more active and squirmy. Also, I have not attempted to mix breeds of worms together in the same dish but wonder if it can be done.

Thanks in advance for any future advice, and for all of the information I have already soaked in.

 

[roger]

First and foremost, hello to the community and thank you for all of the great advice/information/entertainment that I have enjoyed the past two weeks. My first thread so here it goes.

I recently came into the world of leos and after reading up on them, and countless hours spent here I should add, I went ahead and got a few from Garrick at crested gecko. I am so happy that I went ahead and ordered from him.

So after a week of being a leo owner, I have two of four that are not interested in eating at all. I have offered supers, mealies, phoenix worms, and butterworms. I offer the mealies every night and two girls eat em up, but the other two will not even look at them. I was wondering if there was a way to make the worms more attractive by being more active and squirmy. Also, I have not attempted to mix breeds of worms together in the same dish but wonder if it can be done.

Thanks in advance for any future advice, and for all of the information I have already soaked in.

welcone to GF.just make sure your husbundry is ok. temps, 2 hides one on the cool end and one on the warm end,supplements.it may take leos a couple of weeks to get used to their surroundings.leos need a range of 88-95 deg of belly heat to get their metabolism going .house them seperately as there may be some bulling going on.

 

[LateNightGrubber]

Thanks Roger. I have the UTH set on a thermostat for all of these guys and the warm side stays 92-95 consistently. cool sides are around 80 daytime and 75 at night, my room temps stay pretty warm.

As for seperating them, i have three 40 gal. tanks, the two that are eating are females of same size and age and sleep together in the same hide every morning when I wake up. The picky ones are housed individually, so they should have an appetite here soon. I may pick up some crix, i always used them for my anoles but I had to leave them at me ex girlfriends. So now I am a leo guy. And I also have an iguana, names Bossk, 5 years old, super fat. he would eat all day if I let him lol

 

[T-ReXx]

There are leopard geckos who aren't interested in worm prey, but they are rare. I suspect it's just a matter of them needing time to settle in as Roger mentioned. You can try crickets, or you can try putting a small piece of carrot in the dish with the worms; this causes the worms to feed and become more active, often it makes them more attractive to geckos.

 

[LateNightGrubber]

well I just gave my male jungle about 50 worms in his dish lol he seems to notice them now. Thanks for the carrot tip, i may give that a try here.

 

[roger]

u seem to be on the right track with everything.Im definately sure they just need to get acclimated to their surroundings.let them settle in nicely

 

[TranceZ]

Welcome to the site, I actually drove to Garrick's shop about 2 weeks ago to pick up a male Raptor and a breeder rack system. Garrick's a very nice guy! Good luck with the geckos!

 

[robin]

welcome to geckoforums!