which is better?

[tyler19]

I bought a small leo from ***** thati just couldnt let sit there annymore all alone. since i have gotten her she has not eaten one single meal worm or wax worm but i have not tried small crickets. do the smaller ones usually like the crickets better?

 

[tyler19]

This is her...

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

How long have you had her?

 

[tyler19]

going on 2 weeks now

 

[LeapinLizards]

Woah, she hasn't eaten anything in 2 weeks? Not good!

What I would do is get some medium sized mealworms, and let her go after those. I have a couple hatchlings that will not touch anything other than crickets, I think it's a prey drive thing...they like to hunt them.

It's worth a shot! I can imagine after 2 weeks of not eating she's rather weak.

Worst case scenario, she doesn't go for the crickets, so you whip up some of Marcia's Golden Gate Geckos slurry to get some fluids and nutrition in the poor thing.

 

[Geck-O]

Are you handling her before feeding? They don't eat if they are stressed out.

 

[RepBex]

about the pray drive thing if you put a mealworm ontop of the heat pad they move loads and i found that catches their eyes more

 

[LeapinLizards]

Crud!!! I posted that at like midnight last night, and what I MEANT to say was MEDIUM SIZED CRICKETS lol, not mealworms. I'm sorry!

And about what Geck-O said...I handle my little ones all the time before feeding (I like to clean their tanks before I feed every evening), and they are just fine. It really depends on the gecko. If they haven't been handled often or are very new, then I would refrain from it close to feeding time. In my experience, it hasn't phased my geckos, even the little one I got from the same chain you got yours from...I held him right when I brought him home, then plopped him in his new tank, threw some med. sized crickets in, and he went to town

 

[hoppslover]

It couldn't hurt to try crix. I have all of mine on mealies and roaches. But try anything that is an appropriate feeder if they refuse to eat what you give them.