ZooMed Leopard Gecko Food

[johnnyboy4783]

Has any ever used the product Zoomed Leadared Gecko Food? It is a container of like dried fruit flies.

 

[gezzmo]

yes, none of my geckos even touched that, forget that...

 

[johnnyboy4783]

haha yea i bought it to try and it hasnt been touched either

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Geckos are predators, and need something alive and moving to catch their interest to eat. Besides, freeze-dried bugs probably don't have the proper nutrition... and certainly don't have the moisture the geckos need in their normal diet.

 

[johnnyboy4783]

oh i dont use it as a staple diet. i just wanted to try something new and see if it is anygood.

 

[lazzara8478]

I have a Brand new bottle that Ive had the day I bought my first Leo... The guy at the Pet store told me I needed it....LOL

 

[Pookachu]

Just out of curiosity has anyone ever tried those vibrating feeding dishes?

Well, my gecko's seem to be doing fine with just mealies and crickets. I just recently acquired a few baby (1 month old) bearded dragons and while I do have crickets for them I ended up with a bottle of the bearded dragon pellets for babies.

Naturally the dragons do not even take notice of them but I wonder if they jiggled a bit if they would find it more appealing.

 

[Ccrashca069]

Yeah I bought one of those ZooMed Leopard Gecko kits when I first got leopard geckos. I spent only $8.00 for the kit had water dish,food dish, vitamins, calcium and those freezed dried things.

 

[Ccrashca069]

I think those vibrating food dishes are a waste of money.

 

[Mack Leo Boy]

I agree with Marcia. Leopard geckos are predators and eat only live food. Plus the flies prably don't have the nutrition that they need. STUPID pet stores!! I hope I was allowed to say that.

 

[Leopardbreeder]

I got a vibrating dish. I got it for $2.50 at Petco because the box was ripped! I would never get one that was over that price though. I think they are total junk. Anyway, I cannot afford almost 20 of them and they are too bulky.

 

[Rejoice in the Lord]

I have a container of those dead flies. It's two years old now, and I don't believe any of my geckos have touched even one of them. For the first few months, I occasionally offered them some in a dish, and then dumped them out of the dish untouched; but now they are just sitting in the bottom of the gecko supplies tank . . .

 

[BettaDragon]

My geckos never touched them. However I've found that crickets will greedily run away with them. I got them when I first gecko too because I was told I *needed* them. I just use them as an extra thing to use as gut load because they're covered in vitamins supposedly.

 

[GroovyGeckos.com]

I do believe you are supposed to ad some water to those when feeding. I had a gecko in the past who would drink the water from the mixture, but not eat the flies.:main_rolleyes:

 

[Rejoice in the Lord]

My container said that you could feed them dry or mist them. I never tried soaking them. It didn't matter which way I offered them, my geckos were not interested . . . well, I haven't tried Mokey on them yet . . . then I heard that they didn't make good gecko food anyway, so I put them up for until I figured out what to do with them.

Hmmm . . . Cricket gutload . . .maybe I should be getting them out again

 

[BettaDragon]

My container said that you could feed them dry or mist them. I never tried soaking them. It didn't matter which way I offered them, my geckos were not interested . . . well, I haven't tried Mokey on them yet . . . then I heard that they didn't make good gecko food anyway, so I put them up for until I figured out what to do with them.

Hmmm . . . Cricket gutload . . .maybe I should be getting them out again

It's quite comical if you put them near a cricket. They literally pick them up and run off with them to go munch on them.