Crested geckos need a balanced diet that includes fresh fruit, vegetables and live insects. They should eat three to four times a week, with fresh fruits making up up to 75% of their meal.
You can easily give your gecko a variety of fruits by offering them whole, sliced, or mashed into a slurry. Just make sure to remove any skins or seeds before feeding.
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Fluker’s Premium Fruit & Insect Diet
This one-stop-shop food for your scaly buddy has everything you need to keep your pet happy and healthy. Mealworms, bananas and blueberries are just some of the ingredients that go into this easy-to-mix powder. The top notch formula provides the optimal level of vitamins, minerals, trace nutrients and carotenoids to ensure a healthy life for your gecko.
The best way to administer this tasty meal is by using the included scoop to mix in water as you would a standard pellet diet. For the most part, the recommended ratio is one scoop per 10 ml of water. This diet is ideal for gecko of all sizes, from infants to seniors. Ideally, you should feed your koala every day to maximize its lifespan. To ensure a healthy and happy gecko, follow this advice: Always offer fresh fruit daily as well as live prey at least twice a week! The most important rule of thumb is to never let your pet starve!
Gargeer Complete
Gargeer Complete is a high-quality diet that is specifically formulated for crested geckos. It features a blend of whole, nutritious ingredients such as fruit, vegetable, and insect meal that are all rich in vitamins, minerals, and protein.
Crested geckos are omnivorous in nature, but they can also accommodate well to a frugivorous diet. This makes them a great option for beginners who are looking for an easy to feed lizard.
In addition to fresh fruits and vegetables, crested geckos should eat crickets and other small insects (roaches, waxworms, silkworms) as part of their diet. You can get this type of food in commercial crested gecko diets, dehydrated or freeze-dried insects, and live insects.
If you want to give your gecko a little more variety, you can also feed them fruit and vegetables three times a week in addition to live insects. Bananas are a very popular food item for cresties, but they should be offered only once or twice a week due to their high sugar content.
Exo Terra Crested Gecko Diet
In the wild, Crested Geckos feed primarily on mature fruits, nectar, pollen and flowers; but will also hunt insects or small prey. This is why Exo Terra formulated this nutritious food blend that contains a variety of natural fruits and appropriate amounts of protein to create a healthy diet for your pet reptile with desirable texture.
As with any reptile, the humidity level of your crested gecko habitat is crucial. This is why it is recommended that you mist your gecko’s enclosure daily to help keep the humidity levels at between fifty and seventy percent.
It is also important to offer your crested gecko live crickets at least once a week. These feeder insects can be dusted with Repashy Calcium Plus and are a good source of vitamins, minerals and calories.
Exo Terra Fruit & Veggie Diet
Crested geckos are frugivores meaning they primarily eat fruits, flowers and nectar in the wild. They are also occasionally found to consume insects and small prey.
Exo Terra Fruit & Veggie Diet has been specially formulated to provide a variety of nutritious ingredients that will be well received by crested geckos of all ages and sizes. It is rich in protein and vegetables, fortified with vitamins, minerals and amino acids.
This crested gecko food comes in single-serve cups that can be placed easily within a terrarium. The convenient cups prevent desiccation and allow for proper portion control. The food is a balanced mix of insect and vegetable protein, and has no artificial colors or flavors.