One of the most essential aspects of care for crested geckos is providing them with a balanced diet. There can often be conflicting advice online and at pet shops regarding what their feeding regimen should consist of.
Jelly pots can be an excellent treat for reptiles. Packed full of high protein, they rehydrate quickly, and come in an assortment of flavors to please even the pickiest eater. Just remember to gut load and dust before offering!
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Insect Food Jelly
This six pack of insect jelly provides your pet insects with a nutritional diet. Containing both sugar and vitamins, jelly is resistant to low and high temperatures and can even be stored in the fridge if necessary. Plus, unlike fruits or veggies it won’t mold – ideal for feeding to cockroaches without having to gut load first!
ProRep and Exo Terra stores sell jelly as a nutritious alternative for crested geckos to consume as a complete insect diet or simply as an occasional treat. Soaking it in water will create gel form which your pets can then consume raw or soak again to make a gel that they can consume raw with, while increasing recreation meter by 8%; but, like any raw food source it has the risk of food poisoning at 2% risk.
ProRep Jelly Pots
Jelly pots are high-energy, sugary treats designed to meet the hydration and nutritional needs of various feeder insect and reptile species. By providing essential hydration and nourishment for their continued wellbeing, these high-energy, sugary snacks extend life expectancies and ensure good health in insect species alike. Plus, gut loading them allows them to digest their meals more easily for enhanced nutritional benefits!
These jellies come in an assortment of fruity flavours to please all of your reptiles and can be fed as regular part of their diet or occasionally. You can either place it in standard jelly pot holders, or submerge it in soil substrate for terrestrial invertebrates like beetles and millipedes. Furthermore, jelly can even be mixed in small amounts with greens to encourage animals to accept new foods more readily.
Crested Geckos, Day Geckos and Anoles especially enjoy licking the jelly surface of this food source. Additionally, feeder crickets and cockroaches benefit from drinking this liquid source which prolongs their lives while providing essential nutrition.
Swell’s Jelly Pots
Swell’s Jelly Pots offer fruity flavours that reptiles such as crested geckos will adore, making these pots ideal for providing hydration to feeder insects and providing a balanced diet to reptiles alike. Plus, the jelly made with vegetable gel and natural fruit extracts provides a tantalizing treat that reptiles love! You can mount one using our handy Jelly Pot Holder.
Pots can be placed so they are easily accessible to animals, and removed once full. This makes them suitable for many insect eating reptiles such as crested geckos and other arboreal species, and their jelly is made from high-quality vegetable gel fortified with protein and natural flavors – perfect for feeding insect eating reptiles as well as animals that require vegetarian sources of nutrition such as insect eating reptiles.
Komodo Jelly Pots
Komodo jelly pots are high-protein vegetarian food fortified with vitamins that’s designed specifically to meet the dietary requirements of insects such as crickets. Their multiple fruit flavours make them irresistible to fruit-eating reptiles like day geckos and crested geckos; you can mount or drop jelly into substrate for enrichment purposes if they remain uneaten or start spoiling prematurely. It is important to remember that jelly pots should not become the sole source of nutrition; any left uneaten should be removed immediately in such cases or should start spoilage occurs as soon as they start going bad.
As reptile keeping has become more widespread, we need to provide high-quality products tailored to their individual needs and welfare requirements. One such example are our Komodo Jelly Pots; these make an ideal way of keeping live reptile food nourished while giving your pet all of the health benefits that they require – not to mention adding an attractive touch to any crested gecko habitat!
