Leopard geckos are insectivores, feeding solely on insects – no vegetables or meat products!
Repashy Grub Pie offers an easy and healthy alternative to live feeder insects for insectivores, serving as both a complete diet as well as topping off their regular food with black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) for optimal digestion. Its innovative formulation utilizes high quality ingredients from around the USA.
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Keep Insects in a Separate Container
Leopard geckos are insectivores, meaning they rely on an insect-based diet for sustenance. A balanced selection of crickets, dubia cockroaches, locusts, mealworms and phoenix worms should provide ample sustenance. Incorporating treats such as hornworms (for special treats) or silkworms as vitamin-rich alternatives will further ensure their wellbeing.
Before feeding to your gecko, all live food should be gut loaded for 24 hours to help ensure proper digestion of its nutritional contents. A bit of moisture may also help aid this process.
As part of your leo’s feeder insect care, it is recommended to dust them every other feeding with high-quality calcium powder and multivitamin supplements like Repashy Calcium Plus or ZooMed’s Multivitamin Powder. In addition, dust them every third feeding with high-quality vitamin D3 supplement for maximum benefit.
Dust Insects in Nutrient Powder
When feeding gecko insects, it’s essential to give them all of their essential vitamins and nutrients from food sources. Not only is this good for their skin and avoiding overfeeding and becoming fat, but it can help ensure their safety from overeating!
Your local pet store likely carries various nutrient supplements designed for leopard geckos, but for optimal results it’s best to mix your own. Doing this allows you to fully understand what’s going into their bodies; some contain vitamin D3 in appropriate doses while others contain too much, leading to problems such as metabolic bone disease in reptiles.
When selecting a vitamin D3 supplement, it is wise to avoid ones which combine calcium with it as leopard geckos may lick it up and consume too much vitamin D3 which could be dangerous.
Dust Insects Every Two to Three Feedings
Black soldier fly larvae is an effective way of providing additional nutrition for gecko’s insects, making feedings easy. You can easily find these online and can stockpile as needed; plus they are easily gut loaded into gecko stomachs without needing powdered calcium supplements with D3.
Leopard geckos should be fed every day when young, while adult geckos should only require food once or twice every week. For non-variety diets or those who neglect their calcium tray, feeder insects with multivitamin and calcium supplements should be dusted onto each feeding – Repashy Grub Pie and Leopa Gel offer convenient all-in-one products which contain both.
Repashy’s “Grub Pie” food is another excellent food source, packed with essential vitamins and minerals for fruit-eating reptiles and amphibians such as bearded dragons, skinks and chameleons. It can be fed as gel, powder or paste and is safe for both herbivores and frugivores alike.
Keep Insects Clean
Keep your leopard gecko happy and healthy by offering variety. In nature, these lizards eat other lizards, insects, spiders, and scorpions; when living in captivity it’s essential that their diet includes an array of healthy foods to ensure its effectiveness as a source of nutrition.
Remember that leopard geckos are insectivores, so the majority of their diet should consist of live insects. At each feeding, you should offer two appropriately-sized bugs per inch of length of your gecko.
Crickets, dubia roaches, mealworms and calci worms are excellent insects for leos to consume as treats. Waxworms and hornworms should also be given occasionally as they contain high amounts of fat.
Repashy offers a selection of supplement powders designed specifically for omnivores, herbivores and frugivores (leos included). These products should be sprinkled onto their food during every feeding time – popular choices include Zoomed’s ReptiVite which features the correct calcium:phosphorus ratio as well as an amino acid complex and vitamin blend.
