Jelly pots provide reptiles with an easily accessible source of nutrient rich food that adds essential vitamins and minerals.
Jellies make an excellent treat for crested geckos, but should not form part of their regular diet. Since jelly pots contain no nutritional value whatsoever, feeding solely jelly pots could lead to diabetes and malnutrition issues in your pet.
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Nutritional Benefits
Jelly pots make an enjoyable treat for leopard geckos, but should not become the primary source of nutrition. As these treats contain sugar-laden syrups that could lead to mouth rot if fed too frequently, jelly pots should only be fed occasionally to your reptile pet.
Leopard geckos require a healthy diet consisting of live and frozen feeder insects, vegetables and occasional fruit as well as an easily accessible shallow water dish that remains clean. When offering meals to your leopard gecko it is advised to offer two appropriately-sized insects for every inch in length of their total length.
All live feeder insects for leopard geckos should be gut loaded and dusted prior to giving them as food, in order to ensure that they contain sufficient vitamins and nutrients that help ensure a nutritious meal is consumed by your reptile and avoid malnourishment. Supplement foods should contain calcium for Metabolic Bone Disease prevention.
Enrichment
Crested geckos require a variety of nutrients in their diet in order to remain healthy and thrive, and having a diversified diet also supports behavioral wellbeing. While some owners may dislike feeding live insects, there are alternatives such as powdered meal replacement supplements that provide all of the same essential nutrition while being easier for owners to handle; plus they’re less costly and move slower so your pet gecko can easily hunt them!
Dubia roaches provide a more humane alternative to crickets, being lower noise, easy to breed, and suitable for daily feedings to your pet. Plus they contain calcium-rich content making them excellent food options for leopard geckos – available as bug gel or added directly into their water bowl! Not only are dubia roaches more nutritious than crickets while less likely causing mouth rot; they are also an essential source of phosphorus for metabolic bone disease prevention (skeletal deformities and lesions).
Gut-Loading Insects
These jelly pots offer an innovative food-based enrichment option. Packed with fruit and vegetable gel fortified with calcium lactate, their natural flavors include apple, banana, blueberry, cherry, lactic acid and mango – perfect for insects or reptiles that do not require animal protein!
Jelly pots should not be fed to leopard geckos because they contain too much sugar, which could potentially cause diabetes in these creatures; rather they should only be used as treats.
Gut loading feeder insects is essential to the welfare of leopard geckos. Feeder insects provide crucial nutrition and water sources. Without adequate gut loading, the feeder insects could end up eating low-nutrient food that causes metabolic bone disease (MBD). MBD can lead to irreparable bone damage which could even prove fatal for young geckos.
Dietary Needs
Leopard geckos are insectivores, feeding on both live and dead insects in their natural environment. Due to this eating style, leopard geckos may go for days or even weeks without food when conditions don’t favor their survival.
Proper nutrition for reptiles is absolutely necessary to their wellbeing. Incorporating two appropriately sized insects per inch of total length for leopard geckos. Also use Zoo Med Reptivite with D3 available from Northampton Reptile Centre when dusting all foods.
As lightning bugs and fireflies contain chemicals which are toxic to leopard geckos, it’s wise to refrain from feeding them such insects. Their chemicals may also irritate their digestive systems and result in regurgitation and weight loss, particularly during their ovulating period.
