Pangea produces six freeze-dried complete gecko diets designed to support rapid gecko growth. They all include nutritious ingredients that cresties enjoy eating and help them thrive quickly.
This food mix is most frequently seen fed to mossy prehensile-tailed geckos, gargoyle geckos (Rhacodactylus auriculatus), and day geckos. While all life stages can benefit, breeding females require extra fat as part of their breeding cycle.
Contents
Protein
Crested geckos require a balanced diet that includes both plant-based foods and animal proteins. Most crested gecko owners opt for complete diets from companies like Pangea Reptile LLC or Repashy that contain all of these necessary nutrients for their pet’s diet, with feedings happening three or four times each week, along with occasional insect meals for maximum nutrient density and variety.
As opposed to live food, these powders don’t require you to keep insects in your home and take up valuable cage space. Furthermore, they can be stored and rehydrated several times without losing any nutritional value.
This complete diet is suitable for New Caledonian giant geckos (Rhacodactylus leachianus), gargoyle geckos, mossy prehensile-tailed geckos, day geckos and all other fruit eating crested geckos that enjoy fruit. When mixed together it produces an aromatic watermelons aroma while its high protein content allows your crested to flourish! Simply blend until it reaches ketchup or smoothie consistency then serve directly from a spoon!
Fat
Many crested gecko food recipes contain some form of protein. Most often this is in the form of whey and milk protein; however, Pangea also includes insects (crickets and dubia roaches) in their Growth and Breeding formula, while their Fig with Insects formula features crickets as an added enrichment element. Supplementing MRP diets with live dusted feeder insects provides additional nutrition and enrichment. Ideally give your crested gecko four or five small dusted crickets weekly in addition to what their prepared diet provides.
MRP-based crested gecko foods do not provide as much nutritional value as a comprehensive diet; as a result, you must supplement their diet with gut-loaded crickets and worms weekly as well as fruit and veg treats; additionally it would be wise to provide extra calcium by providing some stale sardines which the gecko can lick up as it feeds.
Calcium
Crested geckos require ample calcium in their diet for healthy bones and eggs to develop successfully, so this mix provides both and is often chosen by keepers as an optimal solution.
Supplement your crested gecko’s diet with vitamin D3, either in dust form or through products such as Pangea Cal with D3, to assist him with absorbing calcium from his food sources. This will enable his calcium needs to be fulfilled more effectively.
Crested geckos need a balanced diet in addition to supplementation for their health and happiness. Inadequate nutrition could result in Metabolic Bone Disease or other health problems in their animal.
Therefore, it is ideal to feed your gecko a complete diet such as Pangea or Repashy twice or three times each week, along with crickets or other insects as treats at least two or three times each week for optimal protein, fats and vitamin/mineral intake. This will provide them with everything they require.
Vitamins
Crested geckos in the wild feed on fruit, seeds, nuts and insects so providing them with an array of foods in captivity is crucial for their wellbeing – this ensures they receive essential nutrition including an ideal calcium:phosphorus ratio.
Pangea offers an excellent crested gecko diet without bananas called Gecko Diet With Figs & Insects that is designed for New Caledonian giant geckos (Rhacodactylus leachianus), mossy prehensile-tailed geckos (Mniarogekko chahoua), and day geckos (Phelsuma spp).
No matter which complete crested gecko diet you select, it is crucial to provide extra crickets or roaches 1-2 times weekly as supplements. They should be gut-loaded for 24 hours before being dusted with high quality vitamin and mineral powder before offering to your gecko. This step becomes even more essential if housing female geckos with offspring as their young require extra protein for healthy growth and maturation.
