Pangea Gecko Breeding Formula was specifically created to meet the specialized dietary needs of reproductive crested geckos. With an assortment of bananas and papayas for an enthusiastic feeding response, and high fat content to support egg production. Finally, calcium levels remain optimal to provide complete diet coverage.
Contents
Insects
Pangea geckos depend on insects for sustenance, serving as prey, predators, parasites, hosts and decomposers for an optimal and diverse diet. Insects provide essential benefits in providing their prey with nutrition as they serve multiple roles such as predation.
Crested geckos that do not receive insects may grow slower and become lazier, providing your gecko with enrichment, exercise and an assortment of diet items while also adding variety. Insects offer enrichment for enrichment as well as exercise for their diets.
For those unable to provide live insects on their own, we advise providing Pangea Gecko Diet: Growth & Breeding Formula along with supplemented insect feedings 2-3 times each week. This formula features higher protein and fat levels ideal for breeding crested geckos while still being tasty enough for all life stages.
As part of their breeding season diet, we suggest supplementing this high-fat mix with captive-bred hornworms (Manduca genus hawk moth caterpillars) as an additional source of protein and fat. With their lower Ca:P ratio than wild-caught insects, captive-bred hornworms provide much safer nutrition.
Fruits
Fruity combinations provide geckos with an appealing feeding stimulus and supply essential protein and fat levels required for reproductive crested geckos to remain fertile throughout their breeding seasons. A diet rich in fruits can make an attractive breeding diet choice as this formula will encourage eggs production during breeding season.
Pangea Complete Gecko Food is specially formulated to meet all of the calcium needs for optimal bone and egg health, in addition to offering plenty of dietary fiber and other crucial ingredients that support digestive wellness. In addition, this recipe includes various fruits and vegetables for added nutrition.
All of our gecko foods are specially formulated to be free of Anti-Nutrients like Oxalates and Phytates that bind minerals and prevent their absorption, meaning you won’t find seeds, nuts, seed meal, cereal grains or other ingredients that contain these harmful chemicals in our products.
Frequent fruits feedings for fruit-eating geckos such as crested, gargoyle, leachianus, chahoua and day geckos can bring added value for these creatures, whether as part of an individual feeding or included in complete gecko food packages.
Vegetables
Pangea Reptile LLC makes popular complete gecko diets because they use multiple sources of protein (whey, milk and egg) while also being free from artificial flavors and fillers that could slow their development.
Vegetables are an abundant source of essential vitamins and minerals. Aiming for foods high in calcium while low in phosphorus as well as antinutrients like oxalates and goitrogens is optimal. Escarole, endive, alfalfa greens as well as hibiscus flowers or prickly pear leaves make excellent vegetable choices.
Pangea also produces a gecko breeder formula with increased levels of fat and protein to meet the specific requirements of reproductive crested geckos. For optimal results during breeding season, extra insects may need to be offered along with generous dosing of mineral and vitamin supplements.
Nutrients
Prior to meal replacement powders becoming widely available, hobbyists used fresh fruit mixed with baby food as a meal replacement source for crested geckos and other frugivorous lizards. While this provided variety in their diets, essential nutrients were lacking from these recipes.
Pangea Gecko Diet Banana Apricot Complete is specially formulated to offer crested geckos an adequate diet that’s high in calcium and other key nutrients, extensively tested with one of the largest collections of crested geckos in the US – Crested Geckos, Gargoyle Geckos, Leachianus geckos, Chahoua geckos and New Caledonian/Day geckos alike love our food!
This food can either be fed as an exclusively complete diet with only occasional insect feedings, or mixed with our Pangea Gecko Diet Breeding Formula to encourage picky geckos to consume their complete diets. Formulated to ensure maximum bone density and egg production as well as optimal calcium absorption rates by having low levels of oxalates to ensure proper calcium absorption by your gecko.