Commercial crested gecko diets offer an easy way to ensure that your lizard receives all of the nutrition it requires, with live insects added for stimulation and extra protein intake.
Diets generally come in powder form and need to be mixed with water until the desired consistency is reached. Single serve cups may even be available to reduce mess and waste.
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Repashy Crested Gecko MRP Diet
Repashy Crested Gecko MRP Diet is an ideal nutritional option for all frugivorous geckos, such as Rhacodactylus, Phelsuma and Gekko species. Packed full of all of the necessary vitamins, minerals and nutrients essential to its survival as well as fruit ingredients and vegetable proteins for maximum variety and nutrition, this meal provides all that your gecko needs to thrive and flourish.
Made of freeze-dried banana, dates, figs and watermelons with hibiscus and marigold flowers as a base, this simple powder provides crested geckos, Madagascar day geckos, leachianus anoles skinks chameleons with essential vitamins, minerals and carotenoids for proper development and functioning. Plus it’s fortified with protein rich whey and dehydrated egg fortified with fat for easier absorption and utilization by your gecko!
Starting off, this product should be mixed with two parts water for easy preparation and ready to be used immediately from its bottle. Although initially it may appear watery, as time passes it will thicken up and should eventually have the consistency of ketchup.
Pangea Crested Gecko Fruit Mix
Crested geckos are beautiful reptiles, yet providing them with a diet that closely mirrors their natural habitat can be challenging. Cresties typically eat live insects as well as ripe or decaying fruit in the wild – however there are now several freeze-dried complete crested gecko meal replacement powders to make feeding your pet easier!
Pangea Fruit Mix Complete Gecko Diet provides optimal levels of calcium for strong bones and optimal egg production. Furthermore, this food includes vitamins, trace minerals and other vital nutrients essential for optimal growth.
Banana Papaya formula has long been a favorite among crested gecko owners. Made of over 50% real banana and papaya fruit without seeds, nuts or seed meals. Plus protein from whey isolate and dried egg whites make this food great for all New Caledonian crested geckos such as gargoyle geckos, leachianus geckos, chahoua geckos or day geckos!
Repashy Crested Gecko Insect Diet
Crested geckos are generally insectivorous in their natural environment, yet can happily consume various fruits and vegetables in captivity. Many of these produce must be soft enough that they rot away easily – this is important since crested geckos have very small mouths with very few teeth; otherwise they would find it hard to bite through tough unripened fruit.
Commercial crested gecko diet powders typically include a variety of fruits to appeal to their tastebuds and are nutritionally balanced; many also act as natural sources of calcium that may help prevent metabolic bone disease.
Live feeder insects are a staple diet item for crested gecko owners. Crickets are the most frequently fed to pet roaches or dubia roaches; black soldier fly larvae or insect meal can also provide high quality protein sources.
Pangea Crested Gecko Insect Diet Powder
Pangea’s industry-leading diet, known for encouraging geckos to clean out their bowl, includes crickets, black soldier fly larvae and organically-grown mealworms for extra omega fatty acid sources. Plus it’s banana-free so great for picky crested geckos and other frugivorous species! Plus the mix may be thinner than some of Pangea’s other diets!
This diet features sweet fruit flavors to please most geckos and is composed of insects (crickets and black soldier fly larvae) as the primary source of protein to replicate natural insect diet. Pangea conducted research, development and testing for two years on their largest collection of geckos to make sure this food met all their standards for safety and success.
It is best to give this diet daily or alternate it with live dusted insects a few times each week. Since this powder needs to be mixed with water, use 2.5 parts water to one part powder when mixing the recipe.