Marbled geckos are large, robust lizards with a tan to olive base color and white or black blotches that create an appearance resembling marble or tree bark.
These geckos thrive on a diet of crickets sprinkled with vitamin and calcium powder. Additionally, they can be fed mealworms and waxworms.
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Insects
Geckos feed on insects primarily. Crickets, mealworms and silkworms are all excellent food sources for them.
Mealworms should only be offered sparingly, as they can clog your gecko’s digestive tract or lead to impaction. Furthermore, dusting gut-loaded insects with a calcium and multivitamin supplement before feeding them is ideal.
Marbled geckos are voracious eaters, often feeding on insects such as crickets, mealworms, butterworms and silkworms in small amounts. Adult males may also occasionally receive pinkie mice for sustenance.
Maintain your marbled gecko’s health and happiness with a balanced diet of small feeder insects and a shallow dish of water. Additionally, it is essential to change the water daily in order to prevent any sloughing issues from arising.
Fruit
Wild marbled geckos feed on insects such as mealworms, wax worms and silkworms as well as fruits. Furthermore, they occasionally consume small flies or crickets for sustenance.
Fruit is the result of ripened ovaries that have matured into seeds (either one single ovary or an aggregate of multiple ovaries). It may be sweet and succulent or dry and pulpy depending on its state of ripeness.
Fruits typically grow from a fertilized ovary, though some produce multiple seeds like apples and peaches. The wall pericarp of an ovary may be fleshy or form a hard shell around the seed in some instances – either way, you get fruit!
Fruits range in size, from a tiny seed to an enormous berry or drupe. The pericarp may be thin or tough, and the ovule inside an ovary may become fleshy or have a hard outer covering (similar to nuts).
Vegetables
Geckos are typically arboreal creatures that climb trees to feed on fruit, flower nectar, insects and other plants. As such, they make excellent pets that you can easily mimic their natural diet by offering them various fruits and vegetables from your home garden.
As a general guideline, adult geckos should be offered an assortment of fruit and vegetables three to four times per week. This should include soft fruits such as apples, bananas, peaches, berries, as well as more firmer options like pears.
Fruits should be fortified with calcium, vitamin D3 and other essential minerals (known as gut-loading) before offering them to your gecko, so that they receive balanced nutrition to stay healthy. Feeder insects like mealworms, crickets and Dubia roaches should also be given these same essential nutrients before being offered to your pet.
Water
Water is an integral component of a marbled gecko’s diet, providing them with essential calcium. Additionally, it aids in their health by providing various essential vitamins and minerals.
To guarantee your gecko gets the correct amount of water, provide them with a shallow dish which should be changed daily. Marbled geckos tend to soak in their water so be sure to regularly clean out their enclosure.
Arboreal species such as these prefer climbing surfaces, so make sure there are plenty of branches, vines and other objects for them to explore. Burrowing is also encouraged, so use a substrate like peat moss or reptile carpet when providing food sources.
These small insects such as crickets, mealworms and wax worms can be fed a variety of different small insects like crickets. A powdered calcium and vitamin supplement should be dusted over these foods 1-2 times a week to give them an adequate source of calcium.
