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Feeding Crested Geckos
A variety of small insects and arthropods are eagerly accepted by these geckos. Hatchlings will feed on two to three week crickets and wax-worms. As they grow, provide larger crickets, wax-worms, and mealworms. Adult specimens will take an occasional pinkie mouse. Dust food with a calcium powder about twice a week to provide additional calcium for growing bones. Adults may be supplemented once weekly, unless females are producing eggs. This uses huge amounts of calcium, and supplements should be made daily. Additionally, crested geckos will eat fruit flavored baby food. Peach, nectarine, and banana are favorites, and vitamin or mineral supplements are easily added. Offer small amounts in a shallow dish about three times weekly. Several keepers add powdered bee pollen to the fruit mix, in hopes of duplicating the nutrients content of flower nectar more closely.
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