Do geckos need to eat every day?

Do geckos need to eat every day?

Leopard Geckos younger than one year should be fed every day. Healthy adult geckos should be fed every other day. Sickly geckos should be fed once a day until they regain their strength. If your gecko is a problem eater, feed it normally, but leave a dish with worms in its tank in case it wants to eat later.

How often should I feed my day gecko?

Most geckos will eat three to five insects twice weekly and fruit baby food mixed with a commercial nectar substitute once a week. Juveniles and breeding females should be fed five to seven times weekly. Feed them in the morning when they are most active.

Can giant day geckos eat fruit?

In addition to Gecko MRP, Giant Day Geckos can be offered a variety of real fruit, especially the tropical fruits. When you can’t find fresh fruit, canned fruit such as mango, papaya, or red banana can be a welcome treat and will also add variety to the diet.

What Should I Feed My Giant Day Gecko?

In the wild, they consume various insects, fruit, small lizards and even small mammals if given the opportunity. This diverse palate makes feeding giant day geckos in captivity simple. They accept commercially bred insects such as crickets, waxworms, mealworms and cockroaches.

How do you feed a giant day gecko?

Generally, hatchling giant day geckos should be fed ⅛-inch crickets and gecko diet mix as hatchlings. As they grow older, ¼-inch crickets, and later ½-inch crickets and Black Soldier Fly Larve, can be added to their diet. As adults, they can continue to be offered gecko diet mix once a week as well as ¾-inch crickets.

Will Day Geckos eat their babies?

However, this species is very unusual in that they don’t pay much attention to the babies, and very rarely eat their own offspring. In the case of the other species of day gecko I keep, and in fact the vast majority of geckos, the hatchlings are in great danger of being snacked on by daddy or mommy.