Crix or Diet?

[ANHanguyco]

will clark's diet sub. for crix.? if not waht is someitng good to give them while i feed crix?

[DDReptiles]

Clarks is a substitute for babyfood, you still need to feed live crockets/roaches. If you don't want to feed crickets then you should feed CGD

[ANHanguyco]

what kind or brand do you recomend?

[DDReptiles]

I use Clarks and crickets/roaches

[ANHanguyco]

Could you mix the diet with someting else like the clarks and that be enough to replace crix..... it is really hard to find them whare i live during winter no one fishes. im also scared that the ones i could get in summer will be infected or have bug spray's on them. andthey are Really expensive to ship to Alabama. I hate living in a small town especially in alabama :evil:
Thanks.

[max power]

since im seeing this being asked so frequantely i will let everyone who is looking for an mrp. clark has been working on one for a while now and was in the testing stages last i talked to him, ill email him now to ask him what the time frame might be for it to be available.

[DDReptiles]

Could you mix the diet with someting else like the clarks and that be enough to replace crix..... it is really hard to find them whare i live during winter no one fishes. im also scared that the ones i could get in summer will be infected or have bug spray's on them. andthey are Really expensive to ship to Alabama. I hate living in a small town especially in alabama :evil:
Thanks.


I live in the smallest town in Mississppi (hate it here but decent reptile hunting) and I use Wormman and I get all my shipments on time and the price is average (like 16 bucks for a thousand 25 bucks for 2 thosand etc.) and have never had any problems with them.

[ANHanguyco]

Sounds like a great price, but i live with my parents and they dont like the idea i have the gecko's in the first place ... i would hate to see my mom's face when she realizes im growing crickits in our back yard.... i have fed them the ones u buy at the store but im scared of them. do you think they will be ok

[RangerGrrl]

If you are worried about the cricket situation (sounds like it's not too reliable a source!) , buy yourself some of Repashy's T-rex diet and wean your gecko onto it. This seems to work better when the gecko is young. The T-rex is a complete meal replacement powder; I believe Repashy has used it on something like 8 or 10 breeding generations (thousands and thousands of geckos) and it is great. I also heard he tweaked the formula recently to make the taste a bit better? T-rex CGD is better for those with twitchy roommates or parents.

I love Clark's, but it's not a complete MRP yet. I definitely still use feeder insects. Also, if your gecko just hates the taste of T-rex CGD, instead of mixing it with baby food, try mixing it either with some Bolthouse Farms Green Goodness (it's an organic human smoothie you can get at health food stores or supermarkets in the produce section) or with some actual fruit blended in the blender. Both of these choices are more nutritious than baby food. Just experiment with the mix until you can put the dead minimum of additives into the CGD and still have your geckos eat it.

I hope this helps; at least your parents let you bring a reptile into the house at all, LOL! Mine were terrified; I had to marry a fellow reptile-o-phile to get my way!

[ANHanguyco]

HAHA... well i kinda bought them without parents knowing :smile: but yes thank you that helps ALOT. \\:D/ i will try this CGD. my mom is terrified of the crix but not so much the gecko's so..... im having to find alternatives to the cirx at the moment i am feeding calcium filled bananna babyfood lol not very good for them but it is better than nothing i guess. it is harder to sneak Loud Crix into the house than it is to sneak the gecko's in. took mom 2 month to realize i had my first one and almost 4 to realize i had 2. :smile: i live upstairs so she doesnt see my room very much. so im safe at the moment. :smile: boyfriend helps with them alot though he is in the process of building Massive cage for them. a 3' tall X 4' longX 1' deep cage with divider in the middle for male and female quarters. him being a vet tech i beleve anything he mentions bout my babies. ...... but back to the subject thanks Bunches :mrgreen: \\:D/

[JLeo]

Wow that is going to be a huge cage. T-Rex crested gecko diet is a substitute for crickets and is at least better than baby food and calcium, that isnt much nourishment. Crickets arent that bad, I'm sure you could sneak them in and they'd never know ;) .

[ANHanguyco]

ha but quiet things she doesnt realize are here... crickets aren't quiet.

[Niqui13]

Crickets are quiet if you trim their wings! (It doesn't hurt them, they grow back. But mine are always eatten within a day or two, so I've never had any wings grow back.)

Only the males make noise. The females are larger, fatter and have an ovipositor. (I little one inch stick looking thing comming out of their back end.)

http://www.chameleonnews.com/year2003/jan2003/crickets/crickets.html (Look at the picture on this page!)

Just trim all the males' wings and no more noise.

Hope this helps!!!