My CG is around 8 mo old and still does not see Pangea (or any cgd, any flavour, honey or fruit) as food.
"If you can't attack it - it's not food!"
He has no curiousity for anything but insects.
From the day I got him 5 months ago he has had no interest in crested gecko diet!
His curiousity for anything but insects is non existing!
I can put in mashed bananas, pear, apricot, Pangea with insects or other flavours,
- but he actually backs away from it, litterly runns off and hide as soon as he realizes that what I put in was not dubia or BSFL (black soldier fly larvae).
If I somehow do manage to put some on his nose he quickly licks it off and turn around and jump off.
If I dust the insects with Pangea powder or D3 he is now also refusing to have even that!!!!
For many months I filmed him (IR) during the night to see what he was up to, to hopefully see him take a sneak lick on Pangea, but and he did not even get close to the then 4-5 bowls of CG placed on different places and hights!
He avoids them, walk quickly pass them, as they are unatable trash.
He lives in a 45x45x60 cm terrarium full of plants and the right moist and temperature and light. He's not afraid of my hands so I can mess around fixing in the tank without him being bothered or stressed.
Someone suggested that he should be moved to a smaller terrarium as that would make him more secure, and so I did. But that didn't do it either as after 8-9 days he still hadn't even looked at Pangea and was looking miserable and unhappy with clear sight of the ribs. I tried to offer him Pangea on a wooden shopstick or finger each day while in this smaller kritter, he just backed off very clearly. Did not want it. During this time I did not feed him any insects.
He. Does. Not. See. CGD. AS FOOD! Help, what more can I do???
All I do day in and day out is cleaning the terrarium, mist it and throw away untouched Pangea and fruit.
This is important for me to fix as if I would have to go to hospital I can get help feeding him with Pangea and mist, but not to give him insects!
Also he will eventually get sick with being a insects only diet!
In the wild the geckos surely must intuitively must feel the need for more nutrison, right? So why isn't this one?
"If you can't attack it - it's not food!"
He has no curiousity for anything but insects.
From the day I got him 5 months ago he has had no interest in crested gecko diet!
His curiousity for anything but insects is non existing!
I can put in mashed bananas, pear, apricot, Pangea with insects or other flavours,
- but he actually backs away from it, litterly runns off and hide as soon as he realizes that what I put in was not dubia or BSFL (black soldier fly larvae).
If I somehow do manage to put some on his nose he quickly licks it off and turn around and jump off.
If I dust the insects with Pangea powder or D3 he is now also refusing to have even that!!!!
For many months I filmed him (IR) during the night to see what he was up to, to hopefully see him take a sneak lick on Pangea, but and he did not even get close to the then 4-5 bowls of CG placed on different places and hights!
He avoids them, walk quickly pass them, as they are unatable trash.
He lives in a 45x45x60 cm terrarium full of plants and the right moist and temperature and light. He's not afraid of my hands so I can mess around fixing in the tank without him being bothered or stressed.
Someone suggested that he should be moved to a smaller terrarium as that would make him more secure, and so I did. But that didn't do it either as after 8-9 days he still hadn't even looked at Pangea and was looking miserable and unhappy with clear sight of the ribs. I tried to offer him Pangea on a wooden shopstick or finger each day while in this smaller kritter, he just backed off very clearly. Did not want it. During this time I did not feed him any insects.
He. Does. Not. See. CGD. AS FOOD! Help, what more can I do???
All I do day in and day out is cleaning the terrarium, mist it and throw away untouched Pangea and fruit.
This is important for me to fix as if I would have to go to hospital I can get help feeding him with Pangea and mist, but not to give him insects!
Also he will eventually get sick with being a insects only diet!
In the wild the geckos surely must intuitively must feel the need for more nutrison, right? So why isn't this one?
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