My crested is 5 months old but refuses to eat anything from a bowl /small cup!
He's constantly in a attack mode when it comes to food. Nothing interests him, he's not curious about anything (explore his tank, climb around or be a gecko and climb on the glass, etc).
He doesn't show the slightest interest in any sweets (figs, mango, pear, melon, apricot, honey). He doesn't even lick it off from a finger. Either he attack the finger, licks whatever got stuck on his nose (looking almost disgusted he got tricked into have to eat that crap!)- and then turn around and walk away to show he's done and goes back to hiding another 12 hours.
How do I "reset" this behaviour to make him eat from a small cup and also become more interested in food in general????
Not even insects (dubia, black soldier larvae, wheat worms) in a cup can make him feel comfortable eating them, almost as he doesn't understand how to eat from a bowl as he wants to attack visiously and fast but can not do that into a cup, if you know what I mean.
He doesn't stop by the bowl and grab a bit, so to speak. To him, whatever is in that bowl, isn't food!!!!
And his interest for food isn't big enought to sort of trick him into eating from a bowl, he backs off when i present it infront of him. He ONLY eat when given from a tweezer!!!
He drinks daily water from a bowl though, I forgot to mention!!!!
Do I need to remove him from his 12x12x24 terrarium and put him in a much smaller tank until he starts eating from a bowl or won't this just stress him out to change habitat and make him even less interested in food?
He's 4 gram, tank temp 23-24C, 70-90%.
He's also refusing to eat any kind of brand of cgd and not even insects dipped in cgd before given are of any interests then as they smell cgd....
This is really a funny little guy, I'd say!
Any help or ideas are hightly welcome!!!!!
He's constantly in a attack mode when it comes to food. Nothing interests him, he's not curious about anything (explore his tank, climb around or be a gecko and climb on the glass, etc).
He doesn't show the slightest interest in any sweets (figs, mango, pear, melon, apricot, honey). He doesn't even lick it off from a finger. Either he attack the finger, licks whatever got stuck on his nose (looking almost disgusted he got tricked into have to eat that crap!)- and then turn around and walk away to show he's done and goes back to hiding another 12 hours.
How do I "reset" this behaviour to make him eat from a small cup and also become more interested in food in general????
Not even insects (dubia, black soldier larvae, wheat worms) in a cup can make him feel comfortable eating them, almost as he doesn't understand how to eat from a bowl as he wants to attack visiously and fast but can not do that into a cup, if you know what I mean.
He doesn't stop by the bowl and grab a bit, so to speak. To him, whatever is in that bowl, isn't food!!!!
And his interest for food isn't big enought to sort of trick him into eating from a bowl, he backs off when i present it infront of him. He ONLY eat when given from a tweezer!!!
He drinks daily water from a bowl though, I forgot to mention!!!!
Do I need to remove him from his 12x12x24 terrarium and put him in a much smaller tank until he starts eating from a bowl or won't this just stress him out to change habitat and make him even less interested in food?
He's 4 gram, tank temp 23-24C, 70-90%.
He's also refusing to eat any kind of brand of cgd and not even insects dipped in cgd before given are of any interests then as they smell cgd....
This is really a funny little guy, I'd say!
Any help or ideas are hightly welcome!!!!!
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