Hey Bluebell! I'm getting a baby gargoyle gecko in a few weeks and even tho I've done tons of research, I'm still not sure about a few things! How often/how much should you feed them? Is it better to feed crested gecko diet with bugs or something like bug Pangea? Also do you have a few thing you wish you would have known when you got yours? Thank you so so much!!
Ahhh! :D Preemptive congrats on the new baby!
So I feed baby gargs about ¼ teaspoon of pangea mixed with ½ teaspoon of water every other day. This is probably too much, tbh, because it’s hard to see if they’ve actually eaten anything. But I find gargs prefer it when there’s more food available.
I usually rotate between pangea flavors, but I offer either bug pangea or live bugs once a week. It… took my gargs a while to get used to live bugs. I think Pi was around 9 months old before he took his first live roach. Their diet is mostly frugivorous (fruit-based) in the wild, so pangea should be their main meal. (Or repashy, or Big Fat Gecko, or Black Panther Zoological; these are all crested gecko diets with good reputations).
Things I wish I knew:
baby geckos are faster than u think.
It’s very common for them to not eat. Look for poops to reassure yourself that they are eating
They grow much slower than you think
They eat better from elevated cups
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