Eating Question 2

[Jerboa]

Ok, so it's been a week since crickets and they only ate the baby food one time that I could tell. A few licks had been missing, etc. Anyway, I do see them sitting on the edge of the cricket dish every night though looking into the bowl thing like they feel that there should be crickets there to eat. Should I put the baby food in the cricket bowl? Would that make them eat it? Another option would be to take them out of their kritter keeper and put them in one that doesn't have anything in it and put the babyfood in there and sit them by it so they know it's food? Let me know if any one of these would work and any suggestions you all may have.

[kavmon]

are you trying to switch them over to a diet or babyfood? i feed mine mainly crickets and i supplement babyfood feedings. try mixing the babyfood with the crested diet mix.


vaughn

[sukieblur]

I would try taking the cricket dish out and putting the babyfood dish in it's place. Also, make sure that it's a flavor that they like, mine love banana.

[Jerboa]

I have not switched to CGD yet. I'm still only using babyfood with vitamins and calcium powder mixed in.

[Marla]

Try mixing the CGD with fruit juice or nectar, or with the babyfood (they will probably prefer some flavors to others -- try banana, apricot, peach, or papaya if you haven't). I didn't realize you were trying to feed babyfood exclusively. Babies need a good amount of protein in their diet, and they will suffer fairly soon without it. The CGD or the gargoyle gecko diet is formulated for them and has the nutrients they need.

[Jerboa]

I can't get my CGD to solidify at all. It seems to just be watery and then a mealy/crunchy sludge after that. I followed the directions on the bottle, but they don't seem to create what it says it will.

[kavmon]

i just use a small baby spoon. mix it 2 parts water to 1part diet. mix it well sometimes i ad a little peach babyfood to it. it will look real soupy at first then it should become more solid in an hour or so.


vaughn

[sukieblur]

I mix my CGD with a little less water than it says. It seems to make a better mixture that way. Also, I add about the same amount of babyfood as CGD. This thickens the mixture, and both of mine really seem to enjoy it.

[Marla]

Yep, it definitely takes a little time to "set" the mixture (half an hour maybe?), as I guess the slower-absorbing parts do their thing. You can do what I do and mix up a bunch of it and freeze it in ice cube trays (I use small ones, or you could just make short cubes) then thaw out as needed. That way you don't have as much babyfood go bad.

[sukieblur]

I dunno that I would want to freeze the CGD. It might change the makeup of some of the supplements and make it less effective.