What do you feed your crestie?

[Kagez28]

i just wanted to throw this out there to see what everyone likes to feed their crested gecko. if crickets how often?

[ZEKESMOM]

My 2 always have a dish of gcd and one gets crickets every day because he eats them...the other will only eat them once or twice a week.

[Sausage]

Just CGD for mine.

[mlededee]

mine get crickets once, sometimes twice per week. the rest of their diet is cgd. i recently started a colony of lateralis roaches, which once they are producing quickly enough, may be added to their diet.

[Rapture]

I try to keep CGD available at all times, and I feed 6-12 crickets once a week.

[mlededee]

I try to keep CGD available at all times, and I feed 6-12 crickets once a week.

sounds like one fat, happy gecko!

[frankykeno]

Ack mine is a picky eater but when Sprocket decides to eat he prefers mealies over crickets. He always has CGD and another small dish with some peach baby food in his enclosure....sometimes he'll eat...sometimes he won't. Em is kindly sending me some new diet to try with him and I'm currently searching for a good supplier of phoenix worms to try those with my picky boy.

[monk90222]

Mine get CGD everyday and a few dozen medium crickets every 2 weeks. On ocassion they get papaya baby food for a treat.

[Kagez28]

well know that i got my cricket supplies and little critter keeper for them, i can start buying in bulk and not 6-8 from the pet store every week. i plan on giving grendel crickets every 4 days, with cgd in between. if i can find a nice local supplier of phoenix worms i would like to throw those in once a week, but so far no luck.

i want my guy (if he turns out to be one) to be a nice healthy fat gecko

[fishmommy]

hold on everyone! am I to understand that you don't HAVE to feed crickets to cresties?

I would love to keep cresties but have avoided them because I thought that crickets were necessary (and I HATE crickets!).

wow...this could be a life-altering bit of information for me
I better go read up on some crestie caresheets