What do you feed your crestie?

[Aneesa's Muse]

My gang gets CGD regularly ..as a staple... and a few B. dubia roaches, depending on age (more frequently for the little kids.. less for the big girls).

I don't like the noise or the smell of crickets...

[crazy4reptiles88]

Mine use to eat crickets but isn't intrested in crickets anymore because I always have to take them out now!! So he eats strickly crested gecko diet.
Melissa

[blackcrystal22]

CGD Only, and Phoenix worms if he'll take them.. but so far no luck. I'm not having luck feeding my geckos. My crested gecko, I never see eat and the GCD never moves.. He doesn't react to any moving food. I dab his mouth every other day with a little GCD for him to lick off though.

My youngest leopard gecko won't eat unless I entice her to do so.. and even then I have to open her mouth a little and put it in for her to start to eat it.

Silly geckos..

[George1994]

Does anyone feed their Gecko Locust?

[kir.davis]

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

I am new to the Crestie world but based on my reading, you don't have to feed crickets as long as you feed the gcd. The crickets and other insects do add some nice nutrition though which will help make your gecko "fat and happy." They will grow bigger and stronger. I don't think I can do crickets again, I had a very bad experience where one cricket kept attacking my gecko even though it was gut loaded for 2 days prior and I have my gecko in a separate feeding tank so no crickets get left behind. Needless to say, my gecko did not like this and I am not sure her will eat crickets after this. I'm thinking of dubias, or some sort of worm. 1. they freak me out less and 2. I do not believe they will attack my gecko. I need to do more research on that though.