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Anonymous
Hey /an/. Simple question.

I've had a leopard gecko about 4 years now. Unfortunately, I spend most of the week away at college now, and I don't have time to feed her myself. (i can't take her with me) And no one in my family really cares. I can barely get them to BUY the crickets, let alone throw them in the tank every few days.

So long story short, I bought her some dry, already dead food, but I don't think she's eating it. How do I get a lizard that only responds to moving food to eat out of a dish?
>> Anonymous
Perhaps your girlfriend could take care of it for you.
>> Anonymous
I'd try to get her to eat the dried food in your presence first, maybe move it around some, see if she'll get it in her mouth and realize "oh! this is edible!" Though most of the leopard geckos I've met took to eating out of a dish very quickly, especially lapping up the supplement powder stuff.
>> Anonymous
They have vibrating food bowls for exactly this reason.

The next time you're at a pet store, try to find one, you just set the dead crickets in the bowl, turn the bowl on and it'll shake the crickets as if they were alive. Leos who are live-fed usually only eat prey that's moving, so it should eat them up if you use something like that.

Your parents will still have to put them in the bowl and switch the bowl on until he finishes eating though.
>> Anonymous
>>168837

http://www.petdiscounters.com/c11/Exo-Terra-Vivicator-Vibrating-Feeding-Dish-p5194.html?PETDISCO=o07
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>> Anonymous
>>168834
but I'm a girl :[

and thanks a lot for the tips, I'll see if I can can her to eat some, she's very stubborn. Will look into those vibrating bowls too.
>> Anonymous
>>168855
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>> Anonymous
>>168855
There's no women on the internet, stop pretending
>> Anonymous
I think your family won't do the dead food vibrating bowl thing either. That actually seems like it would be more trouble than just buying some crickets and tossing them in.

I would recommend butterworms. They have two times more calcium than most other feeder insects, and they last over a month in the fridge. It's about 20 bucks for 100, but two or three is more than enough for a leopard gecko's meal. They are one of the primary insects I feed my Crocodile skink.
http://www.mulberryfarms.com/horn2.htm
That's one place you can get them.

There are also many feeder insect websites that'll ship crickets on a schedule for you. So maybe you should look into that. Of course your family would still have to toss the bugs into the cage. You need to think of a way to get them to do that.
>> Anonymous
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>> Somarinoa
Also make sure your crickets have some sort of 'buoy' in the lizard's water dish so they can escape when they jump in there. Because they will. Because they're idiots. And if you don't, that's money wasted, especially since yours doesn't seem to want to eat the dead.

If its tail starts to get thin, buy it some Waxworms, too; they're high in fat.

Trust me -- I've got 5.
>> Anonymous
>>170775
It would be dumb of her to just leave several weeks worth of crickets in the cage.
The Leopard gecko would get bitten to death, and eventually be eaten.
Wax worms are terrible. Pretty much all they are is fat.
She should just have her family feed it Butterworms while she's gone.