Feeding a leopard gecko freeze dried crickets and mealworms?

Question

Has anyone fed their leopard gecko or even any gecko freeze dried food and waved it in front of the lizards face with tweezers or their fingers, has the lizard easily accepted it?

Answer 1

In a  natural setting, leopard geckos like to consume insects, spiders, worms and grubs. If you have one as a pet, the primary foods that should be fed to a leopard gecko are crickets. If you wish  to make your leopard geckos happy and healthy, then its better to  feed your leopard geckos with crickets most of the  time.  However Feeding them with waxworms and mealworms can really  be a good dietary plan.

Answer 2

Live insects are a must for your gecko; they do not eat plants or veggies. The best items to use are mealworms or crickets, but you can treat your pet to waxworms or superworms once a week if you wish. We have used regular mealworms and crickets without health issues for since 5 years. Avoid feeding leopard gecko’s pinky mice.

All insects must be first given a nutritious powdered diet for at least 12 hours before being fed to your leopard gecko. This process is called “gut loading,” and it is very important to the health of your pet. Chick or hog mash is available at all feed stores, and several good commercial diets are available for this purpose, as well. Simply place the insects in a tub of gut-load diet with a piece of potato to serve as a source of water.

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Answer 3

After a problem with my gecko's crickets escaping in my house I have been working on switching him to freeze dried crickets.  I found that holding the cricket with a pair of tweezers and waving it in front of his face usually works.  Just be careful to hold the cricket at one end or the other so the gecko will not bite the tweezers.  If this doesn't work, try gently poking him in the face with the cricket and pulling it away when quickly.  After a few rounds of this he will eat it as soon as it gets near his face.