My Leopard Gecko will not eat dried flies?

Question

I have a baby Leopard gecko that will not eat flies it will eat crickets but not the food I got in a jar like the flies that you have to add water to. why? and should I be worried about it?

Answer 1

If you want a happy and healthy gecko. feed it live small meal worms,

some wax worms when it is bigger .Only feed it that dead c**p when there is nothing else.

Answer 2

My daughter volunteers at a local reptile rescue center and we adopted 2 leopard geckos.  The first thing we learned was if the food doesn't move, they don't think it's food.  The hunt by movement.  You can still feed them canned insects, but you need to make it move around first.  I sometimes use canned crickets if I run out of live ones..I hold them with feeding tongs and wiggle them in front of the gecko's face.  Your best bet is to just use live crickets and meal worms.

Answer 3

just a picky eater prolly....

Answer 4

Maybe, just maybe your gecko doesn't like them.  I'm sure there are thousands of other types of insects it WILL eat.  You just found one.  

Answer 5

Your gecko is a predator by nature, no matter the age.

Okay... do YOU want a wilted salad which is all brown, or one which is fresh and crisp?  Same principle.

He hunts.  It's difficult to get a lizard to take a dead insect, unless it's also a salad eater, and you can sprinkle them on top.  Leos don't eat salad.

Your Leopard gecko does not eat vegetables, but its FOOD needs to, so it can get the nutrients it needs from them.

GUT LOAD for insects:

=Equal parts of dry: oatmeal, iguana food, and chick starter mash should be provided for the insects at all times (keep unused portion in refrigerator or freezer till needed).

=Suppliment daily with fresh fruits and vegetables (water cress, apple, kale, pear, collard greens, peach, green bean, orange wedge, pumpkin-zucchini-yellow-butternut-acorn-... squashes, mango, and any other nutritious vegetable/fruit you can think of).

=Avoid Avacado (poisonous), Spinach & broccoli (bind calcium), and cabbage.

Dust the Leo's gut loaded insects in reptile vitamins and calcium powder with D3 (keep these refrigerated to prolong the life of the vitamins) every other day. Provide a bowl of calcuim w/D3 in the habitat. When you see that your gecko is taking calcium from the bowl as needed, you can stop dusting his insects with it, and just continue dusting with the reptile vitamins.

http://www.dachiu.com/care/abeard.html

http://hubpages.com/hub/Metabolic_Bone_D...

Please do not feed your gecko meal worms or keep it on a loose substrate:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Impaction

The gecko will need a moisture hide:

http://www.leopardgeckowiki.com/wiki/ind...

Enjoy your Leo and I hope this has been helpful.

Answer 6

Reptiles can survive for quite a while without eating so for starters don't worry about it just yet.

Most insectivorous reptiles would prefer to eat their prey alive rather than eat a reconstituted fly.  I mean... if your diet was crappy enough to consist of insects would you really want to be downgraded from there?

Answer 7

you gecko is probably confused and doesnt understand that its food, because its not moving.

ive heard you can buy vibrating food dishes, but i think you would be best off just feeding your leos live food.

make sure you dust them with calcium (:

Answer 8

They like things that move.Try some small mealworms and waxworms,but dust them with calcium first.

Answer 9

Crickets are a good diet for any lizard(there are exceptions like iguanas) I don't know why he'd be refusing them. but I haven't fed to my lizards but I haven't seen any either. Don't worry about it. As long as he's growing and he's getting/got a fat tail he's fine.

Charlotte x