What is a good diet for a lepord lizard?

Question

she needs to have something very nutritional and healthy

Answer 1

Blunt-nosed leopard lizards feed primarily on insects particularly grasshoppers, crickets, moths, and other lizards and occasionally plant material.

Answer 2

I am going to assume you are talking about leopard geckos since they are so popular these days.  They eat a diet of crickets and meal worms with an occasional wax worm as a treat.  My daughter volunteers at a local reptile rescue center and they have tried (and failed) to feed their geckos commercially bought gecko food.  The problem is they hunt and if the food doesn't move, they don't even realize it's food!!  I have been able to feed my 2 leopard geckos canned insects, but I have to wiggle it around and make it seem alive..and even that doesn't always work.

Answer 3

You should use crickets or meal worms. I wouldn't recommend wax worms very often, because they have nearly no nutritional value. I use crickets for my leopard gecko. I have a separate "house" for them. in the house is a pile (for lack of a better word) of food. You can buy commercially made cricket food and mix it with calcium powder. I would say about 2 tbsp of the food with 1 -2 tsp of the calcium. This is also what I feed the meal worms. They also will need 2-3 sponges for water. Not kitchen sponges, but at pet stores, they sell sponges that are safe for animal use. I always find them in the hermit crab areas. you need to dampen these every other day or so. if you were to give them a bowl of water, they would drown themselves. Seriously. This will keep you gecko's food for quite some time. I don't change the stuff too often, maybe twice a month I take everything out and wash the enclosure, but I add new food once a week to keep it fresh. You can treat them with small chunks of carrot, potato, or lettuce to add extra nutrients. Don;t leave it in there longer than a day, those things rot fast... and that doesn't smell so nice. And if you are wondering why I've just explained how to feed crickets and meal worms, it's because your gecko eats what the crickets eat.. so if you have full and healthy food, your gecko will be full and healthy.

The only issue I run into with the crickets is that they get really big really fast, so I try to feed those ones first. I buy about 15-20 every 10 days or so because I use them so much. When i did this with mealworms (which wasn't very long), I ran into a few issues. first, the meal worms didn't do a whole lot of drinking water, so they need the food chunks, and I am just too busy to make sure to give them new carrots every day. second, they change phases too quickly. Remember that meal worms are only part 2 in a 4 part creature, the Darkling Beetle. After as little as a few days to a week, the mealworms will change into the pupa stage that is really scary, because they look like aliens. Again, this is why I didn't do this with mealworms very long. I had one get all the way to beetle, and it really isn't fun to wake up and find beetles where worms once stood.... EWW.

If you are wondering how you would get the crickets out to feed them to your gecko, don't worry! I've got it covered! I use a small bowl that has a lid and I simple back them up against a wall one at a time and put the lid on, walk the little guy over to the cage, and dump him in and go grab the next one!

I definately prefer crickets for my baby, they are easier to care for, don't turn into grody beetles, and keep her active!