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Crested feeding question

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For those of you that do feed your cresteds baby food or pureed fruits... what kinds do you use? I have heard mixed reviews on using dairys such as "mixed fruit and yogurt" or berries such as "bananas and strawberries" or meats like chicken or turkey and beef broth? If you are going to lecture me about not feeding baby food to cresteds please save us both time and don't I have been lectured but I have had better results with feeding the baby food along with crested gecko diet and when I fed just the crested gecko diet they didn't do as well and didn't seem to like it as much.
Thank you for your imput!
 
I think it's okay to supplement CGD with baby food - i've heard of people starting their hatchlings on baby food/pureed fruit, and then gradually switch them over to CGD by mixing it. I would just try to use organic baby food. There is also a product I use that helps to stimulate the appitite: it's called "Jurrasifruit", and they have strawberry and I think banana flavored one too. It's a spray that you add to their food to make it smell and taste better. I use the strawberry, because it's my females favorite flavor, and real strawberries aren't very healthy for them. (too much sugar, I think).
As for the meats, I have no clue. I've never heard of anyone feeding them broth or whatnot.
 
Yea a lot of my friends have cresteds and they all feed baby food as well and they are all healthy but as far as the berries go I have had mixed reviews I will try the banana and strawberry mix they love bananas but I have some baby food that has blueberries in it as well so I just didn't want to give them something that wasn't good for them! And the same question with the yogurt lol!
 
The yogurt stuff, I really don't know about - ya never know, cresties might be lactose intolerant! But other fruits should be okay as long as they are given in moderation. However, there may be a particular fruit they aren't supposed to have, but I just don't know of any. But someone here will correct me if I'm wrong!
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I only put baby food in my CGD for stubborn feeders to get them eating more and consistently. I've noticed recently that some of my baby geckos barely touch their plain CGD :/
I go 1 part water, 1 part baby food, 1 part mix.

The only two flavors I've used are peach and banana... they love peach and banana works.

Now I should mention that using baby food is frowned upon because it can make geckos obese (if that's all you feed them) and you risk supplying too much or too little minerals/vitamins when mixing supplements into it (and if you don't supplement you have the perfect recipe for MBD). Geckos like baby food more because it is much more sugary.
 
Thanks guys! And actually when you mix CGD with anything but water it takes out a lot of the nutrients it has so I always offer that by itself but will mix baby food with a little bit of CGD and some calcium and offer that to them as well sometimes. I have just been told mixed things about berries and yogurts. I thought I would post and ask because I didn't want to put something that would hurt them in there! And as far as it making them obese I have not ran into that problem, they seem to be very healthy (and as I mentioned before I experienced problems when I stopped giving them baby food for a while)
 
blondebabe567855 said:
And as far as it making them obese I have not ran into that problem, they seem to be very healthy (and as I mentioned before I experienced problems when I stopped giving them baby food for a while)
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I've heard it is problem when baby food is a large part or all of the geckos diet.

I personally wouldn't offer any thing with dairy as I doubt geckos are made to handle it. Basically for me, baby is a great tool to get geckos to start on CGD and then I wean them off once they are eating well.
 
more on this... on another forum I belong to, there's talk about it being bad to feed CGD as the main source of food and I'm being advised to feed mainly crickets with baby food/CGD as a supplemental food source. All the care sheets I was reading prior to getting my cresties advised CGD was the best option for the main diet. Now I am confused. What are cresties natural diets? Fruit/berries and nectar or are they mainly insectivorous?
 
AbsoluteApril said:
more on this... on another forum I belong to, there's talk about it being bad to feed CGD as the main source of food and I'm being advised to feed mainly crickets with baby food/CGD as a supplemental food source. All the care sheets I was reading prior to getting my cresties advised CGD was the best option for the main diet. Now I am confused. What are cresties natural diets? Fruit/berries and nectar or are they mainly insectivorous?
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Wow, what forum is that? Every gecko forum I've been on says baby food is evil lol

I'd have to look it up but I'm pretty sure these guys eat mainly ripe-overripe fruits and insects as they find them. I'll look it up later tonight when I get home from college.

You can feed CGD by itself but I find it preferable now to supplement it with crickets at least once a month.
 
I work at Petsmart and my pet care manager says that mixing CGD with anything except water pulls out all the nutrients that it has in it. And I usually feed them dusted crickets one to three times a week and at least once every two weeks they don't get the proper protein if they are just getting them once a month. As far as baby food I understand what everyone says about the sugars and all but I have had great experience with it and bad experience not using it.
 
I personally don't find pet store advice good a large majority of the time. It varies from store to store ( so no offense if he is really knowledgable). However, I do wonder how baby food would magically zap the nutrients out?
 
thanks for the info!!

bad-one said:
Wow, what forum is that? Every gecko forum I've been on says baby food is evil lol
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Ah, no, they were pretty much saying to feed ONLY crickets and that was it. I think I'll offer them a couple crickets (the little one doesn't appear to be eating yet) but keep up with the CGD as well.
 
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