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Leopard geckos and BIG food.

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I don't know who started the rule about feeding food items no larger than the space between the eyes or why that rule is so popular, but have any of you ever tried feeding oversized prey? It is an AWESOME sight to behold. I couldn't believe it myself, but then I saw this happening in person. What's cooler is that after the leos got used to the adult roaches, they learned to eat only the meat and leave the wings behind. Our little guys are so much more capable than we give them credit for.
 

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Yikes! I am getting the Heebie-Jeebies just looking at the roach!!!!!!! :ack2:
 
As a matter of fact, I have. Last summer this area endured a 17 yr cicada invasion. I just souldnt pass up the free food buzzing and chirping around my head, so when a smaller cicada landed on my balcony railing, I offered it to my leos. Most balked at the size (and/or smell) of the thing, but one of my larger females took it and ate it. Thereafter the others took an interest, and two actually got into a scuffle over the second, which I broke up and then no one ate it! Several others grabbed it chomped it, and then spit it out. :ack2:
 
Pinkies are actually pretty small though. I've fed superworms that were larger than pinkies. But that just doesn't compare to seeing a leo take on a 2" roach. :)
 
Mole-crickets are really big and meaty, could you feed leos those? I mean if you could acquire a "clean" source of them.
 
Survival Theory:
If you can get at least part of it in your mouth, it doesn't taste too funky, and eat IT before it eats YOU, then its deemed "Edible."

I have a male leo that tries to attack and consume my large black temp-probe if its within range...I thought he was being territorial, but then I realized he was truly trying to see if he could "eat" it. (hey, it was moving, right?)

I also have a 12 lb compact yet muscular burmese cat...imagine my surprise when I saw him laboriously hauling something over the lawn...and then realized he'd caught and killed himself a JACK rabbit for supper....holy....the poor rabbit was BIGGER than the kitty.

Maybe that's why man created the Super Jumbo 6-story Quadruple Bacon 2lb Angus Chuck Cheesey Whopper w/Chicken (ever seen a male human swallow one of those without chewing? LOL oh man...um, no pun intended :raspberry )
 
Linz M said:
Maybe that's why man created the Super Jumbo 6-story Quadruple Bacon 2lb Angus Chuck Cheesey Whopper w/Chicken (ever seen a male human swallow one of those without chewing? LOL oh man...um, no pun intended :raspberry )
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DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
speaking of huge food, Aaliyah my laying female decided that the pinkie I put in her cage looked pretty good last night and chomped on it, it sent my company running sick and my fiance and I watched transfixed (he was munching on pizza while watching this by the way). We were all watching a movie and I heard crazy squeaking and ran over to see Aaliyah with that thing in her mouth, well it took her a bit, but she enjoyed every bit. This was no newborn pinkie either, it already had fur starting, so she was quite into it.
 
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Just used the thread search and found this info. I have nothing to add but my questions were answered, I have several roach colonies now due in part to my T's and the move into more geckos. I will recommend this thread and these findings to my friends who were asking the same things.
Thanks all,
Mark D.
 
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