How to Feed a Gecko

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Johan Svahnström on behalf of Expert Village. Now, to the feeding of your leopard gecko; really important. A lot of people tend to only give them one thing to eat all the time. Try to get a variety of food for your leopard gecko. Now, they don't eat a whole lot of different things, so you've got to think about that. Now, one of the most common staples for a leopard gecko is crickets. You can get crickets almost anywhere. Crickets are great and they are definitely a staple for your geckos. If you do feed them a lot of crickets, it's important to use some type of a vitamin to dust the crickets with. Take a little plastic cup like this, buy a vitamin, a reptile vitamin, you can get it anywhere. There's several different brands. I use this one for now. Put a little bit of that vitamin in with the, in that cup, just a little bit at the bottom. And that's where you're going to put your crickets. And you're going to kind of shake it around a little bit. Make sure the crickets are dusted with this stuff, turn your light off, and just drop them in there. For two lizards, you know, you might want to give them three or four crickets once every two days. There's two different types of worms that I use. I use the meal worms and the wax worms. The meal worms come in a variety of different sizes. If your lizards are really small, you can buy real small meal worms, then there's medium sized, and then there's these super worms that I like use with my big ones. When you feed them these things, do not put them just out into the substrate, because you'll never see the worm again. Try to keep it on a lid like this, and don't put too many on there at one time. Just keep one or two at a time, and kind of monitor your lizards when they eat them. Another great worm to use for your leopard geckos are the wax worms. I like those a lot, especially for smaller geckos. They're soft and they're easier to digest, and they're real easy to catch. They're little fat ones like this. And I've never met a gecko that hasn't loved these."