What Fruits do CGeckos like/can eat?
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Aimless
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mine like pretty much anything sweet and/or tropical, that is not citrus.
peach, pear, mango, blueberries...the different geckos have different tastes, though. for the most part all 5 of mine will eat any fruit I give them, but there is one picky guy that only eats super sweet stuff, like really ripe peach.
peach, pear, mango, blueberries...the different geckos have different tastes, though. for the most part all 5 of mine will eat any fruit I give them, but there is one picky guy that only eats super sweet stuff, like really ripe peach.
Elizabeth Freer
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A warm welcome to Geckos Unlimited, CrestedL. 
My crestie usually eats crickets. Picked up some Pangea Complete watermelon/mango powdered diet on Saturday. George just loves it! The other good Pangea Complete diet is banana/apricot.
My crestie usually eats crickets. Picked up some Pangea Complete watermelon/mango powdered diet on Saturday. George just loves it! The other good Pangea Complete diet is banana/apricot.
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CrestedL
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That sounds good :0 no wonder he likes it, and I heard crickets are a great idea for growing the crested geckos too, although I wish I could find some roaches but my local pet store doesn't seem to have anyA warm welcome to Geckos Unlimited, CrestedL.
My crestie usually eats crickets. Picked up some Pangea Complete watermelon/mango powdered diet on Saturday. George just loves it! The other good Pangea Complete diet is banana/apricot.
thank you for the welcome ^_^
Tongue Flicker
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A friend's crestie eats overripe figs and occasionally fruit-based gerber. What a spoiled baby, right?
CrestedL
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Figs sound good, but I wouldn't want to take my chances with baby foods, I don't want my gecko to get hooked >_<A friend's crestie eats overripe figs and occasionally fruit-based gerber. What a spoiled baby, right?
GeckoGuy2142
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My Crested loves her Cricket night's. I will have to try feeding her fruit. I always have some of the Repashy Crested Gecko Diet in there for her; although she enjoys walking in it and climbing all over the glass from time to time.
CrestedL
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A good fruit to start with is papayas, they have a calcium rate of [calcium : phosphorus] of 4.5:1 which is really good because you don't want a lot of phosphorus, but another good one is raspberry which is 1.8:1
Elizabeth Freer
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Click the United States Departmentt of Agriculture link to check the calcium and phosphorus contents of different foods: Foods List
This link shows that raw papaya has 2x the amount of calcium to phosphorus:
http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/s...t=&count=&max=25&offset=&sort=&qlookup=papaya
This link shows that raw papaya has 2x the amount of calcium to phosphorus:
http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/s...t=&count=&max=25&offset=&sort=&qlookup=papaya
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CrestedL
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Thankyou Elizabeth for the link, lots of good information there
another good website that I used was Crested Gecko Fruits High in Calcium | moonvalleyreptiles.com , but it seems the website you gave has a very informative database, thank you
Elizabeth Freer
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As far as I know, that still makes papaya an excellent fruit for cresties!
CrestedL
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YepAs far as I know, that still makes papaya an excellent fruit for cresties!
my crestie apparently prefers raspberry over papaya though >_< but at least it's not terrible, calcium is still over phosphorus rate for it
Elizabeth Freer
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Yep
The USDA link says raw raspberries have a little more phosphorus than calcium.
Click: Show Foods
Wonder where moonvalleyreptiles.com got their information.
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CrestedL
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They do? The website I had said they had a [Ca : Ph] of 1.8 : 1
Elizabeth Freer
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Thankyou Elizabeth for the link, lots of good information there
Yep
According to the USDA Foods List for raw raspberries:
Calcium = 25
Phosphorus = 29
for raw papaya:
Calcium = 20
Phosphorus = 10
Have you found that information?
The info is all right there in the links I gave. I gave separate links for papaya and for raspberries. Not sure whether you saw how those levels differ from moon valley's levels.
Without knowing what the source of moon valley's data is, I would believe the United States Department of Agriculture link over moon valley.
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CrestedL
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:0 thankyou for the correction, I'm glad to get that fixed up before I made a mistake, could have hurt my gecko more than helped, thankyou very much
Elizabeth Freer
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You are welcome.
Feeding a huge amount of variety kinda balances things out, sometimes.
Check my edits of post #16. We were posting at about the same time.
Please tell me: Did you figure out how to type in any food on the USDA link and scroll down the info to find the calcium and phosphorus levels?
CrestedL
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Yea, I figured out how to use it, thankyou for pointing out the post I missed too ^_^ I feel like that if I didn't know that moon valley was wrong I could have done some damage to my gecko >_<You are welcome.
Feeding a huge amount of variety kinda balances things out, sometimes.
Check my edits of post #16. We were posting at about the same time.
Please tell me: Did you figure out how to type in any food on the USDA link and scroll down the info to find the calcium and phosphorus levels?
Elizabeth Freer
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Very good. I'm glad.
It's hard when going back and forth quickly to catch everything. At least I am NOT posting from a cell phone.
There is a huge amount of erroneous information on the internet. For instance, some insect and worm breeders post nutrition levels of their feeders as well as the other feeders "out there".
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