Hi Yuri
What type of grapes? Red, green,seedless? I will try making the mashed
fruits more runny and see if that helps. None of my 13 will eat either the
wax or mealworms. I have not tried the moths as the last time I tried them
on my old chameloen the non animal people in our family got rather grumpy
about the escapees. My daughter who is the only other reptile/animal person
is away at U of Guelph with her Leo's and Prairie dogs.
Sometimes they eat crickets willingly and other times ignore them.
Tomorrow is feeding night so I will try the runny mashed. fruit. There was
something in something I read about a fruit called freycinta bancusii I
think Any ideas. It is something they eat in New Caledonia.
Margaret
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yuri Huta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Gecko] where reptiles are banned and ciliatus?
> Margaret,
>
> My female R. ciliatus relishes diced grapes. Of course I buy organic
> only and skin them and then dice them into 3 mm x 3 mm cubes. I give her
> apple mango, papaya, apple blueberry, as well as other assorted fruit
> baby foods and she eats some of it, but the grapes she seems to like
> very much. She will also eat vegetable, and vegetable meat baby foods
> with gusto. Crickets, occaissional meal worms and wax worms are eaten
> with gusto and I give her large moths from outdoors which she chases
> around the tank while snapping her jaws at them - you can actually hear
> the snap sometimes.
>
> She has not refused to eat anything, although she does seem to prefer
> certain foods over others.
>
> One thing that I add to her fresh fruit, fruit and veggie baby foods is
> pollen (from local food coop) as well as supplements.0
>
> Come to think of it, what I have found is that if I water down
> especially thick preparations of food, she usually eats more than if it
> is presented as a thick goop. I usually try and have it prepared so that
> the consistency is such so that if I were to angle the dish, the food
> would spill out quickly. It is thinner than apple sauce, but thicker
> than plain water.
>
> Yuri
>
> Margaret Both wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > Does anyone else have ciliatus that positively refuse fresh ripe bits of
> > mashed fruit? Baby food is devoured but I have tried mango,
papya,banana,
> > prickly pear and a few other weird and very expensive things and they
ignore
> > it.
> > Margaret
>
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