All of my cillys will eat wax worms and tiny crickets ans the tiny mealworms.
I will have to try runny baby food.. Margaret have you seen my begging
cilly? Burke in Ca
Margaret Both wrote:
> 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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