Hi Margaret,
Green, seedless, organic grapes. I dice them to very small, about 3mm
square cubes. It is time consuming, but she will usually eat all of
them. I typically give her non-prey food in a cleaned out Nantucket
Nectars/Snapple juice top, filled to the top with the runny baby food,
and more with diced fruit. I have not heard of the fruit you mentioned.
The moth predation is amazing to watch. I try and introduce them just
after the lights go out and she starts her prowl. Usually she is slow
and deliberate in her movements. However, when a few moths are flying
around her enclosure, she seems hell bent on getting them - she can
really move quickly.
I got her as a six week old and have fed her insects and fruit all
along. She has never refused to eat at least some insects. Usually she
gets all the crickets and wax moth larva, and most of the mealworms. I
have resisted the temptation to fatten her up and make her grow as
quickly as possible, instead trying to raise her so that she grows
slowly and so don't feed her everything and anything. Note: I am not
trying to starve her, just let her mature slowly and steadily. I am
waiting for her to get a little older and then I want to start breeding
her. She is about a year and two months old now. She is a big and active
girl.
Have you tried the food scenting method? I think snake keepers use this
to get specialized/finnicky eaters to take more standard fare.
Basically, scent the food you want them to eat with food they readily
eat. I don't know if this will work with geckos or not.
Good luck,
Yuri
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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