Cyndy...
I'm not surprised with your Ensure experience. When I first started
using it, I mixed it 50/50 with Pedialyte. Too much Ensure!!! It's way
to rich. I now mix 3 or 4 parts Pedialyte to 1 part Ensure.
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> 2 things I can add ( I have been hand feeding a Fat Tailed gecko for 1
> year) When I tried Ensure and bug smoothy, the gecko bloated like a
> balloon. I also use the A/D I have found that if you squirt a little on
> one of the gex nostril it will start licking it off. Then you can keep
> squirting a little at a time while the gex keeps licking. I have moved up
> to getting him started licking with the A/D and then holding a bug
> against the side of his mouth and he licks it and then grabs it. We have
> gotten so good at it, it only takes about 5 minutes to feed him.
> If you are wondering why he won't eat on his own. His previous
> owners quit feeding him and he starved down to 25g and got MBD. He now
> weighs 65g, but won't feed himself.
> Cyndy
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:59:14 -0700 Julie Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> > Good information from Trace! Keep in mind the dog food is not meant
> > to
> > be a long term food. If you have nothing else handy I would not
> > hesitate
> > to use it. It would be easy to eliminate the dog food part and just
> > grind up crix or mealworms using Ensure as the liquid.
> >
> > Julie Bergman
> > http://www.geckoranch.com
> > GGA lifetime member
> >
>
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