Lepisma wrote:Any suggestions for easily maintained staple feeder insects for an adult Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus)? Mine doesn't eat her superworms and mealworms fast enough; they outgrow her size range long before she eats them and now I'm drowning in bugs since I can't order fewer than 20-some (and nowhere local carries them). I can keep the mealworms in the fridge for the most part to slow them down, but they have to warm up and eat sometime. I've been told not to put superworms in the fridge, and they're almost all huge now anyway. I'm chopping them up and throwing them to my fish occasionally instead, hah.
- She will not take dead items.
- She doesn't seem to like crickets, although I plan on trying some again if my last 3 pinheads survive past the 1/4 inch stage.
- I've had luck with Phoenix worms in the past, but she doesn't seem into them lately.
- Same with Waxworms, which I've heard aren't that great nutritionally anyway.
- Attempting to let some of my excess waxworms pupate to see if she'll like the moths, but I'm not holding my breath. They've been in the fridge a long time, lol.
- The hornworms kept escaping the terrarium, and she didn't want them anyway.
- She might have eaten a blue bottle fly, or else it managed to escape, but I'm hesitant to do fast-moving things with wings and I had a poor experience with the rest of that shipment.
- Tried flightless fruit flies.... never again. I think I still have some in my kitchen and I got rid of the culture months ago.
- I refuse to do roaches. I've dropped crickets in the house and that's bad enough :thumbdown:
Is there some bug I haven't tried yet?
Here's a picture of the little goober. Her name is Felicia Smalls.
Dubia roaches? I know you said no roaches but they will stay small for a long time and are a good source of nutrition. They can't climb most slippery surfaces and can't fly, nor do they bite or make noise. The small ones are decidedly not as scary as the big ones as well, and if they escape they'll die in the house. They're not good at surviving