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Everything you named for your gecko is an invertebrate, which is common food items for lizards. These things lack a good % of calcium, b/c they don't have an endoskeleton (bones like ours), which is why lizard food needs to be varied and vitamin supplemented.
The only way to get all 23 amino acids to synthesize muscle tissue from one item is to eat another animal with muscle tissue, like rats. Their muscle tissue contains all the necessary amino acids. Vegetarians need to make sure they eat certain combinations of food. Beans, while a great source of protein, do not contain all 23 amino acids and need to be supplemented with other incomplete proteins to result in a net consumption of complete protein.
Most snakes that eat rodents will do just fine on them for their entire life. It's a complete food, offering them what they need nutritionally. Some snakes eat exclusively rodents their whole life in the wild.
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