Help!!! leopard geckos arent eating

[TJTleopard1177]

I tried to Feed my leopard geckos to night and both would not eat i just put them on sand to days ago both are sub adults and both eat mealworms but hardly anymore and they wont eat crix what can I buy or do to help them I need to get their tails fat again the are both skinny b/c of gastroentitis and I got them better and now the tails neeedddd to be fattened up!


Heeelpppppp!


Thomas
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	Crickets Crix

[morti]

Welcome to RTB. Try jumbo meal worms, super worms, or wax worms. Maybe even frozen thawed pinky mice. All of these items are big enough for a sub adult-adult leo.
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[StaticKaos]

Are the meal worms still alive infront of the geckos? The sand in my tank is too warm for meal worms, they die instantly..soo.. I have to put them on the container they come in so that they stay alive longer.. get some gut load cricket food from a petstore..fatten up tha crickets, then feed away.
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[Fyre]

give them time to adjust to the new enviorment . try feeding them again the next day. also morti has given you some good alternitives for food. but with the pinkies make sure they are day old new borns and are alive. with pinkies dont over feed. try like 1 per leo.when they get hungry enough they should eat. and are you sure you cleared up their health problems?
and another piece of advice get rid of the sand. here's a good reason why http://www.pythons.com/calcium.html


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[savannah_babe]

what ever you do.. DONT LET YOUR LEO GET AHOLD OF THE GUT LOAD!! i had a bad experience with it.. they cant digest it. my husband and i came back from a herp show and found that someone had put some gut load in our leos tank (trying to help) and my leo ofcourse ate some..and it got stuck in his intestines and died [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_frown.gif[/img] but give him some time, and if he doesnt adjust i would put him back on paper towels or newspaper. better to be safe than sorry. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] good luck and i hope he starts eating for ya.
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[TJTleopard1177]

thank you all it did work and my geckos are eating again
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[Flood]

Just one quick question, did you get the meal worms and crickets from the same place as you normally do? I'm asking because I've seen some beardies and geckos not eat if the food is at all different, even if the crickets are fed differently. I haven't seen it a lot, but I have. I would lean more towards the fact that you changed their environment more than the food itself, but that was already mentioned so... [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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[geckokid]

keep a close eye on them and make sure that you feed speratly just to make shure that they are all eating enough. also make sure that this male your getting is quantined and away from the others until they are all better!! thats very important. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] feed youre new male a variety of foods like crickets, mealworms, waxworms, ect. Bye the way, what is the temperature? good luck
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