Wild leopard geckos’ diet is more varied, and they’ll consume spiders, centipedes, scorpions, and sometimes smaller lizards. These lizards do not eat vegetable or fruit matter and their bodies cannot digest it. While geckos out in the wild eat all manner of insects, this doesn’t mean ...
including those with high fat content (waxworms and butterworms). Fatty insects are a necessary part of their diet because they contain essential fatty acids that help keep the gecko warm and aid in digestion. Never feed wild-caught insects; they may be coated ...
The leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius), in particular, has proven to be an excellent model because the investigator has precise control of the critical environmental variable (in this case, incubation temperature) that determines the sexual phenotype of the gonad, and hence its products. Since...
diet was consistent and consisted of insects with calcium powder given three times a week. A UVB light bulb with 5.0 spectrum was provided and changed every 6 months. A plastic box with peat moss was present in the terrarium and misted daily. The owner indicated that the gecko was acquired...