ciderxwithxrosie
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Hi everyone,
We're having difficulty getting our leopard gecko to eat crix. She's 4 years old and we've just taken her off my younger sister's friend and to be honest, she is very undernourished and about half the size she should be. We've had her 5 days now and in that time we've alternated crix and mealworms and she's only eaten two crix and has lapped up maybe 8 or so mealworms. She's just so slow with crix though, she watches them closely as if she's about to pounce and when she gives up turns her back, they're hidden and that's that, she doesn't hunt them out or there is no evidence of her hunting them out.
We've tried many different things to get her to eat, including moving her into a different box with a few crix in it to eat but she just sat, confused. We did have some big hideous leaf thing in the corner where they'd hide so we've removed that tonight and fingers crossed she gets her arse into gear and eats something but it's really distressing my mum, well all of us but particularly her.
We need our Maggie eating all she can, she is so thin! It's almost likely we've rescued her :s
But please help, what can we do to get her eating something heartier than mealworms?
We're having difficulty getting our leopard gecko to eat crix. She's 4 years old and we've just taken her off my younger sister's friend and to be honest, she is very undernourished and about half the size she should be. We've had her 5 days now and in that time we've alternated crix and mealworms and she's only eaten two crix and has lapped up maybe 8 or so mealworms. She's just so slow with crix though, she watches them closely as if she's about to pounce and when she gives up turns her back, they're hidden and that's that, she doesn't hunt them out or there is no evidence of her hunting them out.
We've tried many different things to get her to eat, including moving her into a different box with a few crix in it to eat but she just sat, confused. We did have some big hideous leaf thing in the corner where they'd hide so we've removed that tonight and fingers crossed she gets her arse into gear and eats something but it's really distressing my mum, well all of us but particularly her.
We need our Maggie eating all she can, she is so thin! It's almost likely we've rescued her :s
But please help, what can we do to get her eating something heartier than mealworms?