quaint charm
I'll hopefully have a job after tomorrow.
I was wondering when's the best time to buy food and calcium for them?
I'd be picking up 1 type of calcium at the pet store along with the food.
So should I buy it the day before I'm supposed to get the gecko?
I know sometimes they don't eat for a few days after
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I'd start offering food the day of in case they do decide they want to eat on the first day. The best course in my opinion would be to buy food the day before and start gutloading it
A dish of calcium without D3 should just be in the tank so that'd be the first thing
Don't forget to get a multivitamin for them too on top of both calcium with and without D3
!gutloading
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!supplements
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Supplements are a necessary part of a leopard gecko's (or most any captive herp's) diet. In the wild, they would be eating a wide variety of prey, and that prey would be eating a wide variety of foods itself. In captivity, there's no way to replicate this perfectly, which is why offering supplements and as varied of a diet as possible is crucial in preventing deficiencies and illness.
The exact schedule you use for supplements will depend on your individual animal, its age, and your feeding schedule. However, a good place to start is by picking up some calcium, calcium + D3, and multivitamins. If you use UVB, you will likely not need a D3 supplement since UVB allows reptiles to produce their own D3. This takes the guessing game out of how much D3 to provide (they can overdose on it) since they will regulate their exposure and D3 levels themselves. D3 is needed to use calcium in the body, so animals will become calcium deficient without D3. Additionally, make sure any calcium supplements you use are phosphorus free since they generally get enough phosphorus in their diet, and too much will cause a calcium deficiency.
Fluker's Calcium + D3 https://bit.ly/39lMQ9d
ZooMed's ReptiCalcium with D3 https://bit.ly/3f7lHdS
Fluker's Calcium (no D3) https://bit.ly/3ntLUpD
ZooMed's ReptiCalcium (no D3) https://bit.ly/2wrkeN0
RepCal Calcium (no D3) https://bit.ly/35DMY4u
Repashy Calcium Plus Multivitamin https://bit.ly/39kqVPu
RepCal Herpivite Multivitamin https://amzn.to/3lBo4rK
ZooMed Reptivite Multivitamin https://amzn.to/38NMQRL
Fluker's Repta Vitamin Multivitamin https://amzn.to/3lC8TON
If you'd like to learn more about how to assess supplement brands, here's a good article from Reptifiles: https://reptifiles.com/reptile-vitamins-reptile-calcium/
If you'd like to learn more about how reptiles use D3, here's an article from Arcadia: https://www.arcadiareptile.com/d3-cycle/
Example supplementation schedules:
http://bit.ly/3cpFcyO
quaint charm
I have these but the red one I believe is offered at my local pet store..
Is it okay to keep the bugs in the container they come in if I'm not interested in breeding them right away? Or should I get something else to store them in
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It's okay to keep them in the container they came in. You don't need to breed them yourself. It just saves money in the long run if you can readily maintain the necessary conditions
Just give them some veggies from that infographic
I like carrots and sweet potatoes myself
quaint charm
Yea carrots are ALWAYS in my house like no matter what. We never run out
They come in a little deli container, I know they sell small faunarrims or wtv. I have a carrier faunarrim for the gecko
Ah no, the green calcium is at the pet store but idk if it's changed since I went
I'm thinking of buying the calcium about a week before, little longer since shipping is long unless I can go to a different store :)
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Well just make sure you have three
You can mix and match zoomed and fluker's
quaint charm
Three calcium? Ik