New Gecko

Hi
After much reserch and a few trips to a reptile seller my son deceided to get a leopard gecko !!
here he is his name is Wilkinson !! (rugby player )
sorry for photos my camera is old !!!





He is sooo tiny !!! but so sweet
sharon xx

[wildlifewarrior]

lovely leo, has it ate as of yet, as at a guess i wud say he is about 2 weeks old form the pic due to the blue eyelids. i don't sell mine until at leasr 2months old. he looks great tho. what powder are u dusting his food with.

[linda]

he is a little cutie

Hi yes he is eating very well on both mealworms and hoppers ! his food is dusted with nutrobal and he has a pot of limestone flour and his food is gutloaded
sharon x

[wildlifewarrior]

can i make a reconmendation....meal worms have very little nutritional value and are hardy for young lizards to digest and locusts have been known to cuase impactions on young lizards. these foods are great for a vaired diet when they are a year or so old but not at his age, he will either get a impaction or a prolaspe. i wud give him black or brown crickets (instar 2 size) and 1-2 wax worms a week as a treat. gutloading the food is fine , orange carrot or patato is the best food to use.

if u are gut loading the food and dusting them then a pot of powder in the tank is not needed and at a young age cud overdoes them on calcium. pot's with powder it are only really needed for a grivd(pregant) female. i wud get him off nutrobal as it does little in the way of providing the healthy bones witht the calcuim they need...from personal experince i have found it to be very useless altho it seems to do the job with torts. the ebst thing that i and many other reptile breeders wud reconment is BoneAid.

[leggy]

lovelly looking gecko.

a better photo
sharon

[wildlifewarrior]

i thought he wa son hoppers ? thats a cricket in the picture

[leggy]

Lots of us call crickets hoppers My babys still had this blue ting at six weeks

[wildlifewarrior]

normally at 6 weeks they are very faint if there at all as by this time the back of the eyes have fully formed....the blue colouring tends to be blood flow and and complety gone by 5-8 weeks .

to be honest i have never heard crickets been refered to as hoppers before. hoppers refer to the nymph stage of the locust....then when there extra large there refered to as grasshoppers or just adults....crickets tend to go by the instar size........sorry if i misunderstood just i never heard them being called that. kinda like calling a tortoise a turtle.