I feed the all natural applesauce with nothing added. What Do Crested Geckos Eat? In captivity, leopard geckos thrive on a varied diet of commercially available insects: crickets, mealworms, superworms and roaches are excellent dietary staples. I, personally, would not keep Phelsuma on a primarily fruit diet. An omnivore can actually be a frugivore. Crested geckos eat fruit and insects in the wild. Starfruit is a very high-oxalate fruit, and as fruits are generally high in oxalates it’s best avoided or fed rarely. Feed them Repashy CGD every day, and only offer fruits as a treat. African fat-tailed geckos, house geckos, and leopard geckos are all purely insectivorous. I don't think they will do well for you, and I can clearly see the difference when I can't get crickets even for a short time. Any recommendations would be great, thank you. I will have to look them up. You can use an online calculator with the amounts as a ratiio (.11 : .85) to get the percentage as well: http://www.miniwebtool.com/ratio-to-percentage-calculator/ There is only 13% of the Calcium amount as there is of the Phosphorus amount – so a lot less calcium! She has been healthy and has had a nice bright orange color for as long as I have had her, but for the past while (well over a month ago) she has become pale. Tropical fruits such as papaya, figs and pineapples. Spiders can give your pets a nasty bite, and many caterpillars have chemical defense mechanisms which can harm your geckos. Kumquat 2.3:1 If she’s active, eating and pooping there is likely nothing wrong with her. Divide the amount of calcium (Ca) by the phosphorus (P) to get the Calcium to Phosphorus (Ca:P) ratio as a percentage – 12.9% Ca:P or rounded up to 13%. Use a nutrition reference tool or database to find out the total amounts of each mineral. Soursop (seeded)(1) 1 : 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/number/ratiosrev2.shtml If it can't breathe right reptiles will sometimes throw up. That's really crazy that a gecko would throw up after eating. You can try mashed bananas, pureed baby food, or sliced fruit; goldens especially like tropical fruits such as mangos. Crested geckos feed on fruits, nectars, and insects in the wild. Plantain 1 : 10 Or if you feed a commercial diet, you do not need live food – but it’s still recommended once in a while. And thank you for the info. Give them a decently hot hot spot, have a small water bowl, and some terrain for them to climb on/hide in. These geckos can eat pureed fruit mixes or prepared fruit mixes formulated for geckos. If this is your first visit, be sure to I feed apples that I cut into tiny pieces also and hand feed them.     Starter Good luck! Elderberries 1:1.1 Nutritional content will vary due to region, season, and soil type of where the fruit is grown. There are some fruits you should not feed, or feed very sparingly. The one below is easy, you put in the current ratio on the left side and a “1” in either the left or the right fill-in area. Unlike bearded dragons and green iguanas, leopard geckos do not eat fruit and vegetables. Appropriate fruits for crested geckos and other fruit eating reptiles are fruits that are high in calcium and low in phosphorus. Vegetables have many more nutrients and much less sugar than fruits, which is the same role that pollen plays in a wild day gecko's diet. So far I have fed apples to: Blue tongue skink, crested geckos, white lined geckos, tokay geckos, golden geckos,lined day geckos,giant day geckos,crocodile geckos, and cuban knight anoles. However, most pet geckos are primarily insectivorous, meaning they eat insects and other creepy crawlies. See below for the numbers, in descending order from high to low Ca:P ratio. They're very forgiving of variance. No citrus. I think this is the best way to understand the data, at least for me, and makes putting them in chart form a lot easier visually. http://luckyyou-gliders.webs.com/nutrition. Apparently it is a type which eats some sort of mashed up fruit from a pet shop. (Ca:P lists calcium on the left, phosphorus to the right) JavaScript is disabled.