5 Reasons Your Leopard Gecko Isn't Eating - Picky Geckos 

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@@ethansmith2942 eastern standard

hello! :D

Why am I watching this at 1am Why was this uploaded at 1 am Why am I watching this when I don't have any plans to get a leopard gecko

GoHerping you forgot about the fact that they won’t eat 1. When there shedding 2. They don’t eat when there burmating and 3.they don’t eat during part of there mating season

Hahah omg I love this comment

Yes like that's amazing

Yeees I need an art channel to make this!!!

I've been trying to come up with painting for my den/office...now I know.

A banquet for kings

does she lay eggs? my crested lays unfertilized eggs a couple times a year, ended up switching her to the breeder pangea formula just for that lol

I'm so lucky mine doesn't lol .w.

my older girl leo has gone off the food now. happens every year like clockwork. her belly's pretty much confirmed her ovulation. my younger leo can at least be relied on to eat, so I'm not getting bugs for nothing. :D

Leopard Gecko hey can u plz answer my question when I hit a new juvenile leopard gecko yesterday and he is super Afraid will even try to bite me most the time what should I do??? Plz I need a little help

I think "a little" is an understatement. They are completely unpredictable.

So entirely agree.

When I was younger I couldn't deal with live feeders, so I didn't have any pets which required live insects. Period. I also can't feed snakes live, so I make DAMN sure any snake I am going to consider buying is on f/t.

I'm terrified of dubias. So I make my fiancé do it 😂 I use to be afraid of mealworms, but I'm ok with them now.

Totally. Any reptile really. Especially snakes. If you don't want to have to feed your snake mice/rats (whether alive or not), don't get a snake.

Lizards have to have live feeders, while snakes just eat frozen and should never feed live.

YUP

At least we have a cactu...oh...

Hell even my cat goes on couple day hunger strikes. Not eating is one of the few things they can control.

@@carschmn I've had cats for 20 years and that's not really normal. I'd see a vet tbh. Cats don't go on hunger strikes for more than a few hours

MintChocolate how many cats have you had?

Michael Ilustre you should get one, they're amazing. I've had mine for 8 years and you'd be surprised about the amount of emotion they show

I have a leopard gecko but I’ve never had him refuse food 😂

Highly considering getting one soon "Hmm interesting"

😂😂😂😂😂

I'm getting a crested

their permanent expression is :]

it makes me very happy :D

And their eyes are like >:(

Sounds like me

my leopard gecko doesn’t like the long shiny metal tongues! he won’t eat from it, and will run from it. Same with one of my bearded dragons but my other bearded dragon does not care at all he’s like gimme dat worm

@@purpleray9406 mine is the complete opposite. I've been feeding my leo off of metal tongs for a week or so, and now he'll just try to eat the tongs instead of the insects. Had to switch to bowl feeding lmao

Really ?? I'm going to try that . I've been thinking she might not like the bowl because it's kind of flimsy and she likes to stand on her water bowl to drink sometimes .

Mine has started refusing food off of the tongs but if I leave it on top of her hide she’ll eat it.🤦‍♀️ I’ve had her for 8 months and she’s just now refusing food.

Oof me to bud I own a ball python but like he makes me want to get more reptiles

....... what u high on?

Lol maybe you shouldn’t admit on the internet that you’re high

Bluestar why not

His "knowledge" isnt the thing youre mesmerized by.

Not that kind of gekco

Wooosh

That's a Day Gecko (don't wooosh me)

@@ivline1377 woosh

Bar Mitzvah Elmo woosh

pretty much lol

Lasnight same My gecko won’t eat any dead insects and doesn’t even know it’s there if it doesn’t move He just walks on it

Tong feed them, and move it around with the tongs, I've had them take them this way.

Yes they are, freeze drying holds onto 90+% of nutrients of anything. It just has no water like a normal insect would, and very slightly less nutrients. Still nutritious though. @Samira Noor

90% nutrient retention of the original insect that was put into the freeze drying process to begin with. The moisture that lizards need is irrelevant as no one mentioned moisture or water and it isn't a nutrient. Freeze dried insects are NOT just an exoskeleton, any and all nutrients are stuck in a solid state inside the insect. If you fed these insects properly, or even gutloaded them with nutrients, then freeze dried them, those nutrients would still be in that cricket, in a dry form. Freezing and thawing actually retains LESS nutrients percentage wise, on average than dry freezing does, because of the number of cells destroyed due to slow freezing process and ice crystals. To put it simply if you gutloaded 2 crickets, froze one in a freezer then thawed it out a few days later, and you took the other and freeze dried it, then tested the nutrients, the frozen and thawed one would have less nutrients than the freeze dried one, on average. This is true even with something as watery as a watermelon piece, far more water content than a cricket. There are plenty of studies showing freeze drying is the most efficient nutrient retention out of any way of storage similar. @Samira Noor​

Blessed little critter!

Post a video of him!

try feeding with tongs if you haven’t! my crested refuses to hunt when i give them so i always tong feed :)

@@kelseycarlton1253 Pretty sure his issue is that his gecko is hunting everything

The Lonely Tetra If he's interested, try feeding him some geckos 😋

They were watching the cricket gutload itself

Omg yes. Geck just rolled her eyes at the wax worms as the cricket pulled them away and ate them. She ate the crickets later and got some super fat filled ones🤷‍♀️

That's hilarious!!!😂😂😂😂 She's just watching them like, "May the odds be ever in your favor," or "Finish him."

Good luck with your new pet :) I have a leo as well, she turned 10 in February.

Me too!

same

Same with me

Lol same I just got one and I named it Mango and he is sleeping rn

yeah i've had this problem with my crested gecko, i only have the 1 female cresty (no males) but she'll lay unfertilized eggs a couple times a year. i'll worry for a few days before i even remember she's probably about to lay eggs. i switched her to the breeding formula of pangea to help her with the needed extra calcium she more than likely needs during. and she seems to like it better than the other formulas but it could also just be her body needs the extra calcium so making her crave it more.

What if she doesn't have a mate? Or does that not matter?😳😳 I'm not ready to be a mom...

@@jasminelopez4080 the eggs won't be fertile, if there is no male there is no baby in the egg.

Do they have to be pregnant to lay Eggs??

Do females always lay eggs? Cause I'm not sure the sex of mine, I think he's male but the owner percieved her as a female

dajoke24 so I have some sub adult leopard geckos in separate cages. Neither of them have ate for months. This might be why! Thanks!

@dajoke24 Hey there! Is this consistent worldwide?

dajoke24 omg this must be why my gecko isn’t eating. All of the sudden he wants to escape.

My gecko stopped eating a few weeks ago. I tried the method where I cut the mealy open and she tasted the blood and then was interested in just 2 that I had to dangle in front of her. She used to eat rampantly. It's been a few weeks since she has consistently ate and I am very worried. Could it be because of breeding season?

So I have a male leopard and he hasn't ate for 2 weeks. My only concern is that some of his tail has thinned out. Help me someone please! I have 3 other geckos that are great eaters. I mix it up on purpose so they dont get bored. But the one that wont eat is concerning me highly.

Does your Leo still do this? Because those seasons are during brumation seasons.

@@Madelin. yeah he owns snakes too sorry this is one year later lmao

@@Madelin. i know lmao I just re found this channel and watched this again and I saw my comment

@@Madelin. diDn’T asK i can see ur one of those types of people who overuse those phrases i don’t give a shit if you don’t care it’s my comment

Lol Funny

some one else motioned it but if its a female she could be about to lay eggs. i have 1 crested gecko, it's a female, but she'll still lay eggs, unfertilized though.

maybe sooonnnn

thanks!

yeah i was expecting him to cover that too

do female leopards lay unfertilized eggs even when they've never been around a male? my crested does, was just wondering if they did too. i don't even own a male crested or any other crested and she still does it.

abyss610 Yes they do! I only own one Leo, and she laid a few weeks ago :)

Could it be that they will stop eating after getting into a fight? I will definitely try a different vitamin powder though. Maybe that will help.

i have a male think and he isnt feeding hes a baby so maybeeeeeeee hes really a she

How was this posted 26 mins ago but it was posted 24 min ago.?

Jah I know

It's nearly 8am here and my sleep schedule is messed up and this video might put me to sleep idk I just find the way he talks relaxing lol

@Blue Pollux me to dont live in denmark though i live in holland

@@nelfi0940 ik ook

High Stepping Night Owl i would expect after a movie like that you would isolate yourself for a month

The exact same thing has been happening to mine and I made the stupid mistake of going to google which convinced me he was gonna die 😂

Honestly

Yes, Emma! Yes!😂😂

I read that as butheds. Lol!

sorta getting on a schedule lol

Dont catch them buy them

Just a friendly heads up, catching wild insects for your reptiles isn't recommended because you dont know what they've been eating or what diseases/parasites/pesticides they may have come into contact with.

@@nightinggale6470 not anymore, they use to be when they were juveniles, but once they were close to being adults I got another enclosure and separated them. This is normal for her to be very picky during the winter, I really could have gone without giving her the grub pie, she still had a good plump tail. The weather is getting warmer where I am so now she's not being as picky about eating

good luck!

Sometimes you don't. I got my first reptile after moving out when I could afford it on my own. Some parents can be convinced but others won't.

Tyler rugge (might have spelled this wrong) made a video all about that. Also some parents just don’t budge.

beg, and beg, and beg

@@anakinskywalker4590 I begged my mom for 3 years. Got Diego, my Leo 3 weeks ago :)

Huevote _ i am so glad i read this.😂😂