Leopard Geckos Try Locusts For The First Time 😮 

great to see and as always variety feeding is so important. Locusts have a larger gut than smaller livefoods, so the transfer of live gut culture and Gutload is increased. In order to pass this on in a highly bioavailable way we now suggest that they are prefed and hydrated and heated for at least an hour to 32 degree. This then allows the transfer of the gut cultures. A species well worth including within variety feeding and especially good around the breeding months for both species. They are also a larger animal, less are required to fill the animal than smaller livefoods. For me, my go to foods are these locusts, brown house crickets, calciworms and soldier flies. Then morios and waxworms in smaller amounts during the month. I limit roach feeding due to the high level of P, but again, they are fine when measured within variety feeding. Good use of ReVitaliseD3, a nice light dusting.

Sorry about laughing at the finger chomps but this was hilarious to watch 😁

Minnie: 3 Fingers: 0

becca: "here's a worm" minnie: *f i n g er*

“The locus butt looks like a worm” Leopard gecko- 2020

Rebecca: Don’t eat my finer eat the locusts Minnie: *e a t f i n g e r*

Leopard gecko: I think she likes it. “ she likes it!!, she likes it!!”

3:33 Gizmo’s face the whole time: 👁👄👁

I feed my geckos locusts more than crickets because to me locusts look less like spiders and I don't like looking at crickets very much My geckos are called Goose and Tokyo and they watch your videos with me and get excited to see food on the screen. Goose and Tokyo say hi 👋

Yesterday I went to my local PetCo to get some things for my leopard gecko I will be getting later this month. While there I very surprised when I saw the food in every tank had been dusted. They all used reptile carpet, non sand in sight, I didn’t even see sand to be bought. All of the tanks were a good size for a temporary tank. They all seemed to be happy and active. So shout out to my local PetCo. I wish all of them could do that.

Minnie sees locus: nothing Minnie sees finger: *munch*

5:35 is definitely the best part of the video haha!

"look at that little face" *BITE* "OH"

You: try a locust Leopard geckos: *FINGERS*

The fact you have the courage to pick the locust up 🙈 I have 2 geckos and I never hand feed them because it terrified me that Shark will bite me 😂 (she’s 5 and looks like Minny/Minnie lol) and Cheese would ignore me (she’s yellow lol)

Damn the way Gizmo dove for the locust so enthusiastically made me laugh. Also my leo has done the same thing as Minnie, just chomps my finger instead of the food or gets my finger along with the food (good thing it doesn’t hurt lol). I’m glad he’s not super picky, but I switch up his food and mix up different bugs in his meals just so he gets a variety.

I loved Leopard gecko ever sense I was a little kid

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen! Your reactions are priceless!!!

Im just hanging out with my gecko and he fell asleep on my bed so I left him for a bit because its late and ik he was going to wake up in a min..he woke up and got spooked by the scream you did when you got bit lol

this is the wholesome content i needed today, thank you!

Hey Rebecca, You inspired me to get a leo 2-3 years ago and shes still going good. I now own 17 pets... 3 quails, 2 cats, veiled chameleon, rat, 7 mourning geckos, 2 dart frogs. Just wanted to say thank you and you helped me so much with my leo! Very inspiring!

my crested gecko passed away yesterday 🥺 i got 2 anoles though they are very cute

Thanks again for sharing. From research it appears that Locusts are not allowed as livefeeders in the US due to agricultural damage, however, they are apparently common in Europe and UK. On Wikipedia it states that "North America is currently the only continent besides Antarctica without a native locust species." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust

"Yaass Mini" Mini is a queen

I'm so irrationally scared of locusts/grasshoppers. They are too big for me to feel okay just smashing them, but they also are so incredibly unpredictable when trying to shoo them out. Their little eyes and mouth really got me messed up! I CANT

haha mini with the finger chomping sorry I'm laughing it was just so funny lol :D

Hi leopard gecko thank you for everything you do and I’m going to get a leopard gecko soon because of you 😀

I only give my geckos one Locust as a treat if they eat there meal (which is either mealworms or crickets) I got my gecko on the 24 of december 2021 so I'm still new

I love this 😂😂😂 I feed 3 locusts every other day to my gecko Loki, I buy three tubs a time and they last me about 2 weeks

My daughter is wanting a leopard gecko and your videos have been very helpful. I really enjoyed this one.

6:38 you go girl! 😂😂

THEY ARE THE CUTEST LIL THINGS

I wish we were able to get these in the US. I think my geckos would like them and i have a larger tarantula that these would be the perfect size for (I have feed like four large cricets for her to get a decent meal)

This video was so adorable! 😊

Lol I jump out of my skin when giz grabbed that grasshopper 😅

minnie cracks me up. she's priceless lol

I used to feed my Leo Tate (he passed away in april 2019) locust all the time as I dont like crickets and I find them more mean than the locust. my Leo loved them and found great fun in chasing them around all night!! Glad to see your Leo's enjoying the new food :))

Love your voice and info

This deffo helped my gecko she loves them now 😋

Gizmo apparently loves the taste of fingers better than locust.

3:30 locust slowly starts his escape plan 😂

i feed locusts pretty frequently because my baby leo doesn't like crickets but absolutely loves locusts and as i've only got the one gecko i get a box of them and that along with mealworms will last me around a week but we have a pet shop really near by so we just go weekly to get them.

So excited

I only have 1 leopard gecko and i primarily feed locusts, i buy around 3 boxes every week and a half and they last that long aswell. He loves them!

Hey im so excited just bought a leopard gecko today im so excited your videos have helped me prepare so so much ive thought of some names ill have to tell you them but keep up the awesome vids (i bought a mack snow morph btw)

omg!!!!! the editing is ooooon point!!!

Got leopard gecko 3 days ago 3 months old eating well and very cute jungle morph with blue around eyes

Locusts are not common feeders here in the states, but I was able to get some at a reptile show right before we locked down for quarantine. Then I couldn't bring myself to feed them to my lizards either, because of their faces. (I have plenty of other feeder bugs at all times, so the geckos didn't go hungry.) I tried to breed the locusts, thinking if I had enough of them I wouldn't feel guilty for feeding them off, but they didn't breed for me and died after a few months. Ah well.

I like feeding locusts mainly because I think my lizards maybe get kinda bored of always eating the same stuff every day. I also once heard they are a bit more nutritious than crickets so I like to use them as a healthy treat instead of always switching to wax/meal/superworms. Another big bonus is that there is no way locusts will breed year round in your house and become a constant pest, except if you live in a warm climate. And lastly I feel like hunting them is a bit more challenging for the lizard than a regular cricket and thus provides more enrichment.

One of my leopard geckos was very turned off by the long back legs of the crickets and would not eat them for about a month. Until I decided I would outsmart him. So I cut or pulled the biggest legs off the back of the crickets and now he takes the crickets every time! 😁 He is much healthier now as well. I had just got him so I was glad to have figured him out.😉

Also if you house crickets with locust apparently the crickets turn into locust (I never tried) and when they legs in the air I think that means they're nearly molting, like how a t flips to molt

I’m very glad you made this video!!! I think locust are so under rated!! I get my locust for my geckos and bearded dragon and they love them!!!! My Leopard Gecko actually prefers them over crickets💓I get mine from my local pet shop they are 3 packs for £5😊

I just got a juvenile leopard gecko and he is still not tame so i’m working on that but your videos help me a lot so thanks a bunch

Your reactions are hilarious 😂😆😆😂😂

Gizmo looks like my Mickey!! Same color, spots, everything 😍

Hey im so excited i just bought a leopard gecko i also have a crested gecko but your videos have helped me prepare so much its a mack snow and i haven't thought of any names do you have any? So keep up the awesome videos

This is my favorite video of the year

I like your videos and your geckos 😁

My parents are finally allowing me to get a Leopard gecko and I’m so hyped! I’m getting it from a website called black water reptiles. It is going to be a hatchling and I’m very excited, I’ve done so much research especially watching your videos, some more then once! Thank you so much!! You’re so kind and a lizard queen!

I used to get mine in bags, locusts are my bearded dragons favourite since they are slower than crickets (they jump further but they don't scuttle about and hop like crickets, so my beardie and cresties find them easier to hunt!). I now buy a few tubs since she's on larger size, I go through 3 tubs of locusts and 3 tubs of crickets weekly among my animals. Hoping my future leopard gecko will like them too!

My leopard gecko loves locusts. They are the only feeders she will eat which can be expensive. So she only eats 2x a week

Sooo cute! If you haven’t already, I think it would be so cool to set up a Facebook group that acts as a forum for all your fans to post photos, ask questions and help each other out? 😄

I definitely try those out and see if my gecko likes them!

Haha Love their little faces ♡♡

Hi I love your video’s

Locust lift their hind legs because that's their passive resting state. I have leopards geckos also lemon(female) and lime(male) kids named them. Lemon just laid total 10 eggs one hatched named it Nemo.

We've had our boy Gizmo for about a month and locusts are his favourite, it's great you can get them in different sizes to suit the age of your gecko .

wow! we'll try with our geckos.. thanks for sharing :)

So excited about the Locust Exo skeleton *Lol*

Me and my leos love locust :) I'm looking forward to being able to get hold of new ones, as they are hard to come by here.

I feed my leopard gecko only locusts because she likes them, She is 2 and a half and the only reason I don't use crickets is because they are loud and look weird, I give her 7 or 8 locusts at a time and mealworms at night but I feed her 2 or 3 times a week :)

I offer my Leopard Gecko Morty locusts just to offer him more variety in his diet. I normally feed him 5 to 6 at a time (he is an adult male) I will tong feed him most of them and let him hunt to last few down. I do also have bearded dragons so any that get to big for him don’t go to waste. They work really well for me as Morty won’t eat marrio worms of meal worms so it is nice to offer him some variety. I also only have to buy food for one gecko so 1 tub lasts me a while.

These are what I feed my gecko mainly (she eats a lot more insect species because variation) since I find crickets so problematic. She loves them. They are more colourful so she can see them a bit easier. I offer 4 myself.

Geeckw sho cute My gecko does this too 😂😂😂 when it tries to bite your finger

Minnie=Shark Gizmo=Shark Shark/Leo hybrids confirmed. They do a big chompy.

Hello, I have been watching your channel for a while and have my own gecko now and I love him, I was just wondering if you would recommend any certain types of heat bulbs because I’ve gotten some which have been cold ever since I got my 20 gallon and have broken pretty fast, you have amazing content, keep going!

this is great to see somebody having a large enough enclosure for their gecko, you’re very enthusiastic about reptiles. I’m new to explore your channel and I see you have great experience. Aswell, I did see that Ziggy had passed, I very dearly am sorry. If you’re struggling, I read up that think your gecko climbing logs etc to get to a rainbow bridge. Where you’ll be waiting for them when you die. Anyways back to the reptile stuff; I use locusts for my 2 almost 1 year-old geckos. They enjoy them so much. I will absolutely agree with you, they are a nightmare with getting them out. I use tweezers, especially made for feeding reptiles and then either jump and their leg falls off. it also depends on what size your locusts are, I’m currently feeding mine medium. 3-8 weeks: 3-4 9-12 weeks: 5 maximum # medium 1y.o: (how much they can eat in an hour) #medium / large locusts 3y.o + : 4 #large / extra large locusts It also depends on the geckos personality if they are a massive foodie I would recommend these x

Me watching one of them leap off in the distance

The amount of time you were bitten 🤣 bless you

We love a Acardia surpporter

My adult beardie eats 8-10 large locusts every other day. She does better on locusts than crickets. They’re the same price in my local pet shop and you get about the same amount in a box of locusts as you do in a box of crickets. She goes through about 4 a week

I buy either small/medium if they are eating or nymphs. I keep a heated tank to grow them on and as I have 8 geckos that eat live food its handy having different sizes of locust for each gecko

the finger chomps had me dead XD

2:45 When gecko want to eat finger

Hi Rebecca 👋 i absolutely love your videos😃i was gonna ask why you don’t use feeding tings if your geckos follow your finger😎

Who’s here watching the vid after Ziggy died. Rest In Peace Ziggy sorry for your loss

I tried locusts to my leopard gecko when I first got her and she didn't approve :D

they're so cute!

When she put that locust in front of the camera I was like oh heck no not today

I'd usually go with 2/3 crickets : 1 large locust

I don't like crickets too much, so my leopard gecko eats locust (4 per feeding usually). She eats 3 different type of bugs, so one tube of locust (size 3) is more or less perfect in quantity up untill they are too big to feed. They are still cool to observe after that though, grow really big, the wings developing fully etc.

I am getting a lepord gecko and I don't how to take care of it can you do a video on how to take care of them. thx

Where do you but your crickets? And how do you keep them alive for so long

We feed Max our Leopard Gecko on Locusts and tend to buy a tub every few weeks as he is pretty good and is happy to eat Dubia's, meal, morio and wax worms so a really good variety.. He weighs 81g and tends to eat about 4 or 5 Locusts in a sitting and we buy the large locusts.

I felt your finger pain guuuurl xD it made me flinch

Where do you get your tanks

My girl Freya is 6 months old, and she will generally take 4 locusts at a time - then during the night will eat about 5 mealworms out of her dish. I've never tried her on crickets, but she eats a rotating staple of mealworms, locusts, silkworms and roaches :)

Haha Cuties. My Leo, she tends to get my finger too lol

I use grasshoppers 🦗 and my leooardgecko winny likes them more than crickets

3:25 locus: RUN 🦗💨💨💨💨💨💨💨 Run meme activate*