How To Feed A Gecko

How to Feed a Gecko


Before we proceed to feeding a Gecko, let us first try to know more about Geckos.
Lizards are a very large and widespread group of reptiles, with the estimate of 3800 species, ranging across all continents as well as most oceanic island chains. The group traditionally recognized as the sister group to the squamates, the larger group, which includes both the lizards and the snakes. Lizards typically have limbs and external ears, while snakes lack both these characteristics. Because they are defined negatively as excluding snakes, lizards have no unique distinguishing characteristic as a group. Lizards and snakes share a movable bone. Many lizards can detach their tails to escape from their enemies and predators, but this kind of unique traits does not shared to all lizards. Vision, including color vision, is particularly well developed in most lizards, and most communicate with body language or bright colors on their bodies. The adult length of species within the suborder ranges from a few centimeters for some chameleons and geckos to nearly three meters (9 feet, 6 inches) in the case of the largest living varanid lizard.
Gekkota ( This kind of lizards are active hunters)
The Gekkota includes three families comprising the distinctive cosmopolitan geckos and the legless flap-footed lizards of Australia and New Zealand. Like snakes, the flap-footed lizards and most geckos lack eyelids. Unlike snakes, they use their tongues to clean their often highly developed eyes. While gecko feet have unique surfaces that allow them to cling to glass and run on ceilings, the flap foot has lost its limbs. The three families of this suborder are:
• Family Eublepharidae – 'Eyelid' Geckos
• Family Gekkonidae – Geckos
• Family Pygopodidae – Flap-footed Lizards


Your Gecko will live longer for many years if you feed them properly. Younger Geckos need more feedings to make their bodies grow. Geckos eats mosquitos, crickets, flies and many more especially those insects, but remember this most Geckos eat only insects that moves.

Steps in Feeding a Gecko
1. Prepare to load crickets in a holed small bottle, add vegetables, grain meals, wheat gems, dried fish flakes or commercial insect guts, do this at least a day before feeding time.
2. You can add a sliced orange for water content to make Gecko strong and healthy.
3. Separate number of crickets before the feeding. Put the food on your hand, fingertip, or arm. Make sure that the Gecko will be able to reach it, however.
4. Feed Gecko with dusted cricket, feed only commercial dust supplement with calcium every other day.
5. Feed your Gecko every night around three to four crickets.
6. Allow 5 to 20 minute feeding the Gecko, twice a day for geckos under seven months, 3 to 4 times a week for older Gecko.
7. Live worms are also good for Geckos, feed them once a week according to the size of your Gecko.
8. Remove all uneaten crickets and live worms, then remove the container and clean, this process for the next feeding.