Food and Water

Crickets will make up the majority of your geckos diet. Any pet shop will have a variety of sizes. Do not feed your gecko anything longer than his head! The smaller the better. Crickets are very cheap cheap. 20 of them will feed your gecko for about 2 weeks. I do not recommend buying any more than 20 at a time because they will grow and begin to chirp. And that’s just annoying... Any container will work for crickets as long as they can breathe, but not escape. Crickets will eat just about anything. Just drop a piece of fruit or vegetable in thier container. Oranges work well. The more calcium, the better. Often times crickets will come from the pet shops hungry. You will need to "load" them. Just pick up some cricket quencher. This fills your crickets with good stuff for your lizard. Tropical fish food flakes work really well too. Let your crickets eat for a few hours before you give them to your gecko. Another good way to get nutrients to your gecko is to "dust" your crickets. This dust provides a calcium supplement and is very inexpensive. Simply sprinkle it on your crickets right before giving them to your gecko. Place only three or four crickets in your tank once a day. Once a gecko is an adult, they will eat every other day or so. Do not put too many crickets in your tank!!! This will stress the lizard out, and the CRICKETS will begin eating the GECKO!!! Geckos prefer to eat in the dark...about a half hour after your light goes off is good. I do not recommend feeding meal worms or pinky mice to a juvenile gecko. If you are going to do this I would wait until he is full grown. These types of meals should be rare. It is important to take good care of your gecko in the first year of his life. If he becomes comfortable enough with you he will likely begin eating right out of your hand!!

Watering is simple. Just a fresh dish of water every other day or so will do. Misting him once a day with a water bottle is another great way to provide water and humidity.