Brand new baby crested gecko =)

[RzezniksRunAway]

I had a very, very poor 2013 season with my Cresteds. Formula changes to Repashy caused a ton of drama with my colony, leading to the loss of a few babies, my biggest and oldest female and poorly calcified eggs all around. I pulled the males early and dropped temps on the females to get them to stop laying. They're all fine now on different food, and thriving, and have just started laying for this season.

Sometime in the fall of 2013 two females laid clutches. One egg from each clutch died. I have no idea who laid them because I wasn't really keeping up on checking. During the season they don't have substrate and just have boxes to lay in, but they were all in an enclosure together with deep substrate. I didn't even mark dates because I just assumed these eggs wouldn't make it as well. In 2012 I produced somewhere around 70 cresteds. 2013 left me with around 17.

THEN this little dude/dudette hatched a few days ago. I have a good guess as to who the mother is, and a definite knowledge of who the father is based on the appearance of the little thing. This doesn't make up for a crappy season, but I'm excited. =)

 

[cantthinkofone]

such an adorable little one

 

[Anonymity82]

Repashy caused problems? Supposed to be one of the best foods. I changed my leopard gecko's dust to Repashy's leopard gecko calcium plus and he hasn't a good shed since. But I also added a low wattage heat pad and only used paper towels. I put tiles over the heat pad now and am hoping that they will keep him for drying out as the papertowels are quite absorbent.

Beautiful baby btw! My brother is setting up a tank for one soon. He's got the pebbles for drainage, live plants and now working on some more live plants and decor. He was going to use repashy CGD but if you say they're problems I may have to investigate further into something that may be better. I've read of making your own food.

 

[RzezniksRunAway]

The formula was changed, and some of my geckos refused it. I had a few do perfectly fine on it, but I wasn't getting growth out of my little ones and dishes would be left untouched by many. I tried multiple other foods that are out there on the market including Big Fat Gecko, mixing in Pangea fruit mix, Zoo Meds new crested diet, Black Panther Zoological and finally settled on the new Pangea complete diet. I have nothing against Allen Repashy, but something about the new formula just didn't click for my geckos. I'm not the only one either. I've heard rumor that it's being switched back to the previous version because of all of this. Big fat gecko is an awesome food, but nothing got the response that the Pangea complete did. Black Panther is an insect based diet and it stinks, but my geckos love it.

I use his calcium, bug burger, gel water crystals, and super-pig. I've also used his superhatch and fish foods when I was dealing with fish. If the gecko is on that and thriving, go with it. Mine just did not, at all. Poorly calcified eggs, stupid-slow growth in hatchlings. That's why I started a dubia colony. My adults didn't like crickets, so I rarely had them on hand. Now everyone eats dubias once a week and Pangea 3x.

 

[Perentie]

The formula was changed, and some of my geckos refused it. I had a few do perfectly fine on it, but I wasn't getting growth out of my little ones and dishes would be left untouched by many. I tried multiple other foods that are out there on the market including Big Fat Gecko, mixing in Pangea fruit mix, Zoo Meds new crested diet, Black Panther Zoological and finally settled on the new Pangea complete diet. I have nothing against Allen Repashy, but something about the new formula just didn't click for my geckos. I'm not the only one either. I've heard rumor that it's being switched back to the previous version because of all of this. Big fat gecko is an awesome food, but nothing got the response that the Pangea complete did. Black Panther is an insect based diet and it stinks, but my geckos love it.

I use his calcium, bug burger, gel water crystals, and super-pig. I've also used his superhatch and fish foods when I was dealing with fish. If the gecko is on that and thriving, go with it. Mine just did not, at all. Poorly calcified eggs, stupid-slow growth in hatchlings. That's why I started a dubia colony. My adults didn't like crickets, so I rarely had them on hand. Now everyone eats dubias once a week and Pangea 3x.

I keep my crestie on repashy (so far, only had him a month) he hasn't really taken to eating much, but when offered the day gecko diet (my brother's day geckos eat it and I didn't have any normal stuff at the time) he loved it. I am willing to bet this is because of a higher sugar content, and that makes me wary when i hear how much peoples geckos love pangea. I worry it just has more sugar.

 

[Spepper]

That is possibly the cutest little crested gecko I have ever seen.

 

[RzezniksRunAway]

Perentie, Matt has the analysis on pangea.com and the ingredients. I'm impressed, my geckos clean their dishes. They do like the day gecko a lot though. I think its the figs. I actually tasted the watermelon because i'm weird, and its good. Not super sweet.