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PLEASE do NOT feed baby food!!! If you search online you will find tons of evidence of the dangers of MBD (Metabolic Bone Disease) resulting from a poor unbalanced diet. One of the most common causes is from feeding baby food, due to all the misinformation that is still out there.

Here are some online sources related to the baby food diet cresties should not have. Baby food is a formulated substance for homo sapiens sapiens

Back in 94 when these guys were re discovered there was no formulated powder or "specific" food for cresties, now 18years later, multiple breeders, wholesalers, even most chain stores advise to use the formulated "Crested gecko diet". Crested gecko diet comes in a couple of well known manufacturer's: Repashy, Clarks and T-Rexx.

People would have to add multiple vitamins such as: Magnesium Gluconate, Canthaxanthin, Calcium Propionate and Potassium Sorbate Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D Supplement, Choline Chloride, Ascorbic Acid Phosphate, Vitamin E Supplement etc... in their babyfood for it to be sufficient.

Unless one is supplementing their baby food with these ingredients it is not going to stimulate growth and development positively.

MBD is not caused from baby food. MBD is a lack of calcium. Baby food does not provide this calcium and if it is the main diet of an animal, they will start to draw calcium from the bone. Baby food is packed with sugars and preservatives. These great "Taste's" become highly addicting. Once a crested has fancied the taste and will not choose to eat anything else, it's extremely hard to lean them off the baby food. This is where MBD plays a role. The gecko will not eat anything but baby food and 99% of people buying baby food don't supplement before placing it in the tank.

Crested geckos can ingest an occational cricket. You are also able to purchase a powder to mix with water, they enjoy this aswell. This powdered mix is known as MRP (meal replacement powder).

Remember, if you keep your gecko in good heath, it may live to be 15 years old, so feed it as you would yourself, it is God's animal, so take care of yourself and your gecko.

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Insects, crickets for example.

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