➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Tesumph]

Leopards are carnivores, but cresties eat goop right?

Oh, yea. Thought she meant leos.

The crestie goop diet makes me kinda uncomfortable.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Also I found some reptile breeder websites. BAD idea lol

I don’t like the idea of shipping live animals though so if I got one, I’d probably just get one from the pet store, but man they have some cool color variations and species!!

I also NEED this one. Holy moly.

https://tikisgeckos.com/collections/other-geckos/products/peacock-day-gecko

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh, yea. Thought she meant leos.

The crestie goop diet makes me kinda uncomfortable.

Yeah I did I just forgot to specify haha

And wait why? Some apparently find it better than bugs lol but it does seem kinda gross haha idk.

 

[CSAchook]

Also I found some reptile breeder websites. BAD idea lol

I don’t like the idea of shipping live animals though so if I got one, I’d probably just get one from the pet store, but man they have some cool color variations and species!!

I also NEED this one. Holy moly.

https://tikisgeckos.com/collections/other-geckos/products/peacock-day-gecko

If you are going to be looking around on retail sites make sure you read up on what the terms mean: field collected/ wild caught, CB, CBB. Those matter!

 

[ShrekDawg]

If you are going to be looking around on retail sites make sure you read up on what the terms mean: field collected/ wild caught, CB, CBB. Those matter!

Thanks! That’s helpful. I think one of the videos explained a little bit about it.

And I just found this article.

https://thereptileworld.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/knowledge-for-buying-cb-wc-cbb/

 

[Tesumph]

Yeah I did I just forgot to specify haha

And wait why? Some apparently find it better than bugs lol but it does seem kinda gross haha idk.

I dunno. I just find it weird. Every other reptile gets fresh vegetables and live insects/rodents, but cresties get powdered goop.

I haven’t researched it a whole lot but my understanding is that their natural diet has very soft fruit in it, which the goop is supposed to mimic.
Or something like that.
I’m admittedly ignorant about it.

 

[CSAchook]

I dunno. I just find it weird. Every other reptile gets fresh vegetables and live insects/rodents, but cresties get powdered goop.

I haven’t researched it a whole lot but my understanding is that their natural diet has very soft fruit in it, which the goop is supposed to mimic.
Or something like that.
I’m admittedly ignorant about it.

Apparently in the wild they eat fruit, nectar, sap, and bugs.

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Rhacodactylus_ciliatus/

I wonder what goop is made of???

 

[ShrekDawg]

I dunno. I just find it weird. Every other reptile gets fresh vegetables and live insects/rodents, but cresties get powdered goop.

I haven’t researched it a whole lot but my understanding is that their natural diet has very soft fruit in it, which the goop is supposed to mimic.
Or something like that.
I’m admittedly ignorant about it.

That makes sense! It is definitely a little weird and I am sure they would like some bugs or real fruit occasionally but maybe they eat a special kind of fruit in the wild that isn’t commonly available? Idk. But leopards and beardies seem super cute and easy.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Apparently in the wild they eat fruit, nectar, sap, and bugs.

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Rhacodactylus_ciliatus/

I wonder what goop is made of???

Huh, fascinating. Thanks.

Here is a link to the Repashy site. Linking the site rather than a specific one because apparently they have several different crested gecko formulations.

https://www.store.repashy.com/

 

[Tesumph]

Apparently in the wild they eat fruit, nectar, sap, and bugs.

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Rhacodactylus_ciliatus/

I wonder what goop is made of???

That’s what I always wonder.
They sell “complete” bearded dragon diets too, but I would never feed that crap to IV in a million years.

If I did have a crestie, I would probably feed it the highest quality goop I could find along with gut loaded crickets.
I’d feel weird depending only on a goop to be a complete diet.