7 Lies You Have Been Told About Crested Geckos Part 2
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I can’t believe someone actually believed a crested geckos pattern is determined by its food 😂😂 that poor person
Yes. It is a shame to believe such foolery.
Its ok to not know, its a shame to not wanna LEARN!
I think I can understand where they are coming from though, they might not have been referring to pattern, if you think about it, and I am not sure if this is the case with cresties but with a lot of animals such as fire belly toads, the redness in them they get from carotenes so for example if you have a morph of crestie that is very orange or red and you feed it a diet with more carotene then it should flare the colour more. That is where I think they got confused.
"Your gecko will not turn into a banana" That just cracked me up thanks for making my day!
Thanks for watching!
R.IP Rengoku 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I fed my gecko zebra and it got black and white stripes... xD I don't have a gecko, but I do enjoy these. Thanks for the laughs! People are crazy!!!
My Gecko didn't get the info about being crepuscular. He's only active at night.
Unless you record them you actually never know because they could go back to sleep at night
True, but he’s active from dark until 1-2am when I go to sleep. That’s a large portion of the night.
me too
Super old comment but id like to add. They were recently found to not be crepuscular either, but actually Cathemeral. Meaning active evenly throuought the day and night, sporadically more or less.
I understand the food/ color myth is a complete joke, but maybe they meant how the quality of your geckos diet can affect how bright and colorful they may appear (not a change in the actual pigment) just thought I’d put this out there cause I did hear this once.
There are certain diet supplements that can make geckos colors more vibrant.
I like this comment; the person did not came from a bad place. I just do the same as with my fish; give quality food for quality animals
@@AltitudeExotics Would you be able to give a few examples if thats ok?
@@AltitudeExotics What supplements do that? is that bad for them?
Someone on Facebook actually was telling people that a mealworm killed her gecko, I didn't believe it but I'm so glad it was confirmed here, thank you.
I've give my crested geckos mealworms they are fine. One only ate them once the other comes jumping for them.
I just read about the Babyfood in a care guide I bought a couple of days ago. I was shocked this stuff is still in guide🤦
Tho some mashed fruit with calcium and vitamins can be nice for them and a good variation in the diet
Just curious-What year was that guide made?
I really enjoy learning about this because I hope to get a crested gecko one day
Fantastic choice, i have 13 of them, great animals 😊
@@smithd2001 They're beautiful, I have two mourning geckos currently and I adore them but I look forward to when I have space and time for another more handlable gecko
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Me too
My daughter and I were at petsmart buying mealworms and crickets for her Leo and my crestie. A worker proceeds to tell us that the mealworms will eat their way out of the lizards stomachs if our lizards are juveniles. It scared my daughter so much that she started squishing the mealworms heads before feeding (her Leo will eat any insect dead or alive), it to her Leo. I don't feed my crestie mealworms because seeing cresties only need to eat insects twice a week, I feed mine crickets because they are more nutritious than mealworms. My daughter mostly feeds her Leo crickets as well and occasionally feeds him mealworms because the exoskeleton can be hard for them to digest. Her Leo got impacted for a few days because he had a hard time digesting the exoskeleton. When he finally did pass it the mealworm was pretty much whole so he might just not of chewed his food enough. I think that you would more need to worry about mealsworms causing impaction than eating through your lizards stomach.
Thank you for the information and the stories! I can't believe what some people think is true about crested geckos! Also, have you ever done a video about crested gecko structure? I have been trying to learn how to look at a gecko and know if it has "good" or "bad" structure but I have been having trouble grasping it.
I have not, though that is a great idea. Thanks!
Oh! I remember reading up on this earlier. If I remember correctly, a large head and short snout is good. Also, the longer and sturdier the crest, the better. That’s about all I remember, since it was a while ago. I don’t remember the website, since it was a while ago.
*Disclaimer: Please do not throw your gecko in a jug of Repashy and shake it around. 🤣
Omg lol
Wow, that was a close one. Thanks for the heads up lol.
There’s no point now that we know we can’t get a banana
Thanks for this! I just got my first crestie almost a month ago and I sometimes find him chilling on the bottom and i got really nervous that something was wrong but I realized it's normal! He likes one of the plants in the corner that almost creates a hide on the bottom
Lol I was told that as a new gecko owner. That the mealworms could eat it's way of the gecko. So if you're going to feed mealworms you'd have to squish the insect's head . To make it safe.
Just like in the wild.
I heard to squish a superworm's head because they supposedly have a good bite but I don't feed superworms. I do rip the legs off of crickets for my leopard gecko because he is slow af though and his aim is the worst, so, a typical leo. 🤷♀️ 😂
The sarcasm...I love it!
Cheers have a good Saturday everyone!!💚
People used to feed baby food to their geckos. This was a million years ago, when I had my first one. Back then it was baby food with a supplement, and gut loaded crickets dusted with calcium. I'm not sure if we called it gut loading back then. I know pangea wasn't around back then. Crested geckos live longer now from what I hear.
These videos are awesome!! Very educational and very informative!! These lies always seem to crack me up sometimes lol. I really struggling believeing people believe this stuff but then again its not hard to believe because some people these days are just not educated enough.
P.S. I absolutely agree as well. My crested gecko spends most of his time on the ground but he will go up in the branches when ever he wants to as well but 90 percent of the time my crestie is on the ground chillin out under leaces or in his cork bark hide.
I can imagine a mealworm CRAWLING out of a small animals throat, but eating its way out?! 😂 😂 😂
I mix banana baby food in with my cresties diet, it gives it a thicker texture and they love the taste. They are on zoo med mixed with repashy :) never knew cresties could regrow that little nub tail! He’s cute!!
Dude you should totally do that crested gecko mealworm birth for April fools or Halloween.
Dude and totally in the same sentence that's how good of an idea it is.
You should do Pangea vs Repashy
I actually recorded this video a few years ago and never posted it. Maybe I'll finally edit it together and throw it up!
Altitude Exotics can u do an updated version. Ice watched the old one but I wanna know if ur option has changed
I wake up for work at 630AM and my crestie is jumping around her enclosure wide awake.
HUGE 👍 up, informative & very funny !
My crestie is a pink flame morph and she eats the watermelon flavor pangea which looks like her colour which i just noticed when you said that their pattern does not depend on the diet😂
Makes sense! Once they drop their tail, they drop their whole reproductive system!!🤣
Leopard geckos are said to be crepuscular but I am with the train of thought that they are actually cathemeral/metaturnal because they are, in fact, awake sporadically throughout the middle of daytime and nighttime. I see it with mine too and he is in my room where it's quiet so he isn't being woken up. He just gets up during the day sometimes, walks around to check things out and then goes back to sleep. Compared to my crested geckos, true crepuscular animals, that becomes even more apparent because I really only see them get active towards the late evening into the night (not so much early mornings because I'm either asleep or don't have the time to peek in (no worries, they do get sprayed in the later morning hours simply for humidity, my room is oddly humid anyways which is a problem because I can't seem to get it under 70% if I can trust my gauges).
Also, my geckos all love mealworms and their pupa. Of course the babies get tiny baby mealworms and if I can pick out freshly molted mealworms I do just because they are easier to eat by a little bit but they munch them just like everything else.
Out of curiosity, the breeders you were talking about, I'm wondering if it's imperial and reptiles by mack since you said they supply petstores and those two both supply petsmart with reptiles among a few other smaller breeders depending on the locality of the petsmart. Not saying anything negative about them, I was just wondering.
My leo also wakes up at different times throughout the day. Though he sleeps for the majority of the daytime. My cresties won't even come out in the evening until I close the blinds or turn the lights down low,.. then in just a few minutes I'll hear them moving around.
@@markadams5009 yup my cresties are the same. But I never hear them. I rarely hear a "plop" but that's likely my leo falling over himself while pooping. He is really specific about his pooping routine 😂 and will stand upright in the corner on a little rock I put in there and he will poop right into the little gap between the rock and the glass. I don't think this animal could be any more ridiculous if he tried and I love him for it 💩😆
@@pewpewcat7679 I think what I hear the most from my adult crestie is him hanging upside down and crawling around on the screen top of his cage. As for my leo, I place some folded toilet paper on a flat rock in the corner that he goes in. I love that is so easy to just swap out whenever he goes. I love my leo! He's so brightly colored that he almost looks fake lol! Although the best thing about him is that he has an aberant pattern on his head. Instead of the normal spots, he has one huge circle pattern that takes up his whole head with a big dot right in the middle!! Lol it's how he got his name, I just love my TARGET ! 😃❤️🦎
I’m a new gecko owner can you do a video of safe plants for enclosure and safe treats for them
Absolutely! These are great ideas and I will put this on my list
Finally a channel I can use and understand and will trust.
I have a question. I feed our crested gecko Pangea. Do I still have to dust the insect with calcium or is the Pangea enough and an insect a treat??
I would still dust the insects yes. We use Repashy Calcium Plus
i love my 3 crested. but they are wake mostly at night.. xo love this chanel my one guy who lost his tail do to my cat nevr grew bak , but lately he ha been sleeping under the coconut soil bc that is where the crickets hide, while my other guy sleeps or relaxes his eyes inside the card board paper towel roll,but my young female will stay up on the tree limb behind my fake leaves..and they like to come out when it starts to be dusk.. all threw the night i hear them .. they are the best... thank yu for your knowledge..
My gecko loves to just relax on a giant rock I have on the terrarium
I was actually a bit surprised when I saw my gecko on the ground :p But yeah he gets down there.
I would call your partially regrown tail dalmatian "sir Richard Bottom"
I put my crested gecko in the rapshi tub and shook it really hard like you said and you were right, he did not turn into a banana but he is not moving. Can you help me I don’t know what to do
Howdy! I'm here researching before I get my first gecko! Thanks for the quality vids! Question for Altitude Exotics or any of you other experienced folks keeping geckos. I already have a colony of red runner cockroaches for my tarantulas. would that be an appropriate substitute for crickets? I really don't like keeping crickets. Smelly noisy things.
Red runners can be a bit to quick for the geckos sometimes. Dubia are a great alternative to crickets
@@AltitudeExotics Hey thanks for responding! What if I kill it a little?
It would be worth a try!
@@jumpyspiderlady8454 hahaha sorry, that "kill it a little" has me rolling. How do you kill it a little? I'm mainly laughing though because I have to take the back legs off of crickets so my slow leo can have a chance. He is even too slow for dubias. The crickets still scoot around super fast even without their hind legs though. Crested geckos are much more capable getting their insects than leopard geckos are though. I have some tiny little crested babies that are barely a month old and they are much more professional than my 1 year old 63g+ heavier leopard gecko
@@pewpewcat7679 you squish it a bit so it still moves, but it can't really walk. it doesn't move for long of course. It's a good way to feed slings (spiderlings) who are too picky for prekilled. Red runners are fast, which is why I keep them for the spiders. Dubia are too still and worse, bury themselves. If they stay alive in with a tarantula who then tries to molt, they could kill the tarantula. Not super likely, but it can happen.
thank gosh i got pangea seems like a good food my baby loves it
that SWEET gecko info
I have a question for you can I keep a crested gecko in a 10g inverted forever that's all I have and I don't have the money for a bigger enclosure I can provide the right foods and hides mist and even veterinarian care thanks to care credit.
I thought this gecko was greyed out by using photoshop but that's how their morph are haha!
My crested gecko seems nocturnal, I watch him every day, he comes out at 10 pm, and sleeps at 7 am. Im confused, (even though I knew that they were crepuscular).
Mine is nocturnal too, as far as I know. Gets up at around 7pm and goes to sleep at 7 am. He's a baby though, maybe adults are different.
Walnut Gynne Enderson 7am isn’t exactly when the suns come up especially in ur house where it might stay more dark so they find a place to sleep because they have been awake for the amount the need
@@palacsinta6622 7pm is more crepuscular
My crested gecko doesn't like his CGD but only loves eating crickets and waxworms, what do I do?
Smaller lizards that eat and some how get down larger mealworms that can’t properly chew the worm can have a rust of the worm eating it’s way out. I had this happen with a young fence lizard not knowing that the worm didnt die. It did eat its way through and was horrible. So even then I still make sure if I hold have bigger meal/super worms for younger lizards I crush or take off the head the enough to not allow anything like this to happen.
Not really common at all but more so a rarer mistake that can happen with new owners who don’t do research.
Oh perfect video for me! I have a dozen cresties and have one parthogenic egg that should hatch any day now!💚🦎
Did it ever hatch? Did it survive?
@@dm2836 sadly no, after I knew for sure it wasn't going to ever hatch I dissected the egg and found a partially formed crestie. All the parts were there, just looked like it needed to cook longer. Super interesting how that could even happen at all with a female who has never been with a male. Everything I read said they rarely ever survive so I never had high hopes, but I incubated it until there was no question it wasn't hatching.
@@MaraJadeSkky That’s too bad but still cool it happened at all
@@dm2836 that's exactly how I look at it. I keep the specimen in my reptile room. Just further proof how amazing reptiles are.💚🐍🦎
Thoughts on giving them smushed banana as a treat?
Thats a good idea on ocassion. I'm going to do a video on good treat ideas for geckos.
Altitude Exotics please do!
Its coming very soon!
Altitude Exotics awesome. I never can find about give them treats. So which kind of fruits or anything. So this would be interesting! Can’t wait
Is it normal for them to be a tease? Mine actively teases the cats. He's driving them crazy. He's over 4 years old now. Still has his tail. Very relaxed until he sees the cats. He then proceeds to taunt and teast them.
I love your videos, Im getting my first crestie here soon I’m just doing all of the proper research! Question.. I’ve heard you don’t have to feed your crested gecko insects and that Pangea or the other food alternatives are enough to feed them and keep them healthy. Is that true?
That is true. A diet that includes insects is best but a balanced diet of just good prepared diets is ok.
do they smell even in they do I’ll find a way around it but I was wondering if they smell? And how’s yours doing
@@jimyon60fps76 Not if you clean their cages often, not at all. I use paper towels on the bottom of the cage so it's easy to spot clean. Only smell is if they get messy in their food before you noticed and it gets everywhere, but just keep a close eye on them. Amazing pets, but be super careful, they're small and jump... Far! It's easy to think they're chill, resting on your hand for awhile and *BING* they jump!
My crested gecko won't eat anything but crickets. I persistently tried to make him eat food. I bought every kind of food and made him wait till I was scared he'd gone to long without eating, then I'd try another food, etc, I am currently only feeding him crickets. I had no choice I do scoop his food down In the bag of crickets and gently mix it around and coat the crickets in it. I've done my research and I don't know what to do.
Can you confirm or debunk if wax worms are not okay to feed because they can’t digest them? The only time I had this happen to me was when I fed one of my babies a wax worm and a few days later I found it halfway out of its rear end but not in poop form. Took it a few days to pass it, I was afraid it wouldn’t be able to and was told to just leave it and it’ll pass itself. I haven’t fed waxworks to any of my geckos ever since cause i was afraid it would happen again.
MY gecko is definitely more nocturnal then anything 🤣 he sleeps during the day and is active on occasion but at NIGHT he is very loud and constantly is jumping around and being active.
haha my favorite is someone asked if i could fee my hedgehogs meal worms cause the thought that would happen so i showed them a video of my hedgehog also known as a monster just devouring the worms (they were dead)
Can you use mashed up fruit with the rapashy in it instead of water just to make sure theyre getting fresh and compleat diet . we dont get the Pangaea in stores in bc canada but they all sell rapashy . what are good insects i love to feed hornd worms i used to feed my chinese water dragon she loved it and pet smart in kelowna like 20 mins from mt home sells them .only $1.50 each my crested gecko is only 7 weeks old and loves crickets
wow amazing video i love crestys
I’ve been told not to feed mealworms because it can cause impaction from the chitin, I’ve never heard of that eating it’s way out thing
do you think crickets could be a bad diet for crested geckos? When I was younger my brother had a crested gecko and it ate crickets, but it never chewed them and when it would poop, there woud be whole crickets in his poop. i hadn't thought about this until now, but we haven't had that gecko in like ten years..
I recently got the fig pangea food and most of my cresties are not fans, thankfully the bag is almost empty.
My crestie and my gargoyle don't like it either. They prefer watermelon and apricot. The crestie came from Tikis so it'll eat Repashy too as that's what they feed.
Great video. Keep it up
Thank you!
I’m guessing this one is true since a fairly big breeder made a youtube vid about It but I’m not sure so I would never dare to try It. I’m wondering though what you know about It? They said that one can give the geckos, I think It was Repashy without any water, just the powder?
*gecko gets fired up* wow my gecko must has snuck some apples into their cage last night!
25 years ago brrading lots of beardeds i had mealworms eat a hole in 2 different babies around 2 months old.....i think it was a issue with too low heat maybe, either way, I saw it myself, sucked.
Wait, if they are awake at dawn and dusk how do we I hear my crestie rustling around in his cage at like 11 pm?
They wake up at dawn and stay up at night until the sun rises
Ive read that you couldnt feed mealworms, not because they chew out the stomach but because they cannot properly digest the chitlin or the shell of the worms and can cause impaction.
where did you get those big bags of food? I'm getting a creative in a few days and want to stick up in food.
crestie**
My crested Want to hunt it doesent eat fruit so we are just giving it some insects but if they are dead it dont want to Eat it
My created gecko refuses to eat anything other than live crickets. It absolutley will not eat anything else. Including the diet food made for them. The only way i can get him to eat the diet is if i smear it directly on his face. This tends to tick him off and he runs away and wipes it off on plants them licks the rest off. I left a bowl of meal worms in there one time until they turned into beatles. He would look at them and walk away.
6:50 I’m dying 😂
well, that about diet, i don't know man
first i want to cover up that i was feeding my cresties like this for a 5 years because i was told to feed them like this.
My cresties lived 4 years on a diet that was mainly made up of only crickets, and veeery few baby food, veery few mashed banana.
Crickets were something like 85% of their diet. The fact they didn't have any problems is a more surprising when knowing that it shouldn't be like this. Maybe it's because of they've got a mix of vitamins and minerals on each feeding. Like the crickets were dipped in it.
Then I learned that it shouldn 't e like that. Cresties already grown up, being 5 years old. So I bought them pangea. That grey one, i don 't know the name and fig one. I tried to gave them both. But they seemd so disgusted by it. After only a bit, and they wouldn 't want to touch it anymore. I even tried to not feed them because I reaaaally wanted to teach them to eat it. It didn 't work. They would rather eat dirt and leaves.
Am I the only one who thinks that gecko diet is probably pretty damn edible. I kinda wanna try it
How do u tame a crested gecko mine is too skittish 🥺
My crested gecko is awake all night...
Unless you record them you actually never know because they could go back to sleep at night
@@crestiez7825 i stay up rly late. In th middle of the night he is running around like crazy. He is erong
Ziggy the Gecko crepuscular animals are active a majority of the night so in fact you are wrong
I've never fed mealworms because I thought they weren't as nutritious as dubias or crickets. Is that true?
I’ve seen a bearded dragon get its eye taken out by a meal worm, I only saw a picture of the beardie with a bloody eye but I believed it also watching leopard geckos video where it grabbed on her geckos eye
So I’m getting a crested gecko soon and have done much research, but I need to ask, can I mix the Pangea powder mix into the mist that I will spray around the terrarium? And will that be enough as for daily nutrients?
Why would you want the food all over everything, including the glass? And it molds pretty quickly, you're going to be doing a full clean out all the time due to mold everywhere.. why...
Walleye....it’s a question that’s why I asked, I didn’t now the powder molded?? Calm down
Walleye she also said that she doesn’t use a water bowl so that was what confused me, where else would she put the powder mix in
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@@colinvettese3059 I'm not riled up. So... don't know what to tell you there. The powder is dehydrated fruit. So yes, it has a shelf life. An even shorter shelf life when mixed, as it should be, with water.
my crestie ruffels in the leaves at night
12:50 my sister have a gecko that almost always runs around on the tank floor
Love this myth videos! 😂😂
Do you mist your crested geckos?
If I feed it panga I don’t know how to spell sorry but if I feed it thst can I also feed it fruit every now and then as a treat or not
Am I the only one feeding dried meal worms? I get the bag that is meant for bird feeders (also have birds so, one stone kind of thing), and my babies don't seem to mind.
So it’s okay to feed my baby mealworms? Everyone says they can’t digest them
Yep, that's totally untrue
Thank you so much for the great info! If people are that stupid they should never own an animal.
But my geckos are extremely active allllll night I mean like two am and they are bouncing around there tank like crazy people lol
Teamgeist only one per tank
Teamgeist oh ya I understand that nope I only pair around spring and it’s in a neutral zone lol
welp those giant breeders need to stop providing to pet stores
Hi 👋🏽
Awh I rlly wanted a BANNANA :(
The other myth about mealworms is that can cause impaction. Absolutely false.
I feed Black Soldier Fly Larvae and Mealworms as my staple insects.
Never had an issue
Is it ok to feed mealworms to a 3g baby and if so how often
I know for other reptiles it can. I own chameleons and mealworms are a big no
Well it doesn't help if pangea doesn't ship to South Africa
To the people who think a meal worm will eat out of a geckos stomach, ever heard of stomach acid?
6:47 Are you sure😂?
So, the response to the seventh one was essentially: They do what they want and they don’t care about you opinions
Cresties don't eat much fruit in the wild, I suspect. I don't believe the plants on that island bear fruit all year.
I got told we shouldn't handle it
LOL 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Jesus Loves all of you guys
you are kind of cute really......haha
The toad story made me sad, i hope it is a lie
My Gecko can't change to a Banana?! I wanted to Eat him😞😡
🤮Sorry don't feel well today
If your gecko didn’t vote for Biden it’s not black
thank you for clearing up the myth about mealworms! i was told that cresties cant digest them properly, i got scared because i had been feeding my crestie mealworms for months. this really helped me!😁
3:12 lmao mine will make alot of noise movin around at 3am