Golden geckos and CGD?

[Zara]

Hey everyone, I have a friend who has a pair of (I think) golden gecko that he'd like to get rid of. I'm not exactly sure that they are golden geckos, he says they're about 3-5 inches, are not nice, and have purple-ish sides with yellow backs.

I was wondering if anyone has ever kept gold geckos on a diet of CGD? I'd read that they eat baby food on some care sheets, but with insects. I was thinking of feeding just CGD, because I have no money to pay for insects every week. Has anyone tried this? Is it ok for the geckos?

If it's not, I'll direct him to either a mom and pap pet store that will take them back or my herp Association to surrender them.

Thank you guys!

[dcarter]

If their diet is that close to a cresteds I don't see why you can't try. Baby food and insects is basically saying fruit and protein right? They sound pretty cool looking it would be nice if you got them. I wish I knew the right answer but in my opinion they could easily be added to the list of geckos who are not rhacs and still eat the diet.

[Gecko Ranch]

I would not go on descriptions, I'd have the guy look up Gekko ulikovski to make sure that is what it is first. Here's good pic:

http://www.gekkota.com/html/g__ulikovskii.html

I have found all the Gekko genus geckos I work with, G. gekko and G. vitattus, to be big fans of MRP. I'm sure G. ulikovski would too!

[Zara]

Yeah, I'm going to go see them and get pictures before I commit to them. Also have to talk my mother into a couple more geckos for a couple more months. I'm not even really sure if I want them, sure I'm a gecko fan, but golden geckos were never really on my "want" list. I'll have to see. It's also a pair, and I don't want them breeding, 'course he said they haven't been laying recently, but have in the past. (And he needed a razor blade to get the eggs off the cage, another trait that leads me to think it's that species.) We shall see.

[Andrew Gilpin]

we've been keeping G. vittatus, and G. gecko for a few years now, and both take the CGD as Julie said. I must say though, I feel the white lines take it quite a lot better than the tokays. We fed a hatchling white stripe up to around 15 grams exclusively on the CGD and it was very healthy looking.

[Gecko Ranch]

Originally Posted by Andrew Gilpin

we've been keeping G. vittatus, and G. gecko for a few years now, and both take the CGD as Julie said. I must say though, I feel the white lines take it quite a lot better than the tokays. We fed a hatchling white stripe up to around 15 grams exclusively on the CGD and it was very healthy looking.

I would agree. I have some G. gekko that clean their cups very well, some just pick at it.