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QUESTION: I found a baby lizard about 1 1/2 in. the lady at pet store told me it was a desert geici. I can not find any info on computer. I need to know what to feed it and any other info you can give.

ANSWER: Hi Bobbie-I did a search with just typing in the words "Desert Gecko" into my browsers search engine and I came up with these links for you

The first link looks to me like it might be the gecko that you have found from the description of its size

I would venture to say that it will eat both small crickets and mealworms

I have never kept this species of lizard but they look very fascinating

Good Luck with it and let me know if you need any more info


http://www.californiaherps.com/lizards/pages/c.v.variegatus.html

http://www.geckoweb.org/profile/coleonyx-variegatus-variegatus

http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/june/papr/du_wbgecko.html

Sandy aka LadyGecko



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QUESTION: I found the links you sent. The pet stores here do not have meaworms or crickets this small. Someone told me to feed it banana baby food then i heard to try chicken baby food. I'm not sure which one to try. Thank you for your help in my search for the young one. I found it to be a big help but i still need more info. Again thank you

Answer
Hi Bobbie-This is going to be tricky feeding something as small as your lizard is with a syringe

You want to feed it but yet the actual process of catching it-holding it and trying to get it to lick a drop of formula off its nose can be very stressful for the young lizard
If you do choose to feed it
I would buy some Flukers Rept-A-Aid-the Insectivore/Carnivore formula and feed it that
Neither type of baby food that has been suggested to you would be nutritionally complete enough for a lizard of any type/species

I hate to say this-but I highly doubt that this small lizard will do well with being hand fed with a syringe

I would like to kindly suggest that if you can not find the appropriate sized bugs to feed it that you release it back into the wild as trying to syringe feed it might stress it to death-literally

Bringing in a reptile from "the wild" immediately increases it's stress and when stress levels are increased in reptiles-normal parasitic loads that they can carry in their wild habitat become over bearing and can stress can also severely run down their immune system

I would also like to suggest that you look into purchasing a captive born Gecko(or another species of lizard) if you are looking to keep a reptile/lizard

You will have much better luck with a captive born animal especially if you are just starting out with keeping reptiles

Take Care
Sandy aka LadyGecko