Is there any way to teach a gecko to eat worms from a dish? Duke and Carmen, my newest female, both refuse to eat worms from a dish. While I don't mind hand feeding Duke with forceps it is difficult with Carmen because she isn't very tame and she's in an aquarium so I have to reach down in and she usually gets scared and runs away. I can't usually get her to take more than 3 worms at a time before she gets too agitated. When I first got her I was a given a very helpful suggestion of changing the color of her dish from white to dark green so that she could see the worms better but that doesn't seem to make a difference in her case and the worms just end up escaping and wandering around her tank until they die. Any other suggestions?

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Get one of the new worm dishes with a lip on the lid,,,,they cannot escape. And go with a darker color as you stated. They do work really well.

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i seen a dish at the pet store that vribrates and makes a crix sound,i don`t know if it would intice them to go to the dish,just a thought hope it helps

I've never seen one of those skull---might just work,,,who knows. When we first went to the lipped dish it took our Geckos a few feeds to figure out, now when we put that dish in the tank........Lookout !!!! they know it's the once a week waxworm fix !

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I've seen both types, the vibrating dish is used for the can o crix to simulate them being alive.

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yeah I didn`t know if it would make the want to go to the dish just an idea

She doesn't have any trouble chasing crix or snapping up wiggly worms if I hold them for her, she just doesn't get the idea that a bowl of worms is a good thing.

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Have you ever dropped a worm in front of her or by her? Instead of letting them escape? I've noticed some of my Leopard Geckos did not like mealworms just moving around out of the blue, instead they enjoy the surprise of a mealworm being close o them enough to see and eat. if she eats crickets you really should not worry that much.

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Eating just crix is like me just eating rice. Not good. Carmen is thin and was not well fed before I got her therefore it is important that she eat worms (supers, waxes, and mealies) as well as crix. I'll just wave food at her constantly and that ought to work.

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"A BOA CONSTRICTOR IS A Boa constrictor!"

My cresteds won't eat from/drink from/touch any of those ceramic dishes sold in pet stores. When I offer worms I put them in a petri dishes, even my male who is an insectphobiac will eat worms out of it, its weird and unique, but worked for me.