I am with Cody on this - I don't want to be rude, but 1) your geckos need calcium and vitamins all their lives not just as babies, and 2) IMO, if you can't afford to buy the supplements you shouldn't be keeping the animal.

You came here for help, and so I don't want to point out all your wrongs and no rights, but you are harming your geckos by not supplementing and providing the right diet. If you a) couldn't afford and b) forgot, to buy baby food and fruit and supplementation, then you should perhaps rethink keeping them. In my books, i chose to keep the animal so they always come first - if I couldn't afford their food I would go without to make sure they got fed.

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No offence is taken.
as far as I knew things were going swimmingly. I kept the tanks clean, kept the temps and humidity right, always had fresh water and fed them every other day.
I came asking for help and thats what I got, a little more then I expected but still appreciated. I won't be able to get to a pet store this weekend being a holiday but I'll mash up some fruit I have and offer that.
as far as giving my babies up, I'd rather loose my left poppa toe, I hear its important.

once again thanks for all the help and information.

A couple of observations:
- If you want a "no hassle" food for your geckos, the CGD alone is all that your geckos need (at least according to his author) and it is already suplemented with the required vitamins and calcium.
- If you want to add variety, prepare and freeze some other food, like this recipe and give it alternating with CGD.

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Goge, that's very respectable of you, and I'm glad you have not taken offence to our comments but rather taken them onboard. Please get hold of the essential calcium and vitamin products and try rbl's advice - makes for an easier life. Good luck with them, and I hope everything's ok with them. How is the female now?

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Any updates goge? How's the little guy doing?

Goge, this shed problem you described and the lack of calcium your rhac has been getting lately sounds like the first signs of Metabolic Bone Disease, which geckos in the Rhac genus are prone to get if the right amount of calcium is not given. I've had this shed problem once in a gargoyle and it turned out to become Metabolic Bone Disease. Please respond telling about the behavior of your gecko? Is it lethargic at all? Not really eating or moving?

Take your gecko some where to get checked out for Metabolic Bone Disease and if it is the case heres what you should do:

Don't feed your gecko solid foods such as crickets. Instead go for sofer foods such as mashed fruit, baby food, CGD, etc. Buy calcium powder. I use Sticky Tongue Miner-All. Use the calcium powder on the foods you give your gecko. If you use CGD then you won;t need to add calcium supplement. The reason to not feed solid foods is because the gecko can break its jaw if it tries to bite a cricket. Metabolic Bone Disease will make its bones very weak. Also buy this stuff call Bone Aid Liquid Calcium, its made by T-rex. This stuff comes in a dropper. Every day give your gecko 2-3 drops of this stuff. No more than that. If your gecko doesn;t want to lick the drops from the dropper, just kinda put the drops on the gecko's snout. As your gecko gets better and become more active, stop with the drops.

I know you said you don't have money right now to buy calcium supplement but if your gecko has Metabolic Bone Disease and you don't do this, it will result in death.

I hope this helps and please update us on your gecko