Crested Gecko Diet Formulated Based On Wild Cresties – Blue River Diets

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I remember scrolling on Instagram about six months ago and seeing the numerous videos covering Exotics Keepers Magazine’s expedition to New Caledonia, where a team of researchers went to find crested geckos in the wild to observe their natural behaviors. This was so incredibly interesting to me, as crested geckos are very rare to observe in the wild and wildly different than what we read in care guides. I ended up watching the full-length podcast with Thomas Marriott where he discussed the process of finding the geckos, the temperatures they observed during their time there, and replicating their wild habitat in how we keep them in captivity.

Now this may seem entirely unrelated to the topic at hand, but this trip to New Caledonia was actually funded by Blue River Diets (the food I will be talking about here), where they were each able to learn an incredible amount of information during the trip about what crested geckos eat in the wild. To me, this is so valuable and shows that the brand making the food has goals to better crested gecko care, rather than simply make a commercial gecko diet that may not provide them with the nutrition that they need. It would be so easy to keep care standards exactly where they are now, but I am simply not interested in supporting a lack of growth in the reptile community or brands that avoid growth. So, I am beyond thrilled to be partnering with Blue River Diets for this blog post and to be an affiliate with them for the foreseeable future!!

So, this month I had the chance to try out (and by ‘I’, I mean Smeagol) the Blue River Diets in the flavors Fruit & Bug and Mango Madness. Since my gecko cannot speak for himself, I’ll go ahead and tell everyone that he licked his bowl clean. He must really like diets with real fruit, high-quality protein, and essential minerals … obviously.

In all seriousness, these diets are crafted to support your gecko through every stage of its life, whether it be a baby gecko that you just brought home or a senior gecko. Blue River Diets avoid unnecessary fillers in their diets and even include a section on their website that discusses every single ingredient in the diet, as well as the purpose and benefits of those ingredients. In reptile keeping, it is common to be unsure of the fruits and veggies that are safe to feed your reptile and what purpose they serve, so this is so valuable to have readily available. I had no idea how some of the ingredients they use could be so powerful in the health of a crested gecko. For example, who knew that coconut supplies medium-chain triglycerides, allowing for the food to be easier metabolized and provide energy that does not contribute to weight gain? Not me!

If you aren’t familiar with a powder crested gecko diet, I will briefly explain the simplicity. All you have to do is mix two parts water and one part formula, then mix and serve. You can store the mixed diet for up to seven days in the fridge, which is useful if you have numerous crested geckos to feed. A good hack is to keep it in a hair dye bottle and squirt it into their bowls from there; you don’t have to manually mix it every day that way.

Overall, Smeagol and I are massive fans of everything that Blue River Diets is doing to further knowledge of crested geckos in the wild and in captivity. I truly believe that if more reptile companies were taking the steps toward research that this brand is, we would have healthier, happier reptiles in captivity and an ongoing excitement of everything that we could learn.

If you’d like to check out these diets and give your geckos an opportunity for a healthier diet, I would highly recommend checking out Blue River Diets with my link here!