Complete meal replacement powder for crested geckos. Just add water — provides complete nutrition with real fruit flavors.
Complete nutrition
Just add water
Real fruit ingredients
Widely trusted
Powder can be messy
Geckos may be picky
Short shelf life once mixed
Nutrition: 10/10 · Ease of Use: 10/10 · Value: 8/10 · Palatability: 9/10
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Most pet lizards eat insects, and keeping them means keeping feeder insects alive in your house. Crested geckos are the exception: they are frugivorous omnivores, and a well-formulated complete meal replacement powder can be their entire diet.
That is genuinely unusual and it is why crested geckos became one of the most beginner-friendly reptiles available. You mix a powder with water, put it in a dish, and the animal's nutrition is covered.
The mixture is typically around two parts water to one part powder, to the consistency of a thick fruit purée. Mix it fresh.
Fresh food every other day is the usual pattern for adults, with juveniles fed daily or close to it.
Remove and discard uneaten food within about 24 hours. It spoils, grows bacteria and attracts fruit flies. This is the most common husbandry slip with MRP diets.
Use shallow dishes, ideally elevated. Crested geckos are arboreal and are more comfortable feeding off the ground than on it.
Two dishes in different places in a larger enclosure, especially if you keep more than one animal.
Rotate flavours if your gecko is fussy. A gecko that refuses one variety often takes another, and rotation also spreads any single-formula limitation.
A complete MRP genuinely covers nutrition. Many keepers still offer appropriately sized insects — dubia roaches, crickets, black soldier fly larvae — once a week or so, for enrichment and behavioural interest rather than necessity.
If you do:
Never feed insects larger than the space between the gecko's eyes. Oversized prey is a genuine cause of impaction and neurological problems.
Dust with calcium on a schedule appropriate to the animal's age.
Gut-load the insects with quality greens for 24 to 48 hours first, because a feeder's nutritional value depends heavily on what it recently ate.
Crested geckos are forgiving, which means husbandry mistakes are survivable rather than absent.
Temperature is the one to get right, and the mistake is usually the opposite of what people expect. Crested geckos are a cool-temperature species and heat stress is a real and common cause of death in captivity. They do well at ordinary room temperatures in most homes and often need no supplemental heat at all. If your room is warm, that is a problem to solve, not a feature.
Measure with a digital probe, and if you do use any heat source, never run it without a thermostat.
Humidity should cycle rather than sit constant — higher at night after misting, drying out during the day. Constant saturation causes respiratory problems and grows mould; constant dryness causes stuck sheds, and retained shed around toes and the tail tip constricts and causes tissue loss.
Height over floor space. They are arboreal. Vertical space, branches, cork bark and foliage matter more than floor area.
Calcium sacs. Check the small sacs on either side of the roof of the mouth periodically — they indicate calcium status, and a vet or an experienced keeper can show you what to look for.
Keep it sealed, cool and dry. Vitamins degrade with heat, light and humidity, and a tub that has been open in a warm room for a year is not delivering what the label states.
Buy a tub size you will use within a few months, and write the opening date on it.
Completeness and convenience score at the top, and for good reason: a genuinely complete diet in a powder is what makes this species accessible to keepers who could not manage live feeder insects. Nutrition is strong. Value is fair, and storage discipline matters more than most people realise.
Yes — a well-formulated complete meal replacement powder covers their nutrition, which is unusual among reptiles and is a large part of why crested geckos are so beginner-friendly. Many keepers still offer insects weekly for enrichment rather than necessity.
Fresh food every other day for adults, daily or close to it for juveniles. Remove and discard uneaten food within about 24 hours — it spoils, grows bacteria and attracts fruit flies, and leaving it is the most common slip with these diets.
Cooler than people expect. They are a cool-temperature species and heat stress is a real and common cause of death in captivity — they do well at ordinary room temperatures in most homes and often need no supplemental heat. Measure with a digital probe, and never run any heat source without a thermostat.
Yes, and many keepers do weekly for enrichment. Never feed insects larger than the space between the gecko's eyes, dust with calcium on a schedule appropriate to its age, and gut-load the insects with quality greens for a day or two first, since a feeder's value depends on what it recently ate.
No. Unlike many geckos, a crested gecko that drops its tail never regrows it. It is cosmetic rather than harmful but it is permanent, so handle calmly and never grab or restrain by the tail.