Reddit reviews Repashy Calcium Plus 3 Oz JAR

I would ditch those pellets as substrate and get yourself some slate tile. You can find it at almost any hardware store. You may have to cut some pieces with a tile cutter or wet saw to get them to fit the whole enclosure. You could also just use newspaper or paper tiles if you don't care about asethics.

I would say the most important things is to make sure he has the correct diet, temps and UVB lighting.For a baby you want the basking spot to be at least 105°f and cool side to be around 80°f. Reptisun 10.0 t5 for the UVB source is highly recommended but you can go with a quality mercury vapor bulb that also doubles as a basking bulb. Make sure to use a quality calcium/vitamin dust for the feeders and don't forget to gut load your feeders too.

The poo looks like normal poo to me. You can always find a herp vet that is close and do an initial checkup, they are usually pretty cheap for a wellness check ($40-$80).

Yeah, those Zilla kits all are pretty much terrible. You're better off not using a kit at all actually, since they are way overpriced compared to buying/making the things you need individually.


Definitely go for the 20 gallon long tank. That size tank is actually ideal for a single adult leopard gecko. Instead of the lights, you'll want to heat the tank with an under tank heater under one side that is controlled with a thermostat. That's not optional, since a UTH can get very hot if it isn't controlled. I use the Hydrofarm thermostat, and recommend it. It certainly isn't the best out there, but it does its job and you can't beat the price. Be sure to have a digital thermometer that can read the actual surface of your gecko's substrate, not the little ones that stick on the glass. A thermometer with a probe alongside an infrared temp gun works wonders.

I'd personally also ditch the reptile carpet for tile as well, since my guy kept snagging his toes and jaws on the carpet and the tile is a breeze to clean, but if yours does fine with the carpet it should work fine, just don't use sand. Be sure to have three hides: one on the cool end of the tank, one on the warm end, and a humid one. Exo Terra is my personal favorite for hides, but store brand ones work fine, or you could even make your own.


I can't really say how old your gecko is without pictures, but if you got it from a pet store it's probably pretty young. Be sure you dust its food with calcium and vitamins. Vitamin D3 is particularly important. Repashy Calcium Plus is great, since it's an all-in-one powder, but I know alternating Repti-Cal and Reptivite works as well.


Crickets are a great thing for it to eat actually, better than mealworms. However, variety is always nice, but I don't have a lot of tips on getting a gecko to try new foods since mine isn't picky. Dubia roaches, if you can get over the ick factor, make an even better feeder than crickets, and phoenix worms and Calci-Worms are also great options. I'd stick to feeding your gecko as much as it can eat in a night if it's a baby. You do need to catch and remove any crickets that aren't eaten in 15-30 minutes. I always try to corner them and grab them one at a time, even if that can take a while.

Also, be sure you're gutloading crickets before feeding them as well. Basically, feed them nutritious food before feeding them to your gecko. I recommend either Bug Burger or Cricket Crack, but there are a lot of options out there. Toss in some bits of carrot, potatoes, greens, or fruit as well, or use some gel polymer to keep them hydrated.


Sorry for the massive wall of text, but hopefully this helps! Good luck with your little buddy!

I would start out with a turkey mash. You can get low fat ground turkey at walmart. The ideal would be to use whole ground chicken but you need a meat grinder. And chop up some veggies into very small pieces like green pepper, mustard greens, zucchini and mix it all up. Mine will eat if I put on fish oil and once a week I dust with calcium/vitamin. Google tegu diet to get lists of acceptable veggies and diet.

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When I started dusting Mari's food, he HATED it so much and would almost refuse to eat. I'd have to dust every third bug or so to make sure he at least got some food and some vitamins. The product I was using at the time was the Reptivite+D3 powder.

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It got so bad that I ended up trying REPASHY Calcium Plus after reading lots of good reviews about it.

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It was like night and day! Mari didn't care at all about the REPASHY calcium mix and even bugs that have a ton on them go down the hatch without hesitation.

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We recently rescued a beardie who is much less picky so I've been using up the old powder on his meals, and the other night I threw a few small roaches in with his batch of big ones to get dusted. After I fed the beardie, I took the container into the other room to feed the leopard gecko and I immediately remembered why we had so much of the Reptivite left -- he refused to eat the roaches and I had to go get him a few others without the reptivite on them.

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TL;DR: For my leo it was as easy as switching brands to REPASHY. I accidentally did an experiment the other day and found that one year later he can definitely tell the difference and will not eat the (in his opinion) nasty Reptivite.

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