Repashy vs Pangea: Which Crested Gecko Diet to Buy

Both are complete diets, so this is not a nutrition argument

The first thing to clear away is the idea that one of these is food and the other is a compromise. Both are meal replacement powders formulated to be the whole diet, and keepers who have run both describe the nutritional difference as not the deciding factor. Our separate reviews of the Repashy Crested Gecko Diet and the Pangea Fruit Mix land close together for that reason: these are two good products, scored on the same axes, separated by a few tenths.

What that means practically is that you are not risking your gecko's health by picking the wrong one. You are risking a jar of powder you cannot get it to eat, which is a much smaller problem and a much more common one.

What decides it is feeding response

The pattern across keepers who have run both is consistent, and it is about appetite rather than analysis. A gecko that has gone lukewarm on one powder frequently attacks the other, and in the reports we read that switch more often ran toward Pangea than away from it. One keeper who had fed Repashy for a decade without any trouble tried a small bag of Pangea out of curiosity and described every gecko cleaning its bowl for the first time in a while, with weight gain following. Another who started on Repashy says their geckos now refuse it after being moved across.

We want to be careful about how far that generalises, because the threads that produce these reports are titled things like "Repashy vs Pangea" and they naturally attract people with a story about switching. Keepers whose geckos have eaten the same powder happily for five years have no reason to post. So read this as a real pattern among keepers who changed something, not as a verdict that one powder is widely refused.

The reverse case is also in the evidence and deserves its place: there are keepers whose geckos will not touch Pangea and eat Repashy without complaint. If that is your gecko, you have your answer and nothing here should talk you out of it.

Flavor is a bigger variable than brand

This is the most useful thing we can tell you, and it is the thing the brand-versus-brand framing obscures. Both lines sell several flavors, and the same keeper's geckos will devour one and ignore another from the same brand. One keeper swears by the banana apricot Pangea and reports that none of their geckos will touch the banana papaya. Another says theirs hate the watermelon specifically. A third keeper's gecko loves exactly that watermelon.

So "my gecko will not eat Pangea" very often means "my gecko will not eat the one bag of Pangea I bought". Before you write off a brand, try a different flavor within it. That is a cheaper experiment than switching lines, and it resolves a lot of apparent brand preferences.

It also argues for buying small. A jar you can abandon without annoyance is worth more than a bulk tub of something your gecko turns out to dislike, and both lines sell sizes small enough to treat as a test.

The difference you notice at the dish

There is one consistent handling difference keepers mention: mixed to the same instructions, Repashy tends to come out the wetter of the two. It is a minor thing and the keeper who raised it said as much, but it matters if you are using the dish as evidence. A thicker mix holds tongue marks, which is how you tell a gecko has eaten when you did not see it happen, and that is the whole technique behind judging whether a crested gecko is actually off its food. If you are mixing Repashy and want that signal, mix it stiffer than the label implies.

Both lines also sell versions with insect protein included, which closes the one real gap in a fruit-only powder for keepers who would rather not keep live feeders. If you are choosing partly to avoid crickets, look at those variants in either brand rather than treating it as a reason to pick a side.

A jar lasts longer than new keepers expect

Powdered diet looks expensive per bag and is cheap per feeding, and that reframes the whole cost question. One keeper feeding two crested geckos reported an eight ounce bag of Pangea lasting past four months and still not half gone. At that rate the difference in shelf price between these two is close to irrelevant against the months of feeding you get out of either.

The practical consequence is that cost should not decide this. Buy the one the gecko eats, and buy the small size first.

Buying them is where they differ most

This is the gap the specifications do not show you, and for an Amazon buyer it is the biggest one. Repashy is reliably stocked there. Pangea, at the time we checked, is not: the eight ounce bag shows as unavailable with no offer, the larger size shows as out of stock, and searching for it surfaces mostly other brands. Pangea sells direct from its own store, which is where most keepers who use it seem to buy, and that is the route we would point you to if Pangea is what you want.

We are not scoring Pangea down for that, because the product is the same product wherever it ships from, and our score for it sits where our review of it landed. But if your plan was to add a jar to an existing order, that plan works for one of these and often does not for the other, and you should know that before you pick.

One last practical note that came up repeatedly and is worth more than any brand argument: if you have taken on a gecko that someone else was feeding, start with whatever it was already eating. Switching a settled eater to prove a point about brands is a risk you are taking for no benefit.

Our verdict

On the evidence, Pangea has the better feeding response and takes the head-to-head. If you are starting fresh, have no constraint on where you buy, and want the powder most likely to be eaten enthusiastically, order a small bag of Pangea direct and see what your gecko does with it.

Repashy is the one we would hand to someone who wants this decided in one purchase. It is a genuinely good diet, it is stocked where you already shop, and the reports of geckos refusing it are balanced by reports of geckos refusing the other one. It also happens to be the grain-free option, which matters to a small number of keepers for reasons that have nothing to do with the gecko.

And whichever you buy, remember what the evidence says the variable is. If the dish comes back full, change the flavor before you change the brand.