Offering any variety of live and supplemented foods would help. My leos all get superworms and mealworms and soon to be starting on roaches as well... I'll be alternating the food sources so no one is impacted by the numbers I have to feed off. Large mealworms I go through almost 1750 a week... Move the adults to superworms and you go through less than a 3rd of that total with 23 geckos at various ages.. I plan to add the roaches as a 3rd and final feeder for my breeders and young juveniles. They also get at least 2 doses of jumpstart (Appetite and caloric/vitamin supplement twice a month in addition to their normal calcium and vitamin regimen. I don't overuse supplements though.. usually the week they get jumpstart they don't get any other supplementation at all save for gutloaded food items. I've come by these methods through my own work and effort and found my adolescent leos to be superior in size and health at 4 months of age than most people's (This means 30 grams at 4 months.. ) Once in a while I'll have a baby that fails to start eating well and I'll have to assist feed but thats not common any longer.



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Lucien



1.1 Columbian Redtail Boa (BCI)(Sutekh and Isis)

5.11.Leopard geckos (1.2 Blizzards (Caine, Phoenix, and Mirage), 0.2 Tangerine Albinos (Tequila Sunrise ...Tiki for short, and Casper), 1.0 Tremper Albino (Mycah), 0.3 Poss. Het. Albino (Annika, Lace, and Aris), 1.1 dbl. het blizzard x tang albino (Malice, Malfeas), 1.0 Full Stripe Chocolate Tremper Albino (Discord), 0.1 pastel (Raven) and 1.2 Normals)

0.1 Savannah Monitor (Kiros) (R.I.P. November 18, 2005)

13 rats (plus pups)

2 Dogs (Loki and Storm)

2 cats (Ashe and Hercules)

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