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Hey My little baby leo just up chucked a half digested mealworm...It's never happened before with her. Shes less than a month old, and she normally eats very well. (3-5 mealies a night :0 )

Just noticed now that she looks paler in color from her neck to her tail. I think that's just cause she's about to shed, but I'm not sure.

Forgot to ask...What do I do?

well i dont know what you can do but like a told someone earlier, when i first started i fed my babies mealworms also. i noticed they started puking them up aswell. after that day they never were the same and all slowly stopped eating, starved, and died.... sense then i have never fed any of my geckos meal worms and never had a problem. i wouldnt feed any more meal worms i would feed small crix. i feed my babies as much as they want, probably around 30 crix in 24 hours. they are about a month now

You think she'll switch to crix? How do I keep them in the bowl? clip their legs?

shes young i dont know why she wouldnt, at least lets hope she will. i dont use bowls for my babies i just put like 15 crix in and they eat them all and then i give them more. i dont use bowls because it makes them lazy i think.

>>Hey My little baby leo just up chucked a half digested mealworm...It's never happened before with her. Shes less than a month old, and she normally eats very well. (3-5 mealies a night :0 )

More than likely your baby regurgitated the mealworm do to the fact that it is just that - a baby. Their "eyes are bigger than their stomachs". They often gorge themselves, then regurgitate the prey-items that make them too uncomfortably full. Don't worry about it. Take a day or so off of feeding it, don't stress it out, just leave it be until you feed it in a few days. I've had a few babies regurgitate, but once they do it once, they shouldn't do it again. It's not that uncommon.
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Ok, I left the mealworms in over night. She looks and is acting fine, and ate 3 more worms and didn't regurgitate, so thats good. I'll take the worms out for a day or two and let her calm down. Thanks!

Or...I think it may be the temperature is too cold. I remember when my snake was younger...I had just come home from Yellowstone National Park, and it was time to feed my snake. I fed it a large rat fuzzy; then my dad turned the AC because it was kindda hot up stairs. The next thing I knew my juvy ball python threw up its meal. It was almost completely digested...all most all of the flesh had been digested...but you can make out the ribs very well (it was kindda like being in the slaughter house, and you can see ribs, that they hang on the meat hooks).