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My Leo for some reason is not eatting her/him meal worm's
she/he eats cricket's though .

her substrate is repti carpet( carpet gets stuck in her toes ) but i think i might use tile ? is tile good ? ..
the leo is 3 inches and 3/4 - ( anyone have and idea of how old too )?

shes got heatting at 88 degrees ( planning on getting a more red light bulb for it .
and it has a heating pad below along with a hut and a humidity hut we also offer new gut loaded worms every day ..
ans she/he has water .

will it take her some time from being in a new envorement ? to start eatting meal worm's

heres a picture to injoy of her/him
got from petco a few about 2 day's ago .. anyone tell me if she/hes looking ok ? also .. the shed that was on her toes is gone .. from a good soaking

You should try searching the forums for answers, we've answered the same question about every 2 weeks since I started posting here, I think. But in the meantime:

Geckos, like humans, like what they like and there is no reason to force them to eat something they don't want as long as it is of reasonable nutritional value. I'll get spammed for my next comment, but from my research I prefer to feed crickets over mealworms and have wonderful geckos to show for it who've never eaten a mealworm. If s/he doesn't want to eat the mealworms, don't bother with them or feed them as treats from tongs later. Just make sure whatever you feed regularly is fresh, gutloaded, and dusted. As s/he gets older you can treat her to other sorts of worms as treats too.

Oh, and you may want to watch handling your gecko so close to shed, especially in the first few weeks of having him/her. It is a very stressful time before shed (you may even notice them not eating sometimes) and it is a very stressful time when they are moved. So you've got two stressful times at once there. Once she's done shedding, do a good once over of her to make sure all the shed is off, especially the claws. There is lots of threads here explaining this in detail if you need. Good luck and welcome to the world of leos!
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thank you for explaining .. it to me ..

i have 8 beared dragon's so i know the consept of cricket's .. so i know there gut loaded .. and from her/he shedding that might be why shes not eatting
thank's again .

Yeah, I was in the same boat a couple of weeks ago when I got my first Leo. He despises mealworms but adores crickets, I didn't wanna force him to eat mealworms (mainly because he was new and it's just not worth it really). As long as you gutload them and all that stuff he/she will be fine . Mine seems to be growing a nice chubby tail and all he eats is crickets

Allie

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Sleepygecko,
You always give great advice. It probably is the shed and yes, the leo probably shouldn't be handled during this time.

As far as the comment about crickets and mealworms, I'm not sure why anyone would slam you for that. I feel crickets are better than mealworms also and feed both myself only because I can keep mealworms long after I run out of crickets (ordering once a month).
As long as they are properly gutloaded and dusted before feeding, I just don't think there is much of a difference between the two (as far as nutritional value).... Ok, now it's probably my turn to get slammed
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I thought I was coming off rather frustrated lately and am just trying to help while feeling like a broken record. Thanks for the, possibly undeserved, compliment.

There is a member who touts very strongly the NI (nutritional information) of mealworms who is fond of angry posts. There was the beginning of a good discussion once of what the NI of the leo's natural prey was and how to replicate that, but it never went anywhere. Too bad, I wish I had to time to research that more closely even just out of pure curiosity. For a while every time I posted something along the lines of "just feed it what it wants for a while until settled" I was getting messages saying I was abusing my geckos by offering such low value food as crickets. Of course, my 10" female (with no giant genes) begs to differ about the low value of of her crunchy crickets. To each his own, all other things being the same. Thanks again for the encouragement.
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