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Well, after replenishing the gutload supply a few times, I feel like it's about time to clean out the whole thing and put in some fresh gutload. It's gross to stick my hand in there now, because I feel like I'm sifting through mealworm feces that's gotten mixed up with all the powdery gutload.

However, I've still got a good number of live mealworms still in there. What's the best way to go about with sifting them out from the gutload? Some of them are really small.
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chickabowwow

3.2 leopard geckos (Rosie, Locke, Lisa, Caesar, Tommy)
and 3 eggs a' cookin'

lay some apple slices on top and every hour or so stop in and shake them into a new container.
over the course of a day you should get almost all of the worms
I did that today actually and there were only enough left in the bin to feed my 3 remaining juvies
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4.5 Leopard Geckos
1.0 Marbled Gecko
1.1 Red Eared Sliders
0.2 Siamese Mice

np
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chickabowwow

3.2 leopard geckos (Rosie, Locke, Lisa, Caesar, Tommy)
and 3 eggs a' cookin'

I actually poor the contents of the bin through my screen spaghetti collander - give them a little shake and all the debris runs through trapping the worms in the strainer. Of course, I want to buy a new screen collander and can't find them - why oh why must everything be plastic now a days?? the plastic holes are too big to do any good - the screen is perfect (sigh).

Good luck!!
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I just got a screen colander for this very purpose. The screen is pretty fine, but still, with baby mealies in there, it's big enough to let some thru. Then I had to poke thru all that worm poop to find each and every one--can't bear to throw a good mealie away!

Got my screen one from a Marsh supermarket (in the midwest here). Next time I might just wait until the worms are a little bigger before I do it, but otherwise, it worked great.

1.6.1 leopards ( 1 egg)
0.1 bearded dragons
2.4 fuzzy ferrets

Well here in cali, you can find them in a lot of places. I registerd this past weekend for wedding gifts. There were some of the screen collanders at Target, Bed bath & Beyond and JcPennys.
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2 male leos: Winky HY & Lenny TangCT & 6 Female Leos: Sunshine Super tang,Starburst, & Daisy Super tang carrot tail, Serenity Tremper HY Jungle Albino, Skittle Hypo-Golden, and Banana Patternless.