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I just noticed my mealworms are munching on the reptivite traces in the food bowl. I guess its not a bad thing, since it'll gutload them even more, but has anyone else noticed this?

-Lemur 6

I figure it's a good thing. More vitamin in the mealie, more in my leo.
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so you saw this phenomenon too?

Oh no!! I used to put my vitamins and mealworms in the same bowl but now I keep a seperate calcium dish...this means I'm doing my leos a disservice!! I should have stuck with my last method! LOL!

You should not keep the mealworms in the calcium dish...when the eat they worms they will be eating large amounts of the calcium and vitamin D3 (assuming your calcium has D3 with it). D3 is toxic in large amounts!

Along with the mealies eating tons of the stuff (which apparently they like alot), the leos will take calcium/vit powder in by the mouthfuls which will make the problem even worse. I dust my mealies with Reptivite, but most of it comes off of them and leave the powder in the food bowl.

I looked again and seems like they'll chow down on the reptivite, and it makes em dry, so they'll chow down on the carrot afterwards. Dunno, we'll see my leo gets a sudden growth spurt.

-Lemur 6

I don't keep them in the calcium dish...I used to put a little calcium in the food dish with them, which "dusts" them. That's bad?