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Whats your best method of scooping them out of the bedding? I feed both mealworms and crix but am thinking about moving towards mealworms exclusively. The only thing I hate is having to fish them out, I guess I have to devise a scooper or something. What do you guys do? Thanks!
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-Sal

3.8 Total Leopard Geckos (Listed below)
1.0 Hypo Golden Jungle
1.0 Super Hypo Carrot Tail Baldy
0.2 High Yellows
0.1 Normal
0.1 Patternless
1.0 Patternless het Rainwater Albino
0.3 Rainwater Albino het Patternless
0.1 Patternless Albino (Rainwater)
2 Eggs currently incubating!

1.0 Ball Python

i pick out every single one LOL and it takes time... i generally spend one evening "pulling" mealies to feed my geckos (a couple of hundred at a time durring the "busy" season) ... well the husband and i switch off... "pulling" mealies is the only bad thing i have found.. well other than those gross alliens *yuck*.... least they arent as big as superworm alliens
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-robin struck
Geckoheads And Geeks

They work great, and if you're not too good at using them it'll give you good practice (haha, trying to catch food that actually runs from you).

-Lemur 6

I go through a lot of mealworms, anywhere between 500 and 1,00 a day depending on the season. There's no way I'd have a life if I had to pick them out one by one! Several years ago I started using my son's sand strainer. He got it with a plastic bucket, shovel and a sandcastle mold. The nice thing is it fits over a 9.75" deli cup. I just sift out the food then pour it back in the sweaterbox then put the mealies back in the deli cup. I only have to pick out the few dead ones with chopsticks. If there are getting to be too many dead ones, then the blue tongue gets a feast and I get another 10K.
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Rick-Geckoland USA

Yea I was thinking along the lines of using some type of strainer of some sort. They sell a sand sifter (made my zoo-med I think) at some petshops but I dont think the bran/bedding is small enough to go through its screen. I was thinking of maybe using a cat liter scooper or something. I guess I'll have to find a sand castle kit, give it to my son (2yrs old), but keep the sifter for myself lol. Or I may come home and find him sifting through the mealworms for me!! eek.
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-Sal

3.8 Total Leopard Geckos (Listed below)
1.0 Hypo Golden Jungle
1.0 Super Hypo Carrot Tail Baldy
0.2 High Yellows
0.1 Normal
0.1 Patternless
1.0 Patternless het Rainwater Albino
0.3 Rainwater Albino het Patternless
0.1 Patternless Albino (Rainwater)
2 Eggs currently incubating!

1.0 Ball Python

>>Yea I was thinking along the lines of using some type of strainer of some sort. They sell a sand sifter (made my zoo-med I think) at some petshops but I dont think the bran/bedding is small enough to go through its screen. I was thinking of maybe using a cat liter scooper or something. I guess I'll have to find a sand castle kit, give it to my son (2yrs old), but keep the sifter for myself lol. Or I may come home and find him sifting through the mealworms for me!! eek.
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>>-Sal
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>>3.8 Total Leopard Geckos (Listed below)
>>1.0 Hypo Golden Jungle
>>1.0 Super Hypo Carrot Tail Baldy
>>0.2 High Yellows
>>0.1 Normal
>>0.1 Patternless
>>1.0 Patternless het Rainwater Albino
>>0.3 Rainwater Albino het Patternless
>>0.1 Patternless Albino (Rainwater)
>>2 Eggs currently incubating!
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>>1.0 Ball Python
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Rick-Geckoland USA

put a slice of potato in there for about 15 mins then pick it out and shake it off in a dish.
I used to pick through them too, but this is sooo easy. You can pick out 100 at a time easily with a small piece of potato

if you need to pick out more than that at a time, more slices will do the trick
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4.4 Leopard Geckos
1.0 Marbled Gecko
1.1 Red Eared Sliders
0.2 Siamese Mice

It works very well!

since I only have one gecko, I use tweezers.. I have a pair that has a decent sized tweezing end, so it gets a grip on them. Also, at a pet store they have these mini pooper scoopers, that they sell for geckos or hamsters... So they would probly work great too..

It depends for me. Sometimes i'll use a small hand sifter i picked up at the dollar store, other times i'll use tweezers to pick them out one at a time. Other times i just grab them with my fingers.

The problem i find with the sifter is that the holes aren't big enough for the bedding so the toy one sounds perfect...i'll have to keep an eye out for one I also really like the potato idea.

Red
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Crested Gecko Zeek:1.0
LEOS: Boo: 1.0 normal , Bronx & Nala: 1.1 blizzard,
Lily: 0.1 patternless, Abby: 0.1 albino, Zoe: 0.1 reduced pattern, Dot: 0.1 hypo
Chip: 1.0 papillion (small dog)

That's what I do.. I have 3 adult leos, and I just pick the mealies up out of the bedding for them.. they don't bite or anything.

I just scoop out the mealies from the bin they are in, and put them in the feeding dish with the ground oats. Its not bad for the leos. And i find it very easy.