Hello everyone. This is the first time on this particular forum. Most of my experience has been with corn snakes. I just recently adopted a leo from my aunt. She is eating well.
Ok my question is this. I have been doing research for a while on feeder insects for leos. Good lord it's all different. One says only crickets. Another says they feed there leos only mealworms and they do great.(From a breeders site) I've heard that mealworms can be hard to digest because of the chitin.
My adopted geckos has greedily eaten both crickets and mealworms. I also plan on supplementing with field insects
later in the summer.(Clean unsprayed field nearby 
)
And to tell you the truth I would prefer to deal with mealworms. Thanks for reading.
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Question about Mealworms as stapel diet?....
mmfrankford
Apr 12, 2004 12:16 PM
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mmfrankford
Apr 12, 2004 12:18 PM
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CoolGecko
Apr 12, 2004 01:22 PM
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Sypha
Apr 12, 2004 01:58 PM
Stale bread and water anyone? Just kidding.
Actually, as long as you gut load your meal worms, and dust with calcium, they can be a staple diet for most any reptile. Just make sure you are feeding nutritious ingredients to your mealworms.
mmfrankford
Apr 12, 2004 02:16 PM
OK that is what I was hoping to hear. I have the mealworms in a substrate of Flukers Cricket Feed(High Calcium Version) with fresh potato for moisture. I did notice a few of the worms are in the pupae stage. Oh and one thing I do like about this leo, if ti moves she'll munch it. Know if my corn snake would be like that.
