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Well I've started feeding my 3 leos mostly mealworms. I usually put a bunch in there, in this one dish that the worms can kind of crawl out of. I figured this wouldn't be a problem, because most of them stay in there, and it would be good because if they were escaping the leos would see them easier. Well i moved the water bowl today and found like 15 mealworms behind it, so obviously a lot had escaped since yesterday! I'm having trouble because if i put them in a dish that they can't get out of, my leos will never see them. Also, i'm not sure if my leos are seeing them when they're in the dish, or what. How do you guys go about feeding your geckos mealworms?
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1.2.0 Leopard Geckos
0.1.0 Miniature long-haired dachsund

i cute the bottoms of clear deli cups to about an inch high, i use "non" clear also and my leos still find them, if the mealies are in there..the leos ill find them soon enough, it took 1 or 2 of my normals to figure out there was a dish of mealies in there,
also, i have come to a theory(LOL) on how many mealies to put in a dish..its only my opinion..so...lol

well, I think that when there are to many worms in there the leos get confused because all they see is a big moving "circle", my leos look at the,,,but never eat any when there are more than 10 in a dish, what you could do is..try putting 5 well gutloaded ,malies in a dish and see what happens, if they eat, then put 5 more in, they'll eat how ever many as they want, the most one of my adult albinos ever ate was 30..im sures e could've eaten more but i didnt want her to end up regurgitating all of them

Dan