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hey i'm new to the forum but i previously raised a leopard gecko from a young hatchling to adult w/o any problems b/4 giving her away when i went to college. I've since purchased a pretty and very young tangerine albino at a reptile show,and shortly after my girlfriend purchased a regular albino from a chain store.Right now both are housed in the same tank,a 20L, but she will be taking hers when she has her tank set up, and in about a week i will be taking mine to a summer camp in winsconsin for the physically handicapped.Anyways enough backstory hers has finally started eating mealworms after about 3 days in the tank,is eating very well for a first meal.But mine seems completely uninterested in mealworms at all, even though he apears very healthy and has licked and sniffed a few.I am not really worried at this point since it has only been about 5 days,but i think maybe he is used to eating crickets-anyhoo i would like him to get a few meals under his belt b4 i have to transport him and redo the entire adjustment process again.Any advice on this situation would be helpful-i would like to get them both on mealworms because they are much easier to keep and feed as a staple in my opinion,but i can start mine on crickets and switch to mealies.Any advice on this? anyhoo thanks for your help i can figure this out myself i'm sure but any assistance would be welcome thank you.

Niether of my leo's like meal worms... unless you trick them (only our female falls for this) We hand feed our leos because we like to make sure that they both get equal amounts and we found with the female that if you give her a cricket and then a worm she will take the worm just so she can have another cricket.. maybe if you try holding the worm and let it dangle in front of your leo, that might get his attention.

Since you got them from completely different places, you need to separate them immediately. If one has parasites or is sick for any reason, it'll infect the other.

After you've separated them, give him a couple of days to adjust to the change, and then try feeding him again. If he won't eat mealworms, go to the petstore and by a dozen crickets - if he eats them, you can buy more, but, if he doesn't, you're not overpowered by crickets.

I had a male who refused to eat mealworms - he LOVED crickets, though. Well, once I ran out of crickets, I tried giving him mealworms again, and boy did he gobble those down REAL fast. I guess he needed the crickets to stimulate his interest, but now he has no problem with mealies.

But - Remember - Separate them Immediately, Please. They both need to be quarantined. And, since you got them from different places, yes, that means quarantining them from each other.

~~Dusty Windom
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So Many Alleles, So Little Time...!
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~~The Gecko Barn~~

Yes you do need to quarintining but I disagree that you only quarentine geckos from different places, in general you quarentine all new geckos not merely ones from different places

>Yes you do need to quarintining but I disagree that you only
>quarentine geckos from different places, in general you
>quarentine all new geckos not merely ones from different places

I never said you shouldn't. Simply that, since these 2 are from different places (which is the case in this specific thread, so, therefore, the case on which I was focusing), they need to be quarantined separately. And, yes, all leos should be quarantined separately, no matter where they came from.

~~Dusty Windom
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So Many Alleles, So Little Time...!
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~~The Gecko Barn~~

Also try mashing the heads of the mealies, cuz my older gecko has learned to eat food that doesn't move including criz but the little one needs it to move inorder to see it and eat them.

Like someone else said, try dangling them. They enjoy the movement of their prey and every single bloody gecko is different