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I used to post on this forum a long time ago, but I have not had any problems since. My leo is 6 years old and its been a long time since I've dealt with a baby. I agreed to watch my friend's baby for the summer while he's away. The baby is about 4 and 1/4 inches. He has been feeding him mealworms, because he doesn't like crickets that much. I am nervous about impaction, but I have been feeding him mealworms anyways. I have been picking out the smallest mealworms and the whiter ones to feed him. I just saw him shaking his head side to side and he threw up a piece of a meal worm. I don't know if I should continue feeding mealworms, or switch to crickets. Or should I just limit the amout of mealworms. Any help would be appreciated, I want to return him to my friend without any problems. Thankyou
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3 dogs,1 cat,2 rats and 1 leopard gecko ...**TARZANA**

I've read on this forum that when they throw up partially digested food, its meant that they've just eaten too much.
And that they'll learn not to eat so much

good luck

I too have seen this and it seems in cases to be that the gecko ate too much too fast.
Is the gecko pooping?
I feed mostly mealworms and now superworms to all of my geckos only offering crickets once or maybe twice a week. I can't always offer the nice juicy white mealworms since there never seems to be enought so they all get an assortment. I keep my adults on playsand and juvis on papertowel and in 6 years I have never had a gecko die or have ever thought one may be impacted. I would just be sure to give the gecko the worms each day even leaving a bowl which the worms can not escape in the tank with him. This way he can eat when it wants to.
Good luck, I bet he'll be fine.
Joyce

Thankyou very much for all of the reassurance. I was pretty stressed out today. My bearded dragon just arrived, and after that I checked my other tanks to find my baby leo throwing up. When I got the baby he was on sand, but I switched him to paper towl. I'm going to get some new mealworms tomorrow and I'll feed the small or white ones to the baby, and the rest to my adult. Again thankyou for your advice and quick responses.
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3 dogs,1 cat,2 rats and 1 leopard gecko ...**TARZANA**