I used to feed my leos mealies, I have my own culture, but picking out a thousand beetles once a month is a tidious (sp?)job. So, I started a superworm colony, thinking that the beetles involved are much larger and easier to pick. I started with 40 beetles, and wow, the baby worms grow so fast!! I could already see the baby worms in less than a month, whilst it takes almost 2 months for me to be able to see the baby mealworms.
At first, I offered the supers the same size as mealies; most of my leos just smelt it and walked away, one of my juvenille snatched one, but quickly discovered that what he has in his mouth is not a mealworm, so he just hold on to the super in his mouth and took him 10 secs to decide whether to swallow it or spit it out. He eventually swallowed it, but refuses to eat anymore of those (he used to eat 30 mealies per feeding). His face was really funny when he's thinking hard.
Then, I tried mixing mealworms and supers in a dish, and I discovered that as long as the number of mealworms exceeds the number of supers, they don't mind eating it!! I'm now feeding them at a ratio of 6 supers : 9 mealies; and they're eating fine.
The problem now is that the supers are growing real fast, I now have hundreds and thousands of supers of assorted size, but I ran out of mealies!! It seems to take forever for mealies to grow...
