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I have some pumpkin pieces leftover from carving pumpkins on holloween. I have been using it as a way for my mealies to get moisture. Good or bad gutload idea?

its good source of beta carotine and my mealies seem to like squash a lot.
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1.0 Pastel/Jungle Leopard gecko from JL (BJ)
1.0 Hypo from Crested (Apricot)
1.0 Albino Hypo? (Cloud)
0.4 Normal/Hi-Yellow Leopard gecko (Beatrice, Goldie, Freckles, Pepper)
0.1 SHCT Leopard Gecko (Brite)
0.1 TBD Leopard Gecko (Rainbow)
0.0.2 Corn Snakes (One snow, One red albino)

How do you keep your mealies anyway? I keep crickets in a separate mini cage with toliet paper tube, water soaked cotton and various food. Mealies I usually keep in my refirgerator in the little dish they come in. From what i've heard the meal in there works as gutload but they don't eat much anyway because they are in the fridge and essionally hybernating.
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~Akira
1.0 African Fat-tailed Gecko
0.0.1 Leopard Gecko (hypo tangrine circle-back?)
0.0.2 Red Ear Slider

When I keep them in the fridge i leave carrot in the box for them to munch on and keep them on the top (warmer) shelf.

I take about 20-40 (small) mealies out 24-48 hours before I plan on feeding them to my geckos. I'll put these mealies in a container with esu reptile gutload along with carrot.

They will go into hybernation in the fridge but that just slows their growth. if you keep them on the top shelf they'll move around and eat and stay semi-active, more so than if you were to store them in the bottom shelf

the door of a person's fridge is the warmest area in a refigerator and probably the best place to keep them.