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What do you mean by a full portion? If you mean as many as you expect it to eat at one sitting, then yes. You have to replace them at the next feeding with more recently gutloaded ones. Besides, leos prefer fresher (wigglier) mealworms.
So I guess my answer is, you can put a days worth in the bowl at one time.
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When I buy them I get them in this little tub that is about the diameter of a quarter and maybe an inch high. I usually toss them into the bowl in my leo's tree stump hide along with some calcium.

You really should be gutloading them first...this way, they will grow and be nice and healthy for your leos. Calcium powder is fine for dusting, but in my opinion, cannot replace gutloading. I put 10 mealies in my leos' dishes every other night.

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1:1 leos (6 eggs cooking)

What do you gutload with? Please describe the whole process. Thanks in advance. BTW, I'm trying to beef up my female, she became quite skinny producing her last clutch.. Should I load her on wax worms or just feed her gutloaded cricksmealies?

You can fatten her with some extra waxworms but I wouldn't just do that. It's better to feed her with good gutloaded crix and mealies. I gutload my mealies with either a piece of carrot or potato or even yams. If you use any commercial dry cricket food you can feed them that as well.

Commercial cricket food is a rip off. It's just chicken scratch that you can buy for $5/20 lbs. It costs more than that for a 2 lb. Gutload can. I use starter mash to gutload mine. It's better because it's ground fine enough for crickets to eat. They never seemed to eat the whole dried kernals of corn in the Gutload can anyways. : )