How many mealworms should i feed my gecko




















Thanks for your reply! I'd heard most people use a window of eating until they are full every few days, was just wondering how many mealies I'd be ordering on a regular basis - I was expecting a lot more to be honest!

Do you offer them any other insects as well? User Tag List. Site Menu. Forum Blog Articles Gallery Classifieds. New Threads. Day Gecko Like us on FB. Some insects, like fireflies or other luminescent insects are toxic to leopard geckos, and should net be offered to your gecko under any circumstances. Gut loading is the process of feeding your crickets, mealworms, etc.

If your insects are not well fed, they will be a poor source of nutrition for your pet. Ultimately, what your feeder bugs eat wind up in your gecko. I usually feed my insects vegetable scraps such as carrot peelings, potato slices, pieces of apple, etc. Personally, I breed my own mealworms, and keep them fed at all times. General rule of thumb is to Feed your Feeders before offering them to your pet. If you keep a dish with live mealworms in the enclosure, it may be a good idea to keep a small piece of carrot or apple in the dish so the worms are well fed when you leopard gecko eats them.

Even if you do a great job of gut loading your feeder insects, your leopard gecko still may not be getting all of the nutrients it needs. You can buy supplements to provide vitamins your gecko may not get enough of in its normal diet.

Calcium is important to young geckos as they grow to avoid Metabolic Bone Disease MBD and to breeding females for egg production. Leopard geckos typically do not bask in sunlight like many reptiles, and may not get enough vitamin D3. Be careful over supplementing with vitamin D3. D3 is fat soluble, which means it can be stored in your leopard geckos body.

Too much will cause the vitamin to build up. Your gecko should not be getting D3 all the time. Some leopard gecko owners will keep a small dish of calcium powder in the enclosure so the leopard gecko can lick the powder at its leisure. Sprinkling some supplement dust on a rock is another option.

Another way of delivering supplements to your leopard gecko is through dusting the food that it eats. This is how most reptile owners give their pets supplements. Most lizard owners will place a small amount of the powder in a plastic bag or container, place the insect inside, and lightly shake until the insect has a thin coating of the powder. You could also try a cricket shaker if you want something specially designed for this purpose. If left too long, the supplement powder will rub off.

Crickets may be the easiest insect to dust, though you may try you luck with others. Mealworms are general too smooth for much of the dust to stick. Some folks just reach in and grab a few mealworms to toss into a feeding dish. Crickets and dubia roaches may be a bit more of a challenge to wrangle. No problem. Just use tweezers. They extend your reach and make it easier to pick up insects that are hard to pick up.

Aquarium tweezers are great for this purpose. For instance, when your gecko is young, it will be growing rapidly and need ample energy to do so. As your gecko ages, it will not need food as often. You can use the following as a quick guide for feeding and supplements:. When is the best time of day to feed your leopard gecko? Leopard geckos are crepuscular, which means they are most active during the twilight hours around dusk and dawn. As a result, early evening or early mornings are when they would typically hunt and feed naturally.

Dusk or dawn would be a preferable time to feed your leopard gecko. Yes, like most animals, your leopard gecko does need water. You should have water available at all times. The bowl should be shallow enough for your gecko to easily get to the water, but not so deep as to present a risk of drowning. The main and only reason live food is recommended for leopard geckos is simply for the fact that they love the thrill of catching their prey or watching them wiggle and crawl.

When feeder insects move, it makes the bugs that much more attractive to them and will ensure that they will eat whenever fed almost Besides, I love watching my gecko hunt for his food whenever I put it in his tank.

Hunting for their prey is what they do in the wild so it only makes sense that this is what they enjoy doing in captivity as well. Some of which you may have never heard of.

I actually recommend it. But for those who like to give their leopard gecko a change in diet every once in a while, I always suggest trying different feeders from time to time. With that said, take a look at this article that I wrote here on the MANY different options that are available to you when it comes to feeders. Although they are very nutritional alongside another feeder such as mealworms, they are quite the nuisance.

You never know what your gecko might like. Especially crickets. But because crickets are go-to feeders for a lot of different people, it can be hard to exclude them from their diet. Luckily, though, there is an insect in particular that some owners prefer over crickets and these insects are called Dubia Roaches.

You may have heard of them before, but because crickets and mealworms are the two main recommendations when it comes to leopard gecko food, it might not have been something that you thought of considering.

The nutritional value of these amazing little critters can differ depending on the size, but to give you an idea of what their nutritional value is compared to crickets, check out the chart below from the information found on this source.

So in that case, Dubia Roaches are definitely the best alternative. I personally get the larger ones because my leopard gecko is fully grown, but to make it more simple, I decided just to link to the page that gives you more options to choose from.



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