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What is the best advice for coating mealworms in calcium? It seems to me that dusting them doesn't work very well and that the calcium doesn't stick?

Does anyone use the liquid stuff instead?

I knwo what you mean!!! sooo, i put mine ina bowl with calcium in the bowl, so when my leos eat teh mealworms they take a mouth full of calcium too

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sounds a little unconventional i guess but it may work... lightly mist them with a spray bottlwe thne poweder them? may help it stick better

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Yeah, that is what I do as well. My leos are clumsy and so usually do eat some.

The thing is, the younger ones seem to prefer to have them wriggling about on the floor rather than in a bowl and I want to make sure the young'uns get enough!

ok yea, well with my younger eones, i dont coat them, no point doesnt stick, but i havea shllow dish of calcium in there when they need/want it they lick it,

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one method you could use is spray the mealies with some water then dust them... not only are the lizards getting calcium but they get water as well

If you put the mealworms into the bowl you use for the viv, and then put the calcium powder on top, and mix it all around a little, it usually does the trick. (well, it does for me anyway!)

Then, when you feed the babies, just take the mealies from this bowl to plonk in front of them, and they should already have a pretty good coating on them because they've been covered in it, and they've been wriggling around in it for a while. Some calcium will always come off, but you should still have a pretty decent amount on there.

I tried the misting with water, but just got a very sticky mess and half dead mealies which the leos weren't interested in!

Good luck!

thats what i do

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I have noticed that calypso brand pure calcium covers and sticks to mealies a lot easier using the normal shake in a bag [or roll in a bowl or whatnot] than other brand sI have used...lately ive had calypso and it sticks to them whereas before I used others and I had to resort to wetting them a bit [which usually makes a horrid mess lol] or dunking them in the tub of powder just before they get eaten.
Ofcourse the other ideas all work too.

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I put my calcium in a pepper pot shaker and put some in a shallow dish and then just sprinkle them and put the dish in George's viv - it works a treat