hey there,
i am pretty new to keeping leos, i have 3 babies all of which i keep on kitchen paper. I dont especially trust sand but that is my personal oppinion, i find kitchen paper so easy and its cheap. I tend to change the toliet area once a day and the rest of the enclosure 1-2 times a week. I do have a heat lamp in one of my leos tanks, but i do not use it anymore, i just keep the heat mat on and they are happy with this. I tend to put my thermastate just above the floor, others may do this different, but i like to keep it as close to the heat matt as possible so they dont get burned by it etc.. i also have thermonitors in both ends of the tank. I also have wet hides these are the exo terra hides with damp moss in and also cool and hot hides. My geckos wont eat meal worms for some reason, i dont know if this is because i was scared of feeding them to them for a while. I heared all sorts of storys about mealworms being able to eat out of leos if they were not eaten properly,wether this has happened i really dont know :? but i have been trying to feed them mealies for a while but they wont have any of it!! The smaller 2 eat about 5-8 small crickets a day, the older one about 10 a day. I also give them 1 wax worm a day as a treat after they have eaten there crickets. If you are planning on using mealworms i would put them in a small plastic dish that the geckos can see into, but the mealies cant get out, But as everyone has said crickets seem to be good source of food, i keep my crickets in a cricket keeper can find them from most reptile stores, and buy around 2 packs a week (bear in mind i have 3) i mix black and brown crickets for a bit of variety. I dont tend to find them nosiey, just make sure that they dont get damp, from no ventilation in the cricket keeper, as they will die. this has happened to me a few times, waste of money and a pain! I gut load mine with things like weetabix,oats certain cereal that contains no sugar, also feed veg and fruit. I tend to put a slice of orange in as it is a good source of vitamin c and it allows the crickets to take a drink without drowning. I really think its all common sense, feed the crickets good food as this allows your gecko to get all the vitamins and goodness it needs. When it comes to calcium dust i use calypso and dust my crickets or wax worms before i feed and i always leave a dish of it in the viv , i always use a vitamin suppliment once a week (cant think of the name right now sorry) but there is many out there to choose from. Hope this has helped, when i get the chance i will take a pic of my set up and post it.
Byeeeee:razz: