[davew]

Hi,

I have just start feeding my leopard geckos on mealworms and they love them. And that got me wondering.
I know that in the past, before a large cricket suppliers, that meal worms where the staple diet of many reptiles. And I as so know that mealworms are high in chitin.
But, the question is, how many people use mealworms as leos staple diet and how many use crickets?

 

[Neonius]

its ok to feed leos mealworms as a secondary diet, but not a stable, they are too fatty and high in chittin, crickets are much healthier for them

 

[scarlettvegetable]

I prefer to feed a varied livefood diet to everything insect eating. :lol:

 

[Neonius]

yeh scarletts right there, its better to have a varied diet in general

 

[tombraider]

I have trouble getting anything to eat meal worms but they love their morio. They have crickets for the main food supply.

 

[davew]

I have been feeding crics and choose mealworm as the start to a varied diet. I plan to get some waxworm next time a get their food. I just throught I would ask because mealworms are a lot easyer to feed than the crics. :lol:

Sorry, morio?

 

[tombraider]

morio worms. those big black and cream stripey ones.

 

[davew]

I can't say I've seen them. Can order them over the net?

 

[Neonius]

yeh, also known as super worms, tend to be fed to older or medium sized reps

 

[mike515]

i use cricks as the manin diet, supplemented with mealworms. occasionally small hoppers as well for a bit of variety

 

[davew]

My leos are only 3 to 4 months old, so I would think they are to small for super worms?

 

[Neonius]

yeh they would be, wouldn't try morios until they are adult, or much bigger

 

[purejurrasic]

Hi all

mealies are ok, but I wouldnt use them as a staple feed for the reasons above.

However, as an intro to a new food stuff they are fine.

How about maybe using them 2 times a week, crix 4 times and the other day altenate with hoppers, size 3 should be ok for your geckos, and waxies. Waxies are great for fatting up, but can become adictive !!

Of course, whatever you feed, they will need the supplements !

 

[Kerry1]

I feed crickets or locusts as staple diet and have a dish of mealworm in my geckos' vivs.

I picked up 5 baby albino giants on Thursday last week. The youngest two are supposed to be three months old but they only weigh 11g and they are not much bigger than hatchlings! :? ! have a 6 week old hatchling that eats crickets and locusts and she is bigger than these two! Therefore, personally I don't agree with feeding geckos a mealworm only diet. But obviously, each to their own.

 

[markhill]

I use crickets as a main food but occasionally feed meal worms (about every 5-6 weeks) I also feed locusts if I get a small one in the batch for my spider.
1.0 Royal Python
1.0 Common Boa
0.1 Cornsnake
1.0 Beardy
0.1 Chilean Rose Tarantula.

 

[timmyjones]

I'd choose crickets over mealworms but still feed both my leos and beardies mealworms for variation so kinda both but more crickets

 

[nicky]

yeh mealies are definately no good as a staple diet, a varied diet is always best, i feed a mixture of locusts, black cricks, silk worms and just got some pheonix worms (she loves them) and occasionally waxies...her favs are locusts (i do tend to pull off back legs so she can catch them)...