How do you feed your leos?

[Dark_Angel_x322]

Ok i am curious... how much and of what does everyone feed their leos?

Each of my leos get: 5+ small crix, 8 mealies, and once in a while 2 wax worms each, all dusted and gutloaded of course.

[Neo]

i got juvies. i used to always leave a dish of mealies for them to eat but half of em started rejecting mealies and it just got expenive seeing as most of the mealies were dead in the container. i feed them crix now i usually watch them eat and feed em one at a time till they stop.

[Rebecca]

I breed my own mealies so I just leave them in a dish at night and then take them out in the morn. Unless they are acting hungry then I leave the dish in there all day.

[reptilez]

I feed my adult female, 1 dozen every 2 days, once a week ill bring home mealies and once every 2 months she gets a pinkie mouce.

[Neo]

just how much fat content is in a butter worm like compared to a pinkie or a wax so i know how sparingly to use them

[bob_thesnowman]

just be carefull with butterworms i fed them to my beardie,and the next day she was on her back having seizsures,she nearly died from it,i took her to the vet and got her a fluid injection,and since the she appears to have made a complete recovery,she is a bit small though,all my other reptiles were fine,but they wouldn't eat for about 4 or 5 days after feeding them butter worms,so make sure to feed sparingly!!!

[Neo]

ahh that's pretty darn scary! was the seizsure due to something in the butterworm? neone else used butters before? i havent heard much about these worms.. i just saw them at herpfood.com and decided to order

[Amiechann]

I feed a dozen mealies every other day, or for the larger ones, I might give 2-3 super mealies every other day. I'll throw in about 4-5 crickets in to vary their diet a little once a week. My breeding females during breeding season get a pinky mouse on Mondays, then every other day after that they get 2-3 supers.

[Zoe]

Mine each get as many mealies as they want in a dish, and I also feed them 5 or so large crickets a day. They get waxies or silkies for treats sometimes, too.

Zoe

[drewlowe]

this is for my colony of 5. Mine mostly eat mealies from a dish. Once a week i will throw 2 dozen crix in there. and as treats they will get silkies and butterworms and waxworms(once or twice a month for silkies and butter, once a month at most for waxworms). They get pinkies once a month during breeding.

They used to eat primarly crix. But then they all started to slowly stop eating so i switched to mostly mealies.

Same type of feeding goes for my male thats all alone but proportions acceptable for him.

I feed butterworms to my leos and to my beardies with no problems at all. My female beardie goes nuts for them.

Bob did the vet say what caused the seizoures. Was it the butterworms or something else??? Or could the vet not say where they came from.

[peregrinefalcon]

I feed mine every 2 to 3 days with crickets, mealworms and superworms. I put one at a time in front of her with tweezers, untill she starts to not go after them as fast. I even feed her out of her cage sometimes. She also gets pinkies and fuzzies as random treats, I barly ever feed her waxworms.
Adam

[Colonel SB]

Well thier staple is crickets but they also get meal worms (large & small) So 3 out of 5 days they get crickets then the other two is meal worms. The breeders pinky mice after laying or to fatten them up for the season.

[Neo]

ok well i got the worms from the mail today and i put a butter in front of them, they licked it and turned their heads really fast. i put a wax in front of one of em and she licked it, thought for a while and ate it. so far none of my other leos are brave enough to eat ne.. eh 74 worms sitting in my fridge now

[Linds]

I feed them as many superworms daily or several times weekly (sometimes I feed daily, but sometimes I skip a day here or there in the week if I'm not home to feed). Maybe once or twice a month, or if I run out of supers (I only buy them at the shows) I offer them mealies. For a week or two after each show they get silkworms. Very occassionally I may pick up crickets or waxworms. I dust maybe once or twice a month just in case they aren't using the bowl enough, I just leave a dish with calcium/d3 in their cage for them to use.