Meal size(leopard geckos)?

[reptilez]

How many meal worms do you think an adult female leopard gecko could eat in one serving. If it matters, she's 2yrs old (May be producing eggs), and about 7-8inches in length.
-Reptilez

[Tim and Julie B]

Mine can usually eat 10-20 each. But mine are little piggies! LOL I also like supers(kings), 5-10 usually does it for them.

[Blazin]

Let her have as many as she can take if she is gravid. I use the self-serve method. Lots of mealies in a glass ashtray free for the takin!

[Samba]

LOL Blazin, I agree with and follow that method as well!

[Smitty]

I too just let them pig out.

[Emily-Fisher]

I often have up to fourty mealworms in my leo's dishes and let them eat what they want. They usually stop eating at about 15-20.

[Colonel SB]

I put in 50 and leave them to serve themselves.

[reptilez]

what kind of a dish do you keep that many in(how deep)? dont the just crawl out and bury themselves?

[LISA127]

if it helps at all, i use those terra cotta saucers for the bottom of the terra cotta plant pots. u know, the glazed ones. i just buy the smallest ones they have. since they are smooth the mealies can't climb out, and the sides are just high enough, too.

[damzookeeper]

I also use the terra cotta until my leos get used to eating them out of the dish, since they escape too easily from them when you add too much I then advance to the white finger bowls.

They're great for water too.


here's the smaller ones.


Terra cottas are great for calcium as well and water for hatchlings so it isn't too deap.

[reptilez]

thanx for all the help

[Dragon_Slave]

Hey Deb, I have the same white bowls, hehe.

[damzookeeper]

Originally posted by Dragon_Slave
Hey Deb, I have the same white bowls, hehe.

They work great and they're fairly cheap.

[Bartman]

I give mine a bunch of meal worms until she looks full and whatever is left i put back in my cage for the mealies.