Re: [gecko]My beautiful leo and a question

Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:02:06 -0700

Hi Diane,

Diane wrote:
First, I want to thank all of you who helped me when I was researching the purchase of my gecko and after I bought her. Thanks to your good advice, she's thriving, and here are a couple photos of her to show you. Her name is Na'Toth.
That's a cool name and she looks fine from the photos.  

Now for the question: I went to the local pet store, where I bought Na'Toth -- and have been buying her mealworms and crickets since I bought her -- to buy some more mealworms. The guy that got them for me (obviously a different one than I'd been dealing with) proceeds to tell me that I should *never* feed mealworms to leopard geckos because they can eat a hole right through her when they're in her stomach. He claims to have "lost a $200 gecko that way." I know there are some who advise against mealworms (and there are others who feed only mealworms -- we went over all that before) but I never heard of a gecko being eaten by a mealworm from the inside out! Is this even possible? This guy says he breeds leos, so he should know what he's talking about,



LOL!



  
 but that seems a bit extreme to me.



Good instinct.



  
  He also claims that "almost all of the websites" caution against mealworms for that reason now. I can't find any of those, myself! 
  



I'll bet he also has some beautiful real estate (swampland) in Florida he'll
sell ya for cheap!;0  



  
I bought the mealworms anyway (Na'Toth so far doesn't appear to be any the worse for having eaten quite a few mealworms in the past three months), but I'm not going back there for anything else. 



Good idea. Pet shops are a crap shoot as far as quality of gex and advice
as you found out. The fact that this fellow was perpetuating an old wives
tail with the mealworms says a lot about how they do business there. The
only place you hear about the mealworms and off with their heads line is
in pet shops that know little about gex and their care. What happens is they
get some 1/2 alive geckos, usually wild caughts, some die in the terrarium
and, of course, if you sit still long enough bugs will eat you. Even if you
are a $200 gecko. ;)



There's nothing wrong with feeding healthy gex mealworms. If they are unhealthy,
the skins of the mealworms may be hard to digest and that can be a problem.
I try to feed only the soft mealworms that have just shed so the gex can
digest easily.



Julie Bergman

http://www.geckoranch.com

GGA lifetime member



 



  

Thanks again,

Matilda
(formerly known as Diane, along with several million other women)

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