Setting up

Thats why I mix up their diet a little with Crickets, Silkworms, and Supers. Veriety is good. It would be like us eating the same thing every single day. It wouldn't be healthy. So to provide different nutrients in their diet they also get variety.

I am also not breeding leos though, I only have two so I can't say how it would affect reproduction and feeding many generations ecxlusively mealworms. Of course it wouldn't be healthy for the animals.

Oh and with crickets, If you are only feeding one or two geckos I would just buy in bulk online. I have read that they are kind of a pain to breed. They are pretty cheap to buy in bulk.

For housing them i use a sterilite container (the deep ones) with a big hole cut into the top and glue some screen over the hole so they can't escape. Then I use the egg cartons or papertowel rolls so they can hide. I didn't use a substrate for them, I found it harder to clean. I kept gutlaod in a large dish and apples or potato slices for moisture. You can also use carrots.

Where to do you keep the crickets? I've heard that they smell pretty bad. Could I keep them in my basement and put one of those zoo med red bulbs over the tank to keep them warm? Basically I'd just like to know what temperature you keep them at/where you keep them.

How many crickets do you feed your gecko? 3 or 4 times a week and how many crickets at each feeding. I have an extra 10 gallon tank laying around and wonder how many crickets I can keep in there.

The other guy who posted said that he's been raising his geckos exclusively on mealworms with just a few crickets a month, I'm not sure how healthy that is..

I usually keep the crickets up high like on top of a shelf or something where its warm but you can't really smell them.

As long as it doesn't get too cold in your basement I don't see a problem with that.

Not sure how many you could keep in a ten gallon.

I feed mealies Monday through Friday then on weekends they get crickets or some other feeder. They seem more interested in other feeders when they get them once a week vs. several times a week. My geckos eat every other day though because they are adults.

When feeding them, I will drop a few in and wait a few minutes until they have scarfed them all down. Then Drop a few more in. A good rule of thumb is to feed them as many as they will eat in 20 to 30 minutes or until they just walk away. Same goes with other feeder insects.

I am not sure how feeding them on only mealies their whole lives would affect them. I have heard of people doing this will no ill affects but they have also only been keeping them for upto a year or two. Like that article you posted stated that most of the people who do this haven't kept them on mealies for 10 to 20 years.

Theres an article on keeping crickets and breeding them. I will find it and post it for ya.
Kristy

Here you go,

http://www.nyworms.com/ccare.htm