baby or adult gecko ??

[Brandon.O]

and also,

is there any way to breed or "grow" your own mealworms ??

[Shaun J]

their are gut load bottles at petstores.you just feed them to your crix

[Brandon.O]

im not goin to be feeding crix, i was talking about gut loading mealies not crickets.

[SatanicIntention]

I feed my mealies whole wheat bread and oatmeal. They shed tons eating that stuff and they are nice and fat when I feed them off. The waxies eat the same stuff, but I give them a piece of carrot every so often too.

[ffighterstu]

I'm not sure about the mealworms, but I did have a little food in there for the crickets. I don't remember what I used though, it was about 10 years ago so I'm sure that the stuff out there has changed. I didn't use a heat pad for mine either. I had a full spectrum UV bulb on during the day with a spot light shining over a flat rock for a basking area and then had a red heatlight on at night for them.

[Brandon.O]

ok, whole wheat bread and oatmeal, thats easy enough

now about the red light.Is it absolutely needed ?? If it is ill definitly get it but ittl be a pain since it will be kept in my room.

I think ill just buy the bulb itself becuase i already have the lamp, ill just switch out the differnt bulbs when the time comes.

[ffighterstu]

No, it's not needed. I just used it so that I could have 24/7 heating. If you have a heat pad, it would be fine to use. Just like a BP setup I would put a hide both on the warm and on the cool side. If you don't have a heat pad, you can also buy a ceramic heating bulp that would screw into your lamp. They don't emit any light, however they're kind of pricey (about $20-30 I think).

[Brandon.O]

ok, yeah i have an extra heating pad that i use for warming up mice and rats so maybe ill buy one more so i can keep that one for that purpose.

i think instead of housing it in one of my extra ten gallons ill just buy a nice big rubbermaid.

[ffighterstu]

Yeah, I always like giving more room too. I kept my two (make and female) in a 30 gal long terrarium and they did great in it.

Oh, and if you feed them crickets, pull up a chair and bust out some Mission Impossible music. They're really fun to watch hunting and pouncing on the crickets.

[Brandon.O]

haha, yeah i think it will actually be fun to watch unlike when i was feeding live mice to my snake, i hated hearing the little mousie scream and then have to deal with the danger of it biting, but crickets are differnt, it should be fun.

there is a rubbermaid at wal mart that is basicly the same size as a 30 gal but its not as high, but its wider, so i think ill just get one of those and make my little guy a palace