Petco and PetSmart should have mealworms, you probably have to ask for them though as they keep them in the back in the fridge.
You do have to gutload your crickets, I make my own out of rolled oats, wheat bran, flax, dry milk, and baby rice cereal...the more good stuff you add the better your Leo's will be. I grind all that up pretty fine and leave a little baby food jar cap in for the crickets to munch on, I keep a chopped up carrot in with them too for moisture.
Baby/juvies should be feed dusted crickets (or worms, roaches...whatever they are eating) every day. I used pure calcium 5 days a week, calcium w/D3 1 day and vitamins/minerals 1 day. My guys are all adults now and don't eat every day but I dust with vit/min's and D3 a few times a month and leave a cap of pure calcium in their tanks all the time for them to lick (you should do that no matter the age anyway).
Yes...you powder them when they are alive...I don't understand though, are you killing them before feeding your geckos? They can (and prefer) to eat them alive.
Try to find some pure calcium, don't give them the D3 more than twice a week...too much of that is really not good for them.
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