Quote Originally Posted by PythonWallace
I've heard things to that nature about meal worms, but I remeber reading in a book about captive care of leos that one at the San Diego zoo? lived for over 24 years and was only fed meal worms. I doubt they only fed fresh molted, headless worms. Can anyone correct this information?
Mealworms get a bad wrap because, often times, people are getting worms that have been in a deli cup in a store's fridge for long periods of time, and possibly longer at the distributor before they got to the pet store - so there's not much nutrition left and they are pretty dehydrated at that point.

Just gutload your mealworms - let them eat fresh veggies, fruit, etc, and keep them in some kind of good edible bedding, and they'll be packed with good stuff for your leos.