I have decided to start buying more mealies than crickets for my Leo's I would also like to try breeding them what is the best bedding I could get locally? Needs to be easy to get and fairly inexpensive.

Also what are the best things to feed them? and how do I provide them with moisture I heard something about potato slices?

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1.1 Cats: Princess, Buddah "Boo"
0.2 Rats: Noah (hooded) & Winston (himalayan)

I have an innate love for all creatures big and small, no matter if they are furry, scaled, slimy, or feathered.

Hello,
I use a variety of things for bedding with my mealies. Oatmeal, baby food (dry box cereal),and bran flakes are a nice combination.

Potatoe slices and apple slices are a good source of moisture. I place them on a piece of burlap to help avoid contact with the bedding. You wouldn't want them to cause mold.

I use wheat bran but it molds very easy. Tried without bedding but with poor results.

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Wish list: Blue Tongue Skinks and Uruplatus =)

I've found that a layer of soil about 1 inch deep topped off with bits of cork and carrots and plus whatever I happen to have at the time like baby cereal, rice, nuts lasts the longest, resists mold, and never gets stinky........I also use oatmeal but it should be kept towards one side of the container because misting will cause it to mold. I have tongue depressors that I keep to sift through the substrate and these plastic tweezers that works awsome for keeping my hands clean.

I like using cricketfood.com's bedding for mealworms.Other beddings I use for mealworms are chicken or turkey feed/mash, bran, tropical fish food flakes, and baby rice cereal. For my feeders I use a small pile of herpivite vitamin dust supplement and a small pile of baby rice cereal mixed together. After they pupate I put a one inch layer of play sand in a large gladware container so the pupaes have a comphy surface to sit on...( sand isn't required. I prefer to give special treatment to my feeders and breeders...). For the beetles I use turkey or chicken mash/feed- NON MEDICATED. For both mealworms and beetles I use potato slices. Apples don't seem to be a big favorite for the beetles I have, but they love potatos for some reason.0_0

My mealworms really enjoy fish food as well. I had never heard of any one else feeding their meal worms fishmeal but I figured the more varied the diet the better the worms will be for my geckos.

Im just lookin for in expensive easily accessible stuff. I have fish food, and can get oatmeal, wheat bran and baby cereal pretty easily.

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1.1 Cats: Princess, Buddah "Boo"
0.2 Rats: Noah (hooded) & Winston (himalayan)

I have an innate love for all creatures big and small, no matter if they are furry, scaled, slimy, or feathered.

Baby cereal, all the way--it's fortified, and the mealies grow up nice and fat and heathy on it.

Be cautious with the fish food--it can be very high in phosphorus, which isn't something you want more of going into your herps.

What KIND of Baby cereal?

What's this 'bran' I find everyone advising?

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*Cassie*
cmk2005@alltel.net

why in the world did you revive a 6 month old topic?

and the bran is just quick oats or aka oatmeal.

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1.1 Cats: Princess, Buddah "Boo"
0.2 Rats: Noah (hooded) & Winston (himalayan)

I have an innate love for all creatures big and small, no matter if they are furry, scaled, slimy, or feathered.