Am I doing this right?

1. I feed my leo meal worms, as of right now they were gutloaded with potatoes, but I got Flukers dry gut load for them
2. The meal worms are dusted with Fluker's Calcium w/ D3 on weekdays
3. He doesn't eat them right away, so they kind of just crawl out of his bowl and around his tank until he's hungry and goes after them (I know he's eating cause he poops everyday), my concern with this is I don't know if the calcium powder stays on them by the time he's ready to eat
4. I have a thing of Rep-Cal Herptivite multivitamins, with no D3 listed as an ingredient (but virtually everything else) which I was planning on using to dust the meal worms over the weekend, instead of the Fluker's
5. I also wanted to leave a small dish of the multivitamin out so he can he can eat that as he pleases. I know you can't have D3 in these, but can I have a multivitamin (IE, the herptivite) or does it need to be pure calcium?

Neon Aurora said:

Dusting with calcium w/D3 5 days a week is a lot, IMO. I would just use that once or twice a week. Multivitamin once a week, pure calcium the rest of the week.

Try using an escape proof bowl for the mealies so they can't escape and lose all of their calcium.

You should leave pure calcium in his tank, not vitamins. Some vitamins (the fat soluble ones) can be dangerous in higher amounts and calcium deficiency is often more of a problem than vitamin deficiency.

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Neon Aurora said:

You can, I just wouldn't recommend using calcium with D3 that often, even in a young gecko.

Just throwing it out there, you can make your life much simpler by using Repashy Calcium Plus. It's an all-in-one supplement you can use every day that covers all of your bases. I raised my hatchlings using this and they are extremely healthy. I also don't dust every feeding (sometimes I don't have time, very busy). You may still want to leave some pure calcium (no D3) in the tank.

Also, if he is above 20 grams than you can feed every other day.

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