Do I have the right plan?

[98XJSport]

Ok now that it's nearing 1 week until I get my wee beasties, Its time to start getting food together. I just ordered Pro Geckos gutload, and plan on feeding mealworms. I plan on getting a container with vent holes, and getting a couple hundred mealies at a time. Its been a long time since Ive used them, and never for Leos. I plan on putting like 1" of gutload in the bottom, then placing the worms on top. Then placing in the fridge, as long as they are above 35 or so. Take them out ~ once a week, throw in fruit/veggie slices, give them a few hours, and put them back?

The question being that will this give them enough time to eat/be gutloaded?

And as for feeding, I plan on throwing 10-20 worms into the dish, with some gutload and a small slice of fruit/veggie. Dusting once a week with calcium/D3 and once a week with a multi-vitamin (Dont remember what it's called). i figure on maintaining that for about a week, throwing out any that die, and then cleaning out the dish and starting over weekly. I will adjust the # of worms accordingly once I see how much they eat.

Does it sound like I know what Im doing? Any holes in the plan?

 

[acpart]

Sounds good. I use the small faunarium for mealworms (plastic container about 12"x6") whose lid already has vent holes. I throw in vegetable parings. Personally I don't keep mealworms in the fridge because I've had too many times where they've all died. Other people do keep them there with no problems. In my mealworm breeding capacity I've found that they grow slower even if they're kept on the cold side of a room.

Aliza