Easier way to feed off mealworms ?

[KashMoneyExotics]

Hi have my mealworms in a container with oatmeal bedding and carrots. But when feeding them to my geckos its tedious work to separate the worms from the oatmeal just to feed 1 gecko 12-14 mealworms. Its sometimes takes 5 minutes. I’m getting ready to get into breeding leopard geckos and I can’t take that long to feed several geckos. So I just wanted to know if there are some easier and faster ways to sift them out of their bedding so I can just put a few in a dish at a time.

 

[Akari_32]

I use a sand sifter for my meal worms. Works pretty well, actually.

 

[acpart]

Put the oatmeal in the blender (without the mealworms) to powder it and use a sifter as suggested above.

Aliza

 

[Phoenix1115]

I use a wire sand sifter as well

 

[Phantom240]

Or you can use wheat bran and a sifter.

 

[Superior Reptiles]

Put a cardboard thing like a flat part of a box. They will crawl up onto it

 

[KashMoneyExotics]

Thank you for your suggestions. I have another problem i shelf on my rack has completely lost heat the other shelves are fine. I’m getting to start breeding and I need that whole shelf to hold the babies. I’ve tried re wiring it several times. The heat tape (flex watt ) is placed in parallel. What should I do

 

[Superior Reptiles]

Does the thermostat still work? If theres no geckos on the rack then just plug the heat source straight into the wall to see if thats the problem

 

[KashMoneyExotics]

The thermostat works fine it’s just that one shelf that don’t work

 

[DrCarrotTail]

Have you tried replacing the flex watt and getting all new wires and connections? If the piece not working is in the middle I doubt its the wires but cheap enough fix to try it.

 

[KashMoneyExotics]

I did have that in the back of my mind. So far that looks like what I have to do