Feeding Questions?

[KingLeo]

Hello and I do not have a Leo yet, just trying to get some information! I am mainly going to be feeding my new Leo mealworms, but I have 2 questions.

1) How many meal worms do I feed him a day?

2) Is it ok to get him out of his cage and feed him them by hand?

3) How much and how often do I put calcium on the mealworms in the bowl.

4) What is vitamin powder and how much and how often do I use it.


These might be dumb questions, sorry... Hopefully somebody can answer these for me

 

[acpart]

Good questions actually:
1. Fill the bowl with mealworms (I don't worry about how many) and let the gecko snack as desired
2. You can try feeding by hand. The gecko will either not be interested, preferring to hunt by itself, or it will get well trained to eat out of your hand and may then not want to eat in the cage
3 and 4: I use Repashy Calcium Plus, which is calcium, D3 and vitamins all in one. I don't leave calcium in the cage except for hatchlings. I dust my feeders every other feeding. If you choose to use another product, I'd recommend Rep Cal calcium with D3 and Herptivite multivitamin (made by the same company). In that case, I'd recommend alternating which you dust with each feeding. Other people may have different ideas about how to proceed.

Aliza