Is gutloading Mealworms needed if you dust them?

[endrien]

Is gutloading mealworms needed if you dust them with calcium+d3?

 

[Dog Shrink]

yes because what you gutload with provides other vitimins your leo needs aside of calcium and d3. You should also be dusting with a multivitamin. Using an all in 1 suppliment like t-rex leopard gecko dust by sandfire foods is a good one or repashy calcium plus icb. No messing with separate d3 calcium, and multivitamin.

 

[endrien]

yes because what you gutload with provides other vitimins your leo needs aside of calcium and d3. You should also be dusting with a multivitamin. Using an all in 1 suppliment like t-rex leopard gecko dust by sandfire foods is a good one or repashy calcium plus icb. No messing with separate d3 calcium, and multivitamin.

Wouldn't the all in one not be very good as you need calcium almost every feeding where you need multivitamin a few times a month?

 

[fuzzylogix]

im using the repashy calcium pluc icb with no ill effects

 

[fl_orchidslave]

The feeders have to eat too, gutloading is feeding them nutritious food sources that your animals will benefit from.

 

[Dog Shrink]

The nutritional values in something like an all in 1 are measured and decreased to levels that are healthy to dust every or every other feeding. Hypervotiminosis isn't going to be an issue unless you're leaving a dish of the all in 1 in the tank for your leo and even at that the risk is low. It really is the safest most foolproof way to suppliment imo.