Mealworms safe? quick reply appreciated...

[Green_Snake]

I found some tiny mealworms at ***** the other day. I haven't been paying much attention to the mealworm shortage because I feed crickets, but I bought them, and one of my geckos was gobbling them up because I haven't fed them in about 4 days....

But, are they safe to feed? I took them out because I wanted to check.

if you know, please reply ASAP because I want to feed them or not before I got to bed in 1/2 hour...

Thanks,

Draba

 

[Kristi23]

Mealworms are fine to feed. A lot of people use them as their staple. I feed mealworms and dubia roaches to mine.

 

[Scoots85]

Were they in a small can? I saw a pet chain-store selling small cans of crickets and mealworms and I wasn't even sure how that can be. Are they dead in there?

 

[rcobourn]

I've yet to find anything that will eat those canned (yes, they are quite dead) bugs.

 

[bellicose]

You are going to want to get ones that are refrigerated, they are alvie, but will warm up quickly, but I have been able to convince my leo of eating canned ones from ******** by dangling them in front of her. Good luck!

 

[Ultrakd]

Yeah mealworms are erfectly fine. That and Dubia Roaches are my staple

 

[Green_Snake]

They are the referigerated ones, and alive. I just was wondering why the mealworms were dying, and if whatever was harming them was harming the geckos.

But it's a moot point anyways, as I fed the mealies and the geckos are fine :main_yes: