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What do you use to gutload your mealworms with?

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Normally, I just get a mixture of oatbran, wheat bran, oat meal, and wheat germ, add some T-rex cricket diet, and feed apples and carrots. The worms definately seem to like it and they get big. I go through generations like nuts too (about a month from new eggs to beetles). I originally started with regular sized mealworms, but the mealworms got huge, bigger than giant mealworms. HOWEVER, they all died out over the winter, I think some mold got to them, so have to start a new colony with the puny ones.

I'd also would like to put a little more weight on my gecko, so kinda looking to try something new. I was looking for gut loading recipies, but they seem to call for some pretty exotic stuff (spirulina? bee pollen?). Are there any recipes that use easy to get ingredients? I hear the Pro Gecko's gut load is pretty good, anyone have any experience with it?
 
exotic? you can find all those things at natural food stores.
I use rolled oats, wheat bran with spirulina, brewer's yeast, bee pollen, and dried sea kelp.

It takes me a lot longer than a month to go through that entire process.
 
geckonate said:
exotic? you can find all those things at natural food stores.
I use rolled oats, wheat bran with spirulina, brewer's yeast, bee pollen, and dried sea kelp.

It takes me a lot longer than a month to go through that entire process.
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Haha, I guess my problem is I don't have a car, and I have to go out of my way to get to the nearest "natural food store". How warm do you keep your worms? I guess I keep mine on the warmer side (~80-85 deg F) which might explain why they grow so fast.
 
They definitely grow faster at warmer temps. I keep mine at room temperature (74), and only heat them during the winter (it gets pretty cold around here).

I've been using Cody's Pro Gutload for nearly a year now. I absolutely love it! The worms eat it up, and the geckos look great. MUCH easier than making your own. I noticed a big difference in only a few weeks when I made the switch.
 
I had been making my own gut load but just started using Pro Gutload due to time I have none lol I love working overtime but I miss my free time
 
I only use mixed grains and cereals, with bee pollen, all grinded to powder form as bedding; if I could find spirulina and dried sea kelp, I would add those too.

The process from new eggs to beetles seems to take as long as 3 months, I keep them in a room at 75-80F.
 
Cody's gutload is excellent and so is his customer service!!
 
I use Cody's gutload too, it is actually cheaper than when I made my own, I think it winds up at $3 something a pound if you buy 10 lbs and my leos looked better and gained weght during breeding faster once I started using it.
 
So whee do you get this Cody's gutload? I just give my meal worms whatever veggie we have on hand, and keep them in a container of wheat bran. Theyu seem to do ok and I am on my second set of beetles at room temp......Geckos seem to eat them up, in fact going through too many so have to find a more efficient way of raising them...I mean quicker way.
 
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