Feeder Insects

Questions and topics answered on this page:

  • Feeder insect Q&A.

  • Dead vs live feeder insects.

  • Unboxing and setting up feeder insects.

  • Fuzzy worms with your feeder insects.

  • Setting up a mealworm breeding colony.

  • Setting up a morio worm breeding colony.

Feeder insect Q&A.

From caring for your feeder insects to gut loading and dusting, I thought I’d include this feeder insect Q&A in this section as it should set you up for success. It should give you an idea of how to keep your feeder insects alive and supply your geckos with nutrient-rich food.

Dead vs live feeder insects.

You may wonder, ‘why should I bother keeping these mealworms alive, when I can buy a bucket full of dead ones?’. You may see these dead insects offered for wild birds, but are they good for our reptiles, or should we stick to live insects?

Unboxing and setting up feeder insects.

I’ve done quite a few videos over the years where I’d take feeder insects I’d ordered online and unbox them in front of the camera, showing you how I set up their enclosures and feed them. So I thought I’d choose this video as a good example of what I do.

Setting up a mealworm breeding colony.

There are many ways you can keep mealworms in order to create a successful breeding colony, however, beetles can end up predating on eggs and mealworms, so it is important to separate them. The Bug Factory sent me these enclosures to raise my mealworms in, and I still use them to this day.

Setting up a morio worm breeding colony.

Morio worms should only be fed as a treat. They’re one of the few feeder insects that stay in their larvae state for a prolonged time. So, I worked out how to get the worms to pupate and become their adult form, the beetle, in order to reproduce. Here is how I did.