switching feeders

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Arachnobaron
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wow. havent posted in awhile.

but anyway, i just recently bought two new leopard geckos at the hamburg show, and they wont eat mealworms. they do however eat crickets.
ones a adult snow possible blizzard het female,
the other is a tremper albino female.
can anyone tell me if theres a easy way i can get them to eat mealworms?
its easier for me to feed mealworms in most of my geckos diets since i breed them now, but i do feed a variety of insects to my herps.
 

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Arachnolord
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Try putting both in a small shallow food dish, cripple the crickets first so they can't crawl out. Maybe while they've eaten the crickets they still see movement from the worms and they're still in food mode they'll take to eating them. It's similar to how I've switched snakes from mice to rats, or vice versa, give them one of what they want and from then on they'll eat whatever you want.

Or you could do like I do, wait till they get hungry enough to eat them. ;)
 

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Arachnobaron
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thanks. i never had to switch feeders in geckos, so i didnt know what to do.
 
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