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Meal worms/darkling beetles

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Question
Hello

I will be getting an adult leopard gecko soon and was wondering how much it should be fed and how offen, also I will be breeding leopard geckos in the future so I will breed the bugs they eat, I have read about the meal worms and know how to breed them but wanted to know if the bettle they turn into can be fed to the geckos also?

Can meal worms make up most of the diet or are crickets better?  

Answer
I don't think that meal worms turn into bettles.  At least its never happened to me.  Crickets are diffently better.  You should only feed your leopard gecko meal worms once or twice a week the rest of the time feed them crickets.  And also the best advice I can give you is to do your homework you can go to http://www.google.com and type in "Leopard gecko care sheets" and you will find out a bunch you may have never known.
Hope this helps,
Tyler F.