[Sporonicle]

Could I feed baby pictus geckos mealworms or do I have to feed them crickets?
The reason I'm asking is because my parents don't want to deal with the crickets.

[Spazvicious]

Best bet would be the crickets. They're very easy to keep housed, and mealworms can become super pricey the older your pictus gets. Crickets would be the cheapest and best diet for them. Just tell your parents you want a "Kricket Keeper" (usually holds about up to 150 medium size crickets. If your geckos a baby, this would be perfect), and you can keep them housed in there until feeding your geckos.

I have a pictus gecko and he tends to be very picky when it comes to feeding - he'd much prefer crickets over mealworms himself. Then again, I don't know your gecko, so I don't know what they'd rather. Mine won't even touch the worms.

[Thehappypet]

I find it to be the opposite where I live, the crickets are very pricey and the worms are generally very cheap and easy to feed. They tend to be high in fat so occasional feedings of crickets is a good idea, I pick up crickets enough for one feeding every time I go to the pet store and feed worms in between.

[Spazvicious]

Hmmm... any pet store I went to since owning Nemo, the crickets were the cheaper ones. They were like no more than 29 cents a cricket (out of all stores). I could buy 50 crickets for less than 3 bucks. Where abouts are you from?

[hofud]

Unfortuantely, you can not feed your geckos exclusively on mealworms. You can feed them on turkish roach (b.lateralis) which is the best gecko food for smaller geckos in my opinion. If you feed them every second day when they are baby and every third day when they are adults is enough (this can differ in case of adults if your geckos gender male-female). If your parents allow you to keep a small colony of roaches then you will have no problem with food source (roaches easy to keep) of if you can buy crickets just enough amount for a week. (3-4 meal for your babies every week) You don't need to keep crickets only a week amount. Anyway crickets are hard to breed stink and loud.That is why I wrote you should keep only a week amount which is not that much for two or three pictus geckos.