Morio worm for P grandis

[Nathanb]

Quick on these (and mealworms for that matter) - I always feed them to my grandis in a dish - one of the Morios got out earlier and is loose somewhere in the enclosure, there's no way I'm trying to get it out as I don't want to dig all the plants up and that will just unnecessarily spook the gecko.

If it turns into a beetle do I need to get it out or will she just eat it?

Thanks
Nathan

 

[JessJohnson87]

Most geckos will not eat the beetles, the exoskeleton is way too hard. You can always leave it in there to clean up the poop, unless you already have a cleaner crew.

I actually had to look up what type of worm, used to seeing superworm and not morio worm lol.

 

[Nathanb]

Thanks Jess - I had a feeling that would be the case. There's already a cleaning crew of springtails and earth worms in there, but more cleaners won't hurt!

To be fair I'll be surprised if it makes it though to beetle - with the tank being so heavily planted she has to hunt, if it's daft enough to stick its head up she'll have it I suspect lol!

I didn't think of that with the name - they're always marked up as Morio worms in the UK for some reason, I know them as super worms as well though