Do I need to clean my feeders?

[Jakobus]

So I use Black Solider Fly Larvae as feeders and they come in this container with little specs of what looks like sawdust. My beardie is about a month old (a wee little guy) and I'm worried about him eating the sawdust that the worms come in. They often get stuck to the side of the worms so what I have fed him (it's not a lot since hes brand new and not eating too often) gets brushed off before feeding.

Do I have to worry about getting all the substrate off of them?

Is there an easier way to get all the worms out of the substrate?

I tried to dump them in a bucket of water because I was told that they float but the ones that I did put in (maybe 50) all sunk to the bottom with the substrate. Any help would be appreciated!

 

[kyleena29]

I use a kitchen strainer to rinse them off. Then I dump them onto paper towels and dry them so they can't climb out of the feeding dish.
Something like this you can find at the store, find one with a mesh that is not too fine as you want the tiny holes to be big enough to remove debris without the worms going through it. You could probably use a colander that doesn't have too big of holes in it too. Just gotta look around.