Hi Brwester.

I have been keeping tribo's since 2004! Since then the collection grew and of course I also lost some. My best breeding female died last year because of calcium deficiency of all the egglaying and wrong food she got. At this time I have 3 breeding males and 4 breeding females. 1 CB male from 2007 and tonight one hatched inside the enclosure and I have 2 eggs cooking. The oldest male I have must be arournd 15-20 years of age and is huge!

Eversince I lost my breeding female, all my tribo's receive a constant offering of mealworms. In a tub not loose in the cage, then they will eat the tribs!

Crickets are also fed but not that often and not much. I have had several incidents that the tribs were attacked by the crickets and had open wounds! Tribs are not that smarts..

Waxworms are also one of their favorites but they are also dangerous, because the make your trib fat! And if you feed them to often they only want waxworms!

Rainworms/groundworms are also fed, they are eaten occasionally if spotted.

Furthermore I do not keep them too wet! Then they get sores on their skin, they do have a watertub in which they can submerge themselfes.

Hope I helped you a bit...

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