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blupanther
at Mon Dec 11 18:17:31 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by blupanther ]
I recently bought a mulberry tree as a food source for silkworms. It is about the size you could fit into a typical chameleon enlosure 4x2x2. I had the same idea as you, but wanted to find out if it was safe first. When my first shipment of worms came in(100) I plucked 8 leaves and dropped them in with the silkies. I went and washed my hands and when I returned minutes later the leaves were GONE, stems and all. I was barely able to keep the worms alive for the 2 weeks it took my cham to eat them all. I had the worms on a starvation diet and used more than HALF of the leaves from the tree. The worms were getting very week towards the end and probably had low nutritional value. My point is, it would take a large yard size tree to sustain even a small amount of silkworms. I planted it in my yard already. The plus side is, the trees are very durable(mine is recovering although it still looks scraggly) and the fruit is delicious. I never found out if they are safe for chams. My guess is yes since you can feed worms that ate the leaves, but that is just a guess.
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- Mulberry trees - captotterboy, Sun Dec 10 19:34:49 2006
- RE: Mulberry trees - dianedfisher, Mon Dec 11 09:34:23 2006
 RE: Mulberry trees - blupanther, Mon Dec 11 18:17:31 2006 
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