Posted by:
epollak
at Sun Feb 22 08:18:19 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by epollak ]
We need to make distinction between "super mealworms", hormone-enhanced mealworms (Tenebrio) and superworms (Zophobos). Superworms are better for the cham. Meal worms can still be fed but shouldn't (IMO) be a staple.
I have some chams who eat mostly crix and refuse superworms (even small ones). Bt I recently got some mealworms and the same guy who refuses superworms is eating the mealworms. It's not good to feed only crix (or "only" anything else for that matter). Variety is quite important to good cham health & reproduction. I'd urge you to try other prey items: waxworms, flies, mantid egg cases, stick bugs, roaches, pill bugs, etc. may all be order on line. And once the summer comes, you can catch katydids, slugs, land snails, moths, etc. And, of course, bait shops can get earthworms as well as mealies, wax worms, etc.
So keep trying to find other prey items.
Ed
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