Ok - I have a question for you - do you plan on breeding these as well as feed some directly to your cham? When I say breeding I mean entire life cycle - caterpillar, pupa, adult moth, supplying food source for moth, mating the moths, collecting the deposited eggs and beginning all over again.



OR are you just planning to feed these off?



If breeding, yes, you want to "trick" the larva into thinking it is summer (longer days) so that it does not go into a lengthy diapause by exposing them to 13-15 hours of light. Since it is winter and days are shorter you would setup UVB lights for this length, or (if you want to save on the bulb use) have the bulb go on about 2 hours before sunset for the final 3-5 hours. Where do you live - temperature has influence as well? Regardless, they will remain in their pupal stage (hard brown "skin" ) for a month before emerging as moths.



If you are just feeding them off then none of this matters. The only thing you would consider then, might be to slow them down (they grow fast) by lowering temps and cutting back on food to some degree.



Clear as mud??








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