Ive heard this here and that there.... you cant feed them to your animals, becuase they will eat their stomach from the inside. You can feed them to your animals because their bite is strong enough to kill em.
I am feeding an eight month old fat tail male. he is approximately five inches snout to vent, give or take. the reptile center was outta mealworms, so i got supers on the account of the salesman, claiming its o.k. I cannot bring myself to cut off their heads. can someone give me some direction before i go feeding them to him?
thanks so much
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what is the deal with super worms??
alieliza
Sep 25, 2003 10:23 PM
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bisendow
Sep 25, 2003 10:34 PM
I would find a way to bring yourself to cut the heads off. Doing that would probably be less traumatic if you refridgerated the worms overnight, to minimize squirming.
-Paul
ingo
Sep 26, 2003 01:19 AM
Its just a myth, which has been traded for mealworms since decades.
Its absolutely not true. It would take too much time and space to explain you in detail, why I am so sure about that.
But maybe you are already covninced when I tell you that since almost 10 years I do feed about 10kg of superworms per year to my lizards and even though I never manipulate their heads, they never harmed any animal.
Also to my experience the nutritional value of well gut loaded superworms is much better than their reputation says.
Hope that helps
Ingo
