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Hi,
Has anyone had any regular success with prey items other than crickets for Uroplatus?

Justin

i have had very good success feeding wild caught grasshoppers and other hopping inscects. i suppose moths might also work, but you can try anything i suppose. i also heard that they love cocroaches and land snails. now this might be hard to find (the snails) but the latter should be easy to find from a pet store that specialslizes in exotic pets.

when you say land snails are you talking about just those everyday snails that become incredible pests in peoples garden? will the realy crack one of them open and eat it shell and all?

I've fed my henkeli females pinkies (as an occasional treat) before along with snails (shell included since its basically the most important part)

I feed my henkelis 3 species of roaches which they like a lot. I also give superworms, locusts and grasshoppers.

Ci@o

Ingo

I feed Lobster roaches as the main diet for my U. henkeli, with cricets only as an ocasional treat. He responds well to the roaches, and they are nutritionaly very sound. I also like the lobster roaches as they are quiet, odorless, and easy to breed.

I just recieved 500 silk worms from www.mulberryfarms.com, and they sent me some goliath green hornworms also. I can't wait to see how my henk likes the worms (which are one of the most nutrition foods you can get for your herps actually).

Good luck,
Jared

How did you like mulberry farms? Did your order show up a live? how many dead? Just wondering kind of shoping around for good food supplies

my order was live, on time, and came with 10 free goliath horn worms as a bonus. They are generally considered the best (and certainly the least expensive) supplier of silk worms around. Their pre-made silk worm "chow" also makes it easy, since it eliminates the need for fresh mulberry leaves.

I get my roaches, and their food, from Ronnie Buck at www.cricketfood.com

Jared

Thanks for the tip. Do you ever go food hunting out in the wild. What's the deal with things like inch worms slugs etc. are they good food. Has anyone ever thought of using earth worms as a way to keep their substrate clean and airated like a biological work force. I know it works in gardens and that some of the pro's actualy add them to their gardens in volume for that express purpose. Just curious if there would be any crossover success.

I actually have "pill bugs" in my Uro. viv. They are the most facinating little detritovorous isopods. They eat the decayting leaves that fall form the plants, feces that I don't pick up in time, and any feeder insects that escape predition and die on their own.

Here's how i got them:
I went out into woods, scooped up a section of leaf litter (mostly oak) about the same size as the floor space of the viv. I found about 20-30 pill bugs in that one area, so that is how many I added to the viv, in addition to some of the leaf litter I found them in. The planting mix I use is a peat, coconut bark chip, sand, cypress wood mix, with the leaf litter on top.

I don't do too much feild colecting of prey, simply due to time contraints of gettign far enough away from pesticide-use areas to safely do so.

Jared

By pill bugs you mean the little grey bugs that look kind of segmented but roll up into a little ball if you touch them. we call them potato bugs where I'm from and I just want to be sure were thinking of the same bug.

There are hundreds of isopods that fit this discription, but yes, those are the bugs I'm talking about. the ones I have are about a 1/4" long and very black. There are some in the rainforests of Madagascar over 5" long!

Jared

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