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I bought a jackson about 2 months ago.it was fed only crickets.since I have had him. I have been feding him wax worms.mealworm and silkworms.He will not eat the crickets now.Should I be cocerned or will he go back to crickets. thanks,matt

feed him mainly silkworms and then mealwroms for just snacks every once in a while waxwaorms should only be given on occacion.....offer him crickets every couple days.

he mostly got tired of eatting only crickets for two months and has know decided he doesn't want them anymore

Sorry but I disagree. Silkies cannot be gut loaded properly and should be the staple food. And meal worms are too chitinous. Superworms are far superior.
Ed

i have tried giving him supermeal worms with his crickets and all he ate was the crickets. i have had him for about 7 months and he is about 10 months old now, and he only eats crickets. am i lucky that he is not picky or should i be concernd
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Mine seems to love his crickets as well. I was getting him silkworms, but he refused any of the last batch (for about 2 weeks) so I've given up on that. He has eaten superworms but only once. Ignores them now. I got him a bunch of praying mantis and he really seems to like them. They're not really big enough to feed to him but one escaped and made the mistake of hiding in his cage. He grabbed it from a good 8 inches away (has been lazy about crickets, climbing right in the dish with them). I think that as long as you're gutloading well and he's eatinging them, go for it!

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