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Can I give raise a leo on silkworms and mealworms only? Plus my leo hasn't touched crickets in about 3 days. I heard the silkworms are too fatty or watery.
I am sick of crickets, now I have about 10 loose in my bedroom.
Plus they smell, and they are noisy, and hard to catch.
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Tim W. My Pictures
0.1.0 Dumeril Boas
0.1.0 Kittens
0.0.1 Leopard Geckos

It rubs the lotion on it's skin. It rubs the lotion on it's skin or else it gets the hose again.
Bleach and Ammonia make Ammonium Chloride = Dead you

Hey there,
SIlkworms are actually thought of as one of the most nutrtious feeders out their. So a base diet of mealies/ silkies would be great!

To watery or to fatty? Hmmmmm... That may be the case with butterworms and waxworms!
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Steven ,

and flock;
-1.1 Cockatiels(Buddy and Jake)
-1.1 Budgies(Chipy and Peaches)
-1.0 Orange cheeked waxbill

And slime/scales;
-1.0 Firebellied toad
-1.0 Japanese firebellied newt
-1.0 Leopard gecko
-4 leopard frog tadpoles

Fish, feeders and other wriggly things!

I was reading they are like 75% water but still really nutritious, it just gave them runny stools.

>>Hey there,
>>SIlkworms are actually thought of as one of the most nutrtious feeders out their. So a base diet of mealies/ silkies would be great!
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>>To watery or to fatty? Hmmmmm... That may be the case with butterworms and waxworms!
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>> Steven ,
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>>and flock;
>>-1.1 Cockatiels(Buddy and Jake)
>>-1.1 Budgies(Chipy and Peaches)
>>-1.0 Orange cheeked waxbill
>>
>>And slime/scales;
>>-1.0 Firebellied toad
>>-1.0 Japanese firebellied newt
>>-1.0 Leopard gecko
>>-4 leopard frog tadpoles
>>
>>Fish, feeders and other wriggly things!
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Tim W. My Pictures
0.1.0 Dumeril Boas
0.1.0 Kittens
0.0.1 Leopard Geckos

It rubs the lotion on it's skin. It rubs the lotion on it's skin or else it gets the hose again.
Bleach and Ammonia make Ammonium Chloride = Dead you

Me too, lol. I just ordered 100 small silkworms and 500 eggs, and a pound of mulberry chow to raise them on. Sick of crickets. Same reasons as you: they are hard to catch, smell, and i have about 8 loose in my room too
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Cranbrook, British Columbia
0.0.2 Baby Leopard Geckos (Unnamed)
1.0.0 Green Anole

Yes, you can do without crickets. In about June I switched about 200 geckos to supers and mealies. About half ate silkies and half refused. Got 2000 crickets 10 days ago, fed about 200 and the rest died. Have 2000 lobster roaches but will have tested for nasties to make sure they're clean before feeding. DONE with crickets!!

I've feed my 10 leos on nothing but mealies and once a show has been in town on silkies as well and all of them are fatter then when i use to keep them on crix, not to mention i have had no impaction problems after i switched. I'm never going back to crix, just make sure u gut load mealies and of course add the proper vitemines (spelling?) other wise they won't get all there nutritian.

We also use only superworms and mealworms. All of our leos are very healthy. When we only had 2 leos we used crickets and they never really seemed interested so we switched because feeding 29 leos crickets would suck....lol plus I hated when they got loose. So now they are all on supers and mealies and they are all happy. I haven't tried silkworms yet, just because we haven't been able to find any around here.

I was thinking of getting roaches too. Yes, they are nasty, but don't stink, and don't jump, and can't fly (some).
I just ordered 100 juvenile silkworms and food for them for $11.00 shipped from www.silkwormfarm.com. The only problem is there are no mulberry trees around here (that I know of, guess it would help to know what they look like).

>>We also use only superworms and mealworms. All of our leos are very healthy. When we only had 2 leos we used crickets and they never really seemed interested so we switched because feeding 29 leos crickets would suck....lol plus I hated when they got loose. So now they are all on supers and mealies and they are all happy. I haven't tried silkworms yet, just because we haven't been able to find any around here.
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Tim W. My Pictures
0.1.0 Dumeril Boas
0.1.0 Kittens
0.0.1 Leopard Geckos

It rubs the lotion on it's skin. It rubs the lotion on it's skin or else it gets the hose again.
Bleach and Ammonia make Ammonium Chloride = Dead you

worst experience of my life:

I was 12 years old, and my parents had bought me two green anoles (yeeeah... they didn't know much about reptiles... terrible pet for a 12 year old...)
I had an ice cream bucket with about 100 crickets in it.. now I don't know what kind of crickets they were, but they made noise... I noticed that the only noise my gecko's crickets make are a weird gutteral clicking every now and again, but these ones were the "chirp chirp chirp my goal in life is to drive you nuts! chirp chirp chirp" -kind.

aaanyways
I have a little sister, she was 6 at the time, and one night she went upstairs to peer at my lizards as she usually did (and actually... still does...) the aquarium was on my dresser which was considerably taller than she was, so she had to pull herself up to look at them.

When she did, she knocked over the ice cream container of crickets... panicking, she left the room quickly and didn't tell anyone out of fear of my 12 year old wrath.

I get home, leave the lights off and just crawl into bed...I begin to notice that the chirping seems more intense now...louder and in my ears, and my hair....and everywhere.

I completely froze up, my bed was full of them, they were literally everywhere
we had to get an exterminator to come in
i couldn't sleep for weeks

needless to say, it took many years for me to work up the courage to buy another insectivore.
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Alexandria Neonakis
Owner of:
Olivia the Female Green Ig
Maize(f) and Onyx(m) the cornsnakes
Peter(m) and Lois(f) the Leopard Geckos