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Does anyone use Mini-mealworms as a staple for their chams??
http://www.minimealworms.com/index.html
that's the site that sells them.
i kno their teeny tiny, but i'd be using them as food for Pygmy Chams (R. Brev).
thx
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1.1.0 Bearded Dragons
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Signature file edited; [phw 9/24/04]
Ow that site hurt my eyes.
One good thing about crickets is they're really juicy. Those mealys didn't seem to have a lot of moisture. Also they are mostly hard keratinous skin, which many people don't like as it can cause impactions.
As for the nutritional content though, I'm not really sure. I get confused because some sights list their nutritional info on dried buggies, while others list on live ones. Beautiful Dragons lists crix as having 21% protein, 6% fat, and 70% water. Though your site lists minis as 48% protein, 40% fat (that's alot of fat), and 56% water, they say they are the same as regular mealworms, which are 20, 12, and 62.
So I think that if you just fed those minis you could end up with some hefty chams from all that fat.
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~Melissa
1.0 Ambanja Panther (Diesel)
0.1 African Hegdehog (Kaimah)
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