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Hello,

I have been reading a lot of lizard forums lately since I've had just about everything BUT lizards before, and I saw ads for silkworms and people who raise their own cockroaches. I've raised live foods for my fish before, and found it was much nicer than running to the petstore twice a week. However, crickets are far too smelly to be raising, so I was curious about other foods.

Will leaftails eat silkworms, mealworms, cockroaches, or any other foods??

Also, what kinds of supplements do you use? I have Flukers repta-vitamin powder to dust the crickets, but I was thinking of getting a gutload product too, since I'll be getting a weeks worth of crickets and only feeding what she will eat in a night. What do all of you guys use/recommend.

Sorry about all the questions. I swear I did my research, but the more you learn, the more you learn you don't know NEARLY enough!!!

I can say that fluker products are good but there are better ones! also, trying a more natural gut load, water source and such would be much better for the crix and herps.

bug wise, i found that Up's don't take to worms; silk, butter, wax or meal to well. i've tried the smallest silks and butters but nothing. i've had mixed results with roaches; lobsters and othes. blaberuis (sp) are good. i've luck with smaller nymphs but only in less natural habitats. Up are lazy eaters in my opinion. heck, i watched a gravid female follow a pill bug for 5 minutes before finally overcoming it, *crunch*. crickets are IMO accepted easier as they move faster but pause long enough to get eaten. pill bugs work too but as for the adult one, no luck. seems that once the pill bugs reach 3/8th inch, the Up won't eat them. no luck with snails that i've seen but i don't stare at the vivariums that long...need sleep right?

one thing that did work for me was to feed each one their own in a feeding tank. each feeding offered a differnt item. crix were last, first was pill bugs, then roaches, moth larva (wax worms), silks, butters but this was a huge time suck. hope some of this helps.
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