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my frilled is super fat now. i'm kinda worried because i haven't read anything on these guys over eating. hes so pudgy its cute, but not sure if this is somthing i should worry about. i'll post some pics and see what you guys think.

he lost a little weight after digesting! lol, but he was really round.

You aint seen nuttin yet..Wait till he is a bit older...

My Grissom is about 5/6 months old and has a Santa Belly....Fat and Happy

super worms are fattening along with butter worms, wax worms, meal worms are useless.

good staple feeders are crickets roaches and silk worms and horn worms.

i found out today that silk worms have an enzime that help with the digestion and prossessing of calcium as well as pain relief!

frills just look plump at this age is what i have come to believe. look at adult frills and they are round but its more filling.

mines on a diet of 75% crickets 10% Silk and 5% horned, he loves em! i just read a little bit about feed in moderations and be sparing with the horned and silks because they are high in fat, but he loves em so much. lol, i thought he was gunna explode the first day he tried em.

silk worms have less fat then crickets, crickets are 22% fat and silk worms are 10%
crickets are 11% protien and silk worms are 64% protien

silk worms are BY FAR extreamly more nutritious then crickets, i am sorry if these numbers arnt 100% accurate, beautiful dragon dot com isnt loading up so i cant pull my info from that, and i am pulling my info off another site. but i know for a fact that silk worms have significantly less fat and rediculiously more protien,

silk worms have an enzime in them that helps break down and prossess calicium in the body, they are WONDERFULL daily feeders as they also have ALOT of moisture in them. i think the only down side is mushy poop since there is less actual waist when digesting the silk worm.