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ok i am getting a pair of collards in about a week, i have been stocking up on feeder bugs and here is what i have so far phoenix worms, meal worms, horn worms, super worms, wax worms, red wigglers, and crickets will this be enough variety? i plan to add dubia roaches as soon as i can get an establised colony!

That is plenty of variety though most of us do provide crickets and cockroaches as a staple food source in their diet. The worms are great as an occassional filler food in addition some have success in feeding their collareds fruit and veggies. I hear grasshoppers are a huge favourite but I'm not sure of the type or age that are suitable, as one apparently is deadly toxic to the collareds.

Kudos on so much preparation. Word of advice: feed them as many hornworms as possible for as long as you can.
Sometimes, they love them. Sometimes, they don't. But hornworms take less than a week to get so huge that the question is compleely academic, and since they're phenomenally nutritious anyway... if you can, go for it. Most of mine, to be honest, end up as turtle or cane toad food, but almost every month I have one or two CLs that go nuts for 'em.
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0.1 2005 White-Banded Sheen Skink (Minerva)
1.0 2006 Northern Diamondback Terrapin (Queequeg)
1.0 2006 Madagascan Speckled "Hognose" (Sigmund)
1.0 2008 Bullsnake (Winkle)
1.2 2008 Eastern Collared Lizards (Pancho, Lupe, and Chica)
2.0 2009 Eastern Collared Lizards (Cesar and Nino)