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Thanks everyone! I think she is working on being gravid for the first time. She is about 8-9 months old and was showing orange and pinks until a few days ago. Now showing dark bands and this all over purple coloration. Getting a laying bin ready...

Had to share my girlie - Skittles. She is throwing some good purple today.

Skittles - female sambava x ambilobe. Spyder - ambilobe male

Thanks! I had no idea about the color. Here I was thinking I got swindled. Is it normal for there to be such a size difference? Will the others catch up or will some delay cocooning?

Let me clarify... I ordered them the end of October and it took two weeks for them to hatch so we are going on 4 weeks. It feels like it is taking forever. Here is a pic of the size differences. They are all from the same eggs. For some reason I also given "normal" eggs mixed in with these...

I don't have any trees so am using the chow. I too have read that if you start on chow or on leaves the worms will not switch. I am thinking of getting a tree this spring. The chow can be messy to clean up, thinking a leaf skeleton would be easier to clean than funky day old chow

Excited for you and jealous! I hatched 200 eggs almost two months ago. There are about 10 or so that have gotten huge and the others are not nearly as big. I hope I get some cocoon action soon.

I so want the Ralphie bunny suit! I think Spyder is warming up, but definitely does not like stripes.

Well that proves what I thought. I have been going thru stripe phase with my fashion choices and my newest boy has been acting grumpier than usual.

I always wonder what my chams think of my clothes. Since the communicate with color and pattern, do they get "put off" by my brightly striped shirt? I always wonder if they wonder what mood I am in. :)

Ok, so if you are on the east coast you have heard about the ice storm. I am right in the heaviest ice band and a power outage is most likely in my future. So I went out and bought a generator to keep my babies warm should it actually happen. If this happens or has happened what is/was your...

Cheese grater I am using...

I was cleaning out the worm bin and thought I would share my handful of worms... I use a spoon and put a chunk into my cheese grater and it is working ok.

I am using a pampered chef cheese grater the kind with the handle you rotate like at Olive Garden. I really hope they start to grow. I have a handful at the 3/4 inch mark but none have moved into 2nd instar status. Wanting about 10 to cocoon to make more eggs.

I don't have any pics on my phone of me holding my lovelies, but here is a pic of me. I used to have rescued snapping turtle that was freed, and a green iguana that was 5 ft long that free ranged in her own room. Sadly she died of old age. I currently have 2 panthers, a bearded dragon and a...

Hello! I have been on vacation 9 hours away and not as dedicated to the forum this week. I actually took them with me for fear my pet sitter would not take good care of my baby worms. I had about 250-300 hatch. Some are reaching 1/2 inches, most are still very small. Non have yet shed...

I woul suggest you start by researching and reading how to do it. YouTube is a great resource for how to videos. You need to start with adult crickets (males have wings, females have long omnispores. Don't get ones that you need to feed off right away. You need ones you can leave alone for at...

I am sure there are others here with more experience. I fed them using the same gut loading recipe I fed my feeders. Here is some good info. They will eat anything. You just need to be careful with water droplets as condensation or standing water can drown them...

I just did this for the first time. I had maybe 1,000 little hatchlings and ended up with about half that. I just kept feeding them and changing out the food. I used a wet paper towel as a water source. The other thing I did was make sure to keep them warm. The biggest headache was keeping...

I got zebra too. It was $5 more, but they are supposed to be less delicate. If you don't plan to hatch all of them or hatch them right away, ask that they ship them with a cold pack. If not all will be on their journey to hatchdom. This is what I was told...