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Pink tongue? Or younge blue tongue? Such a cutie <3

I have a surplus of adults in my colonies right now and I am trying to trim them down some to encourage new nymph growth. All of these need to be kept in bioactive enclosures. Ember Roaches- mixed only (adults and nymphs) Non flying, non-climbing 10 adults/20 nymphs (1 available) 12.00 +...

My silks are constantly by a source of heat, have had almost no die offs out of 300, maybe like a handful. Its just... i am use to faster growers. They are eating and growing, i can SEE the growth but its just SLOW

The locale of silkworms i have are extremely slow growing. However genetically strong. Im frustrated with the time they take to grow. Im trying to time out when to pull another 300 eggs to hatch but omg i cant seem to guess their growth rate. Otherwise the other inverts are growing like mad. Im...

Thank you @jamest0o0 so much. They have already started eating and settling in.

The second one are tiger silkworms

And then these little ones just hatched yesterday

Not all these pics are great cause some of them didnt cooperate. I dont blame them though, was a long journey.

Thankfully it only takes about 1-2 hours to take care of them once you get a routine down. My animals generally take about 3 hours a day in care not considering dog walks or any big food prep days.

This seems to be a regular problem with silkworms. I hope more silkworm suppliers join the fray soon. But i also know silkworms are a lot of work from egg to moth. I usually raise in small amounts, sticking only to a few thousand every batch

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good escargot are like whelks or I guess a bit like meatier clams, slightly different taste but not too much different. No slime cause once cooked it's gone, and then most people use a garlic and herb butter sauce Chameleons, skinks, and a lot of other species of lizards love young snails.

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Usually dubia roaches do best with no large variances from what ive seen. So no drops or increases are necessary, however changes within safe ranges wont kill them. More complex species do better with dormancy periods or humidity spikes etc. But most feeders species are easy keepers

But i also keep a far larger species of reptile than most chams and have sold to monitor keepers

I end up buying bulk shoppung containers of various types depending on the insect along with heatpacks for winter shipping

Heck yeah, hissers are great food for almost all chams as nymphs and then adult hissers tend to be fed to giant species

Thank you so much Kinyonga, finding papers has been like wading through mud. I want to be more informed as always, and I just know nutrition is the such an important root to health for everything.

I used to do it in the beginning too. But then I realized sometimes they are so different, things we do just don't make sense for the animals we feed. Etc. We rely a lot on mammal nutrition information but it doesn't make a lot of sense to do that. The reptiles and insects have a simpler gut...

Interesting. I wish we had more data on their nutrtitional needs and the way they digest. We barely have started looking into natural diet for dogs. So i can only imagine how long it will take for reptiles and insects.