Feeding woodlice´s?
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Progrmor
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Yes that was what I meant!
Okey, but maybe in a combination with crickets and fruit flies?Gorgosaurus
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My Jackson's pair get 4 or 5 woodlice each almost daily. They eagerly snap them up and have no problem fully digesting them. A natural calcium boost.
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armando
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I use them too...
People in here recomend not to use wild caught ones.. it seems that wild ones accumulate toxins or something like that from their environment...
What I did was this: I caught a whole bunch of them from my backyard... and placed them in a container with clean soil, lots bark, leaves. I left them in there for about 2 months, and they reproduced very fast. I keep them moist (they die If dry out) and feed them almost anything.... I use my dubias roaches skin, or any other dead insect...(NOT sick and stuff)
and also greens, fruits, and stuff...
its good to add some calcium in the food, they seem to grow better and bigger...
once you get the colony going, you can start using the new ones.
My cham loves them... he hasnt been eating them for about a month or so, I dont know why, but I used to feed them a couple of times at week... like Gorgosaurus says.. they are a good calcium source.
Sandrachameleon has a great blog about them, i used all her information for my colony... here it is...
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...orcellio-pillbugs-woodlice-rollie-pollie.html
People in here recomend not to use wild caught ones.. it seems that wild ones accumulate toxins or something like that from their environment...
What I did was this: I caught a whole bunch of them from my backyard... and placed them in a container with clean soil, lots bark, leaves. I left them in there for about 2 months, and they reproduced very fast. I keep them moist (they die If dry out) and feed them almost anything.... I use my dubias roaches skin, or any other dead insect...(NOT sick and stuff)
and also greens, fruits, and stuff...
its good to add some calcium in the food, they seem to grow better and bigger...
once you get the colony going, you can start using the new ones.
My cham loves them... he hasnt been eating them for about a month or so, I dont know why, but I used to feed them a couple of times at week... like Gorgosaurus says.. they are a good calcium source.
Sandrachameleon has a great blog about them, i used all her information for my colony... here it is...
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...orcellio-pillbugs-woodlice-rollie-pollie.html
sandrachameleon
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Make sure you are not offering wild caught ones, but rather captive cultured ones.
I would not use them daily. But as part of a varied diet they are an Excellent prey choice. High calcium, gutloadable, non-infesting and silent
more info:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...orcellio-pillbugs-woodlice-rollie-pollie.html
I would not use them daily. But as part of a varied diet they are an Excellent prey choice. High calcium, gutloadable, non-infesting and silent
more info:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...orcellio-pillbugs-woodlice-rollie-pollie.html
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Gorgosaurus
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Let me make this clear, my Jackson's get them almost daily but as part of a varied diet - mixing in as much wild prey as possible. Captive bred crickets, locusts and giant mealworms are supplemented with wild (and now farmed) woodlice, wild moths, lacewings, flies, grasshoppers and caterpillars. Where I live in the "wilderness" of Denmark there is little reason to be concerned about pesticides. Winter is here now and captive raised food items are increasingly essential, but as soon as Spring is here then we'll be mixing in as much locally caught prey as possible.
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