Hornworm help please im impatient

[chameleoman]

does any one know what food will make a hornworm grow really fast??? im using them for breeding so tomatoes will be fine im guessing

 

[Thompson]

They grow fast just fine with the chow that is made for them. Just add heat and they grow huge in days.

 

[chameleoman]

ive had them for a while and silkworm chow is the diet and they arent growing big

 

[Thompson]

Well what are your temps like?

 

[chameleoman]

Idk but the chow always stays moist and there are tiny airhole 4 them to breathe but I don't know the exact temp

 

[Thompson]

Check your temps. Maybe you're keeping them too cool. I keep mine usually at 80-85 degrees and they grow like weeds.

 

[Miss Machine]

Don't feed tomatoeplants..they're toxic! Only the tomatoes are edible and non-toxic.

 

[madchameleon]

I've read tomatoes are toxic to feed to reptiles.

 

[Drew V]

the leaves are, the fruit "tomato itself" isn't, i believe. So you can feed them tomato's or if theyre just for breeding leaves or whatever you want. i picked a bunch off the tomato plants in my garden to breed.

 

[DocFox]

I'd avoid tomato or pepper

I ran out of chow once and fed the worms tomato and bell pepper until I could get more chow. It makes their poop very, very wet, and makes a horrible mess. It really is all about the heat. But I did get a shipment once where the worms didn't grown, and then they died. It was inexplicable, in that there was nothing visually wrong. But when I told the vendor, they replaces it, so it must happen on occassion.

 

[chameleoman]

they are just for breeding