It took some of my chams a week or so to get used to silkworms, or even try them for that matter. Most of them tried the right away though and since then they all love them now except my one picky adult who will eat them only once a week. The good thing is that once they cocoon you can feed off the moths that hatch out. My chams go nuts for them, especially the fat female moths. I think its because the wing go crazy on the moths. I stick a male and female together so they begin to mate, once they start mating you have to twist them to separate them so I stick them together on the screen and when my guys grab one they get two for one. Plus they get quite large and it will take fewer to fill him up then crickets or supers. Plus they are high in calcium and not very fatty as opposed to the supers. he'll still need some crunchy food for chitin though, at least once a week if not every feeding. I usually give 4 big silkies and and 2 large discoid nymphs or adult female dubia as a meal for my adult female and male panthers when I'm using worms more regularly. If I think they need to put on weight I feed 2 of the biggest hornworms they can handle, usually full sized worms for full sized chams, 2 supers and 2 roaches of appropriate size. I use larger roaches if they are freshly molted as they are easy to swallow. I only have one cham that still feed on phoenix worms, he is just under 4 months. My 5 month old won't even look at them anymore. But if you can get them to eat them they are pretty high in calcium so use less calcium dust on them. Good luck.
Justin
I use Coastal Silk Worms.
