I need best food

[Markyj55]

Hi all I need The best food every day feeder other than crix. That Is my staple. For my Jackson, and my Panther.

 

[LLGabriel]

Have you tried dubia roaches or silkworms? They are great feeders. Both pretty easy to breed if you wanted to breed your own.

 

[Markyj55]

Where can I get silks from???

 

[Markyj55]

thanks

 

[LLGabriel]

I've purchased them from Coastalsilkworms & Mulberry Farms websites. If I didn't raise my own now I would purchase from them both again.

 

[Olimpia]

A really good feeder choice are roaches, if you're up for it. You have access to dubia roaches in bulk, which don't fly, climb, or make noise, they live for a year, and breed very easily (give live birth).

They're also meatier, gutload easily, and come in lots of sizes between the time they're born and adult size.

 

[ridgebax1]

A really good feeder choice are roaches, if you're up for it. You have access to dubia roaches in bulk, which don't fly, climb, or make noise, they live for a year, and breed very easily (give live birth).

They're also meatier, gutload easily, and come in lots of sizes between the time they're born and adult size.

They are good but I just can't seem to interest Omar in eating them. I haven't tried offering them to Clouseau yet. He just started recognizing things other that crickets as food.

 

[Olimpia]

How are you offering them? Sometimes it's a lack of movement issue, although it's true that some chams just never like them.

 

[ridgebax1]

I have tried just putting them into a bowl and you're right they just huddle together and don't move, therefore they don't exist! I also tried the bowl with a stick but again they climb onto the stick but just stay there and the "sunny D" feeder.

 

[Olimpia]

Try throwing a couple superworms in the bowl with them, since superworms are active and like following the edge of the container they end up crawling under the roaches and making them move. If not, perhaps try tong/hand feeding? Squeezing them makes their little legs flail around. Or along that same thought, try grabbing one and flipping it onto its back in the food bowl. They will flail around and might attract his attention better.

 

[reptoman]

For Dubia, I found its easier to put them on the branches or on the top screen so they pick them off right away while they are moving. Once you get them used to eating dubia it will get easier. Switch up your fruit/veggie gutload to keep them interested as well. It changes the taste. Cup feeding with dubia does not always work very well fro the reasons you describe.