im thinking on using silk worms need info
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Will Hayward
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hermie loves silk worms and does refuse his crickets most of the time... but then again I started feeding them BECAUSE he wouldn't eat crickets. He just loves worms and this was one of the most nutritious ones that I could find for him.
i'm a big fan of these "cups of silkworms" that you can buy. They come with like 50 in a cup with the food and everything. I just bought a petri dish of 500 eggs (I think) and so far they have hatched and are eating and slowly growing. If this works out since Hermie is such an addict I think I will probably goes this route as it's cheaper, but the cups are good for a 'I need 'em now" type situation when you don't want to wait.
i'm a big fan of these "cups of silkworms" that you can buy. They come with like 50 in a cup with the food and everything. I just bought a petri dish of 500 eggs (I think) and so far they have hatched and are eating and slowly growing. If this works out since Hermie is such an addict I think I will probably goes this route as it's cheaper, but the cups are good for a 'I need 'em now" type situation when you don't want to wait.
jvillereptile
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coastal silkworms sells them by the cup and they are well worth it. i order 500 small silkworms and got about a 1000. it was to many to handle but my chameleons enjoyed it. do to the fact that they eat a lot. now i have a couple hundred eggs in my fridge.
I've ordered them (cups) from coastal and mullberry. Personally I think that I perfer coastal. I just got a cup from mullberry -- they were supposed to be 1 inch worms, but are really more like a quarter inch, so I have to wait for them to grow up. But mullberry had a great deal on wax worms (not fed as a staple I know). 250 for 9.95 ... they sell for 10 cents a worm around here.
I ordered a petri dish of 500 eggs from coastal for 9.95 ... and they hatched and are growing .. I'm excited! Hermie is going to be in heaven.
I ordered a petri dish of 500 eggs from coastal for 9.95 ... and they hatched and are growing .. I'm excited! Hermie is going to be in heaven.
jvillereptile
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you know if you feed your silkworms fresh mullberry leaves they grow faster then the dry food. let me know if you need any i'll ship some to you at the cost of shipping and package. i did the same for 2by2 and he said they came in pretty good only a few were bad and i gave him a big gallon size bag packed
Will Hayward
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Silkworms come in all sizes. I feed my pygmy chameleons silkworms even.psyensics said:
Patrickn
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I am keeping pygmy chams too. How big the silkworm you feed to your pygmies? It is good for their health? Thankyou.
PukaKeha
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Thats a great article.
If they will ship the eggs into Hawaii Im going to give raising my own a shot.