Jasper gettin dinner!!

[renzo0684]

I am going to ask a question along with these pictures... He seems to like supers a lot more than crickets. How many supers would equal a medium/large cricket?

 

[beeze]

Jasper's growing and cute too. You got some nice shots of him!

 

[pssh]

Super worms should be fed as treats only otherwise they get tubby and stop eating crickets all together. It really depends on the size of the superworm as well as the size of the crickets. I feed 2 or so once a week to Pan as a treat.

 

[OldSkoolxReasons]

All of my chameleons prefer supers over crickets also. Heres a chart showing the average adult size of the most common feeders, it also shows how many are needed to eqaul one of the giant hornworms at its full size.(It's the chart from the great lakes hornworm homepage) It always helps me to figure out how many food items to feed. I just don't feed them supers very often due to the risk of impaction caused by the chitin in the supers shells. But they are nice as a treat or a once a week feeder. You should try feeding silkworms or hornworms, just about every cham goes nuts over those things. I once feed superworms for 3 days to one of my adult males and he didn't eat anything else for 4 days. Finally I got him to eat a 4 1/2 inch 12g hornworm that was about to cacoon. I don't know what it is about the supers but they are like drugs for chams. lol. So to answer your question supers are almost the weight of 2 adult cricket, but not quite.

Weight Per Insect
(Adult Size) Quantity Needed
to Equal 11g-12g
Hornworm 11.000g 1

Cricket 0.333g 36

Superworm 0.595g 20

Mealworm 0.160g 70

Silkworm 3.000g 4

Waxworm 0.298g 40

 

[whitespyder]

jasper is a cutie! i love the coloring in his face

thats an interesting chart, i was wondering about that myself.

 

[jannb]

Jasper looks so cute eating his dinner!