Silk worms and butter worms

[ronnie]

AHHHHH.....God knows i must love this little lady!!i am the kind of person who up until 4 months ago would freak out at the site of a daddy long legs or spiders(even small ones!!)so ...Trixxis new feeders came today and i gave her 3 silkies and 2 butterworms(is this enough??)she loved them....came straight down the vine looking more!she usually has 5-6 crickets and 2 locusts a day gut loaded with carrots,apple,orange.......is this the right amount to be giving her???

 

[PantherVeileD]

It doesn't really matter... to me... I usually feed about 3-4 silkworms.. and they snatch it real quick I will give more.. If they hesitate them I stop feeding..

 

[Miss Lily]

Lol, yeah Ronnie - I know JUST what you mean! Before I got Lily I couldn't even pick up a tub of locusts or crickets to get to a tub of mealworms underneath! I would have to ask the pet shop assistant to pick the tubs up for me! Tweezers become your best friend, and now I hand feed locusts, but I still can't bring myself to touch those nasty crickets! Eww!

I'm not sure how many silkies an butterworms you should be feeding her. I know that silkies can be used as a staple along with crickets, locusts and superworms. Not sure about the butterworms though - never bought any of them. I thought they were too expensive especially if Lily didn't like them! What size silkies did you buy and how big are the butterworms?

 

[ronnie]

Hi...thanks for the replies.....here are some pic's of her new feeders so you can get a look at the size...sorry if its a crappy picture....i've never taken photos of worms before!...some of the butter worms are reals heaps!!

 

[sandrachameleon]

I wouldnt hesitate to feed a couple appropriately sized silkworms per day to an adult chameleon. I think of one fat silkworm as equivalent to two or three crickets, a fat butterworm like 2 crickets. So long as there are crickets or superworms or roaches in the diet at least once a week instead, to provide chinton, you can use a lot of silkworms. Butterworms I'd limit to twice a week, just as I would limit superworms to twice a week, as Both butters and supers are fatty.
A nice meal plan might be
Day 1: silkworms
Day 2: crickets or locusts or roaches
Day 3: butterworms or superworms
Day 4: Silkworms
Day 5: cricket or locusts or roaches
Day 7: enrichment bug (something different from the rest of the week, like a hornworm, moth or woodsow)

 

[ronnie]

Thanks Sandra...i have been checking out your blog(which is fantastic!!)i shall try out the plan above and see how she goes P....whats a woodsow?

 

[Miss Lily]

Woodlouse or pill bug (roly poly) in the UK.

 

[ronnie]

Woodlouse or pill bug (roly poly) in the UK.

AHHHH thats even worse than roaches!!!

 

[sandrachameleon]

AHHHH thats even worse than roaches!!!

really!? I kinda like them. Cute little things. Small, quiet, dont bite, eat most anything. They make a really good enrichment feeder (high in calcium, much enjoyed by chameleons), and r not hard to breed.

https://www.chameleonforums.com/isopods-16457/
http://www.nilesbio.com/prod94.html

 

[sandrachameleon]

Thanks Sandra...i have been checking out your blog(which is fantastic!!)

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