Feeder Rankings

[bohannbj]

Thought I would pose a question on rankings for feeders. I base my system on
1. Nutritional value
2. Ease to feed
3. Ease of keeping
4. Cost
5. Desire to have in my house

Mine go:
1. Silkworms
2. Butterworms
3. Superworms
4. Waxworms
5. Mealworms
6. Roaches
7. Crickets
8. Phoenixworms

I only feed 1-5. Just can't deal with roaches.

 

[Wild West Reptile]

I only use 4 feeders. But if I could rank them in order of what I'd prefer to use it would be as follows:
1. Silkworms (best nutrition by far, don't run away...but hard to maintain colonies due to lack of mulberry leaves available all year....chow is expensive)
2. mealworms (easy to leave in dish....most of my geckos won't touch them)
3. crickets (better nutrition than mealies, more filling, AFT's LOVE them....kinda stink, get loose and are noisy)
4. superworms (good way to bulk up your breeders....escape dishes alot, could be harmful to smaller geckos)

Anyways, that is what I would love to use in that order. Unfortunately it's mostly crickets right now. Although I do have a good supply of silk's because it's summer time!

 

[GrimmyX15]

1#
I'd use only superworms, they are fairly easy to clean, parasite free and doesnt stink like crickets. They have soft exoskeleton and easy for my nemo to eat them and they would escape often but they packed with proteins. They wiggle enough to make my nemo want to eat them! Sometimes they get expenvise to buy cause they are "big in size" or maybe "super".

2#I would use mealworms sometimes but too hard exo for my gecko to digest. they are fairly easy like superworms. My nemo wont touch mealworms, they dont really move alot.
cheap.



I will never feed my gecko crickets ever again cause of what happened to my first gecko, she got parasite from them and was treated but later died... I dont want to risk on my precious second gecko. Nemo was only on phoeix worms and superworms, sometimes waxworms for treat.

 

[Taquiq]

1- Superworms- easy to care for, you don't have to feed a lot of them at a time, relatively inexpensive, and relatively easy to breed.

2- Mealworms- easy to breed and inexpensive

These are the two feeders that I use.