how often do you buy feeders?

[ariana]

right now with 11 leos, at 4 supers every other day, i am going through 500 supers *roughly* every 11 feedings. that doesnt last long, and at $20 for a 500 i was curious as to what everyone was doing. do you buy from a petstore? online? how many supers do you give each feeding and how often do you feed them? thanks

 

[thegeckoguy23]

I breed all my own feeders but every month I seem to be adding a feeder to the list of feeders i breed... About 20 bucks a month but then again I do want to have a feeder farm lolol.



Jake

 

[softballstud_1099]

I feed supers and I get them from Grubco. I know what you mean though. I have 11 also and but I only give my females 2 at a time. Its basically the same as you. But they don't last long do they......Good luck

Brent

 

[gumbii]

i just found out that rainbow mealworms is like 15 minutes from my house... WooT!... so i might start getting superworms...


but i go through about 100 dubia, 100 crix, 50 mealies, and 50 waxworms a week.... um... 7 leos total... oh, and a fantasy frog... i think i'm feeding them too much...

 

[jermh1]

Now I am going through from 200-500 dubia roaches a day and the colony cost less than $20 a month to feed, I would not be able to buy crickets.

 

[NRG]

I have 3 different species of roach I use for feeders so I spend nothing.

 

[Reborn]

of my 19 leos i think i go threw
-25 supers a night
- 24 crickets AT least a night
- 50-70 mealworms a night(left in a dish)
-25 or so "red racers" or dubia roachs depending on who.
- and atleast 40 wax worms a week
I have a few very picky eaters who wont eat this or that. One of mine wont eat anything but crickets where as another wont anything but red racers so i do go threw a bit a night. I dont even wanna THINK about how much i go threw a week@.@

I buy my mealworms(before my colony got started) and superworms(still working on them) from grubco.com great shipping and not a single dead one. I buy my crickets from my pet store as its just a bother to ship them. and i buy my dubia roachs from yourroachguy.com and my red racers from aronpauling.com(i think im not 100% on that as i only needed to order once before my colony got big)

 

[ariana]

thank you guys i will definitely be looking into grubco.com!!

 

[ZooKeeperKarin]

Look into breeding feeders yourself. Especially mealies, it's been so worth it for us, and we only have about 9 geckos right now. I also breed crickets (stinky but also worth it).
I store all the feeders (except crix) right next to the geckos, so it's scoop and go!

 

[ariana]

i have a small mealworm colony going right now, but its still in the works. i have 1tub of baby mealies and another of beatles, sometime next week ill be putting the beatles bedding in another tub to see if i have baby mealies again! i tried to breed supers,but the beatles died and after saving the bedding they were in i waited and added carrots but there werent any baby supers