Phoenix worms problem

[packs_fan]

I feed my one gecko all phoenix worms and he purged them. The others that i had feed to another one purged them. Does anyone have any idea whats going on? Is that normal to happen with phoenix worms? Or should I only feed very few phoenix worms to them?

 

[MSMD]

If they eat too much of anything at one time, they tend to regurgitate. They generally tend to do this with new/novel food items. The best thing to do is only offer several at a time.

 

[bitterbeauty]

I tried phoenix worms with my geckos and at first they all ate them because they were something new and different and I noticed when they were chewing they chewed weird and one even spit it out. I think phoenix worms taste gross or the substrate they are kept in taste bad. I only have 1 out of 4 geckos that will eat them.

 

[nats]

Only my female would eat them, and as you say, it was because they where something new. Anyway, she quit eating them, and my male wont touch them.
I ended up feeding them to the birds (the worms I mean, not the leos!!) :main_laugh:

 

[bitterbeauty]

Yeah lol I have two turtles that pretty much anything. So whatever the leos dont like they end up with. They are my bug garbage disposal.