Your Feeders

[daleo]

well most of mine get mealworms and the occationaly dubia but my adult female gets supers and the occationaly dubia. i also feed waxworm as a treat. i HATE criks so i dont feed them at all.

dale

 

[mrdonovan37]

I feed mostly crix with supplemental mealworms. My baby is the only one that seems super-interested in the MW anyway for some reason. Haven't tried them with the two new additions, but we'll see. Hate the crix because they smell and are such a pain to corral, but the leos love them... and what the leos want, the leos get, haha.

 

[Olimpia]

We have all sorts of different reptiles in the house, so we have mealworms, supers, and crickets. I always have a bowl in my leo cages full of mealworms and then a separate one with a couple superworms so they can eat whenever they want. I know that mealworms aren't as great nutricionally as crickets, but the weight gains I've seen on all my guys now that they are only on worms has been incredible. They have grown exponentially within a month and they look much healthier. So we always keep a couple thousand mealworms and about 500 supers in the house at all times to feed all the guys. And then my girls get pinkies once a week while they're gravid/laying.

I'd get rid of crickets forever but it's the only insect I can give my cresties. And I refuse to make the change to roaches, so crickets will have to do for now.

 

[GeckoHut]

P.worms are maggots. If you feed P.worms to your leos than they are eating maggots!

 

[STUTFL]

And...?
Ah, I see, that was a reply to the other page. :cool4:

 

[Sol]

look at the difference between
Crickets: jmgreptile.com and brightalbino.com
Mealworms: leopardgecko.com and amgecko.com, and tell me who has better geckos.

 

[paulnj]

look at the difference between
Crickets: jmgreptile.com and brightalbino.com
Mealworms: leopardgecko.com and amgecko.com, and tell me who has better geckos.

ALL DO, so what was the point of this post anyway? were you saying the first 2 have lesser animals(The nicest Radars and fatties out there and BRIGHT BELLS, HW, gems.......) or was it the the other group ( we all know thier animals)

 

[leopardgecko94]

breed crickets
somtimes feed
mealworms,
superworms,
waxworms.

 

[Palor]

P.worms are really not worth the hype that goes with them. They are gross little maggots that stink and wiggle. Only my babies will eat them, the adults literally spit them out of their mouth. Plus they are tiny and don't get much bigger than they come, and then there is the fly issue. Yes they turn into flies eventually!! If you want to try maggots out without paying, harvest your own. Set some meat out(just a can of tuna will do) and let it get rotten in the hot sun. Eventually you will get flies swarming on it and laying eggs. Then move it to a cooler place out of the sun like a garage. Check on the meat the next day and you should have maggots. Then wet down some oat bran and gut load them on that. Voila! you have your own maggots except they are probably from a house fly and not the Blowfly which is where P.worms come from. Hope that helps!

Please research before you post.

Phoenix Worms are Soldier Fly Larva. I often let them turn into flies because my anoles love the black wasplike flies.
Feeding reptiles the larva of flies from rotting meat could make your reptiles sick and maybe even kill them. Maggots on rotting meat have high bacterial loads, not a good thing.

 

[lar20]

mealworms i dont plan on ever switching to roaches or crickets as his staple because francly i think they are absolutely repulsive lol

 

[toxictoast96]

luck feeding dubia?

We are currently feeding mealworms and crickets but I find crickets to be absolutely appalling. I think it's the fact that they die rather quickly & bathroom everywhere. I just don't like trying to catch insects from a container that is littered with cricket corpses & poo. I do take the dead ones out but, again, not one of my favorite jobs :main_thumbsdown:

I am thinking of ordering some dubia roaches to start a colony but I am not sure if my leo will like them. Has anyone ever had a gecko that refused to eat them? No pet stores around here sell them so I can't buy a small quantity for Captain Robert to taste test first.

 

[OhioGecko]

We can get you a sample for your gecko. PM me and we'll figure something out.

Our geckos love them and we don't have any that refuse them

 

[CritterCrue]

We have tried
phoenix worms (with no success)
butterworms (they liked em a lot and I usually try to buy a container or two for a different nutritious supplement)
superworms (they didn't like em)
and silkworms (they didn't seem to care for these either, they did grow super fast though to enormous proportions)

My main staple is mealworms but I do feed crickets occasionally for them, now that I got my 7 month old, shes still eating crickets too.

 

[Tony C]

I don't like crickets or superworms or I'd feed them, too. They both gross me out!

My Eclipse from you LOVES his supers, he won't even bother with mealworms anymore.

I keep mealworms, superworms, crickets, and lateralis roaches on hand at all times, and occasionally supplement with waxworms when I can find them. I plan to add dubia roaches, silkworms, and maybe phoenix worms in the near future.

 

[Taquiq]

I use mealworms as a staple.

 

[StopperExotics]

We alternate, with butterworms, waxies (for treats), mealies, and use crickets as a staple.

 

[adam&nikki]

we use crickets as a staple but also use mealies when i run out of crickets ( due to death of crickets) but i treat them with waxies and butters and silks every once and a while but crickets are great they keep you leo active as mealies sit in a bowl and could make your leo gain alot of weight

 

[janjgeckos]

I keep mealworms in their bowls all the time but feed crickets a few times a week because I dust the crickets with repashy for d3. I dont like dusting the mealies seems to cause them to die quicker. I do keep a bowl of cal w/o d3 in tank at all times

 

[RoninSTi]

I have a colony of mealies and dubias that I feed my pets. All of them LOVE the dubias. My Leo refuses supers.

The dubias are by far my favorite. Easy to keep. Easy to handle. No smell. I even think they're kind of cute. My wife (Who hates every kind of bug, especially my tarantula) even likes the dubias. Not to mention they're very nutritious.

Go dubia!!!

 

[Landen]

Mostly mealworms and supers depending on who likes what. I try to feed a mix to all but some are picky. I feed crickets every two weeks. Usually last for 3-4 feedings for the colony. Wax worms are fed occasionally as treats. usually pick some up at each show. Breeding females also get pinky mice for an extra bump before breeding.