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post #1 of 17
9/12/11 at 4:04am
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I offered live crickets for my juvenile bobs last night...I LOVED watching them slowly stalk & the BAM nab & swallow them whole wee I fall in love with these guys more & more every day love I know mealworms are fine but crickets are, too, right? What about waxworms/beemoths?

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Tortoise.

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post #2 of 17
9/12/11 at 6:29am

always remember this....bobwhites are still out in the wild, so they can pretty much have any bugs they would encounter out in the wild.

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 Wife, 2 sons, 2 dogs, 2 Coturnix Quails, and  4 Black & Mottled Bantam Cochins. Getting ready to move to France, pm me if you live over there!

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post #3 of 17
9/12/11 at 8:08am

would superworms work?

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Breeder of: Danish Brown Leghorns, Pekin ducks, Spanish black turkeys, and mealworms. Shorty adding: Peafowl, and Superworms, Order your Chicks, eggs and Adult birds today!

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post #4 of 17
9/12/11 at 8:34am
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would superworms work?


I've come across a lot that suggests superworms are bad for the animals due to how they are raised.  Hormones I guess you could say for the size.

I have geckos and chose to go with regular mealworms.  and an occasional wax worm as a treat.  They are fattening.

I raise all my own mealworms, so I know my animals are eating healthy snacks.

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post #5 of 17
9/12/11 at 12:47pm
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BUT! Superworms are their own species of beetle. I have a Superworm colony in my waxy monkey treefrog habitat, also a meal worm colony...& cricket colony...LOL Because my monkey frogs are picky eaters. I got curious & I researched the species of beetle the Superworms turn in to & it is a type of darkling beetle from South America. They are not hormoned-up mealworms, to my knowledge.

My hubby & I actually encourage the beetles to reproduce by feeding & watering them in the substrate at the bottom of my vivarium because we like watching the growth stages! big_smile

Banty Cochins, mille fleur D'Uccles, salmon Faverolles.

Bobwhite quail pair.

Parrots.

Dogs.

Tortoise.

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Banty Cochins, mille fleur D'Uccles, salmon Faverolles.

Bobwhite quail pair.

Parrots.

Dogs.

Tortoise.

Reply
post #6 of 17
9/12/11 at 1:07pm

Maybe I'm confusing them with another similar to the meal worm, and larger .
I know there is one out there that is suggest as not to feed geckos due to steroids they are given.

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post #7 of 17
9/12/11 at 1:08pm
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BUT! Superworms are their own species of beetle. I have a Superworm colony in my waxy monkey treefrog habitat, also a meal worm colony...& cricket colony...LOL Because my monkey frogs are picky eaters. I got curious & I researched the species of beetle the Superworms turn in to & it is a type of darkling beetle from South America. They are not hormoned-up mealworms, to my knowledge.

My hubby & I actually encourage the beetles to reproduce by feeding & watering them in the substrate at the bottom of my vivarium because we like watching the growth stages! big_smile


Is the superworm another name for a king mealworm? They have those over here, and yeah, they are definitely they're own species, though I think they are related to the beetle the mealworm turns into. Can't remember the name of the beetle off the top of my head, but I do remember researching and finding that big_smile

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Japanese quail in the pic is Nightingale, one of the two quail at my college (named Sparrow and Nightingale )
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post #8 of 17
9/12/11 at 1:11pm

O.K.
Now it's bugging me and I will have to figure out which one it is I'm thinking of.  hmm

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post #9 of 17
9/12/11 at 1:36pm

I've heard that Superworms are mealworms treated with hormones also and that they will never pupate into beetle.

I wonder if we are thinking of two separate things and that it's all marketing and dependent upon where you get them.

I've also seen tomato horn worms (UGH!) for sale at the reptile store.  But supposedly, you can't feed tomato horn worms from your garden to reptiles because tomato plants are toxic to reptiles.  At least that's what the reptile store guy said.

Sorry, but all of them give me the willies! tongue

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post #10 of 17
9/12/11 at 1:58pm

O.K.
I did find this about Giant Mealworms..Maybe they are what I was thinking of.  It was over a year ago I did all the searches for our geckos. lol..

http://www.wormman.com/pd_giant.cfm

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