Colin
New Member
Hi everybody, I'm planning to breed my own hornworms in future and as I havn't got access to providers of the needed chow (nowhere to buy in europe...), I was thinking about mixing the stuff myself. So I searched the net and found these links, check them out:
-http://www.entm.purdue.edu/Entomology/outreach/recipe/artificialdiet.pdf
-http://www.springerlink.com/content/q711063005372r57/fulltext.pdf?page=1
-http://www.manducaproject.com/ (preparing diet-> Manduca diet mix)
Now, all the ingredients are easy to get hold of for me as I work in a biotech lab. But these recipes are made to raise hornworms for research, not ment to feed them to chams. So, does anybody know which ingredients have to be replaced by others or should be left out at all if you plann to use the worms for feeding? Has someone got theire own recipe for a artifical diet that works? Does someone know what the chow you can buy is made off? Would be great to know this, thanks....
-http://www.entm.purdue.edu/Entomology/outreach/recipe/artificialdiet.pdf
-http://www.springerlink.com/content/q711063005372r57/fulltext.pdf?page=1
-http://www.manducaproject.com/ (preparing diet-> Manduca diet mix)
Now, all the ingredients are easy to get hold of for me as I work in a biotech lab. But these recipes are made to raise hornworms for research, not ment to feed them to chams. So, does anybody know which ingredients have to be replaced by others or should be left out at all if you plann to use the worms for feeding? Has someone got theire own recipe for a artifical diet that works? Does someone know what the chow you can buy is made off? Would be great to know this, thanks....
