Hornworm feeding (how many & how often?)

[AdamChameleon]

Just wondering how many and how often can these be fed to your Chams. I just got a shipment from Mulberry Farms and in about 5 days they have basically doubled in size. They may get too big for Darwin before I get to feed them all off to him.

Currently I have been giving him one every other day... he really loves them and chows down as soon as I place one in his cage. Thanks

Oh yeah, Darwin is a 3 mo old Panther.

 

[jannb]

Since Darwin is only 3 months old I would only feed him small hornworms and maybe 3 a day. Those worms have such a grip I've had one get stuck in the back of one of the females throat and she had to have assistance getting it down and it was not a large one either. I only feed the large ones to my parsonii.

 

[chameleongirl2]

ill agree, he is only 3 months old, when my cham was that age i just gave her 1 or 2 a day, sometimes i didn't even give her any!! lol.

 

[Maurer3D]

I only offer these as a treat, since they have a pretty high fat content. When I have them its usually 1 on Monday and 1 on Friday.

 

[AdamChameleon]

Thanks everyone. So far they are less than an inch long, but were about 1/2" when I got them last week. Only bought 25 of them as a test to see if he would like them... guess the answer is YES!

I will keep to just giving him 1 every couple of days. If they start to out grown him I'll offer them up to members here who would like them for their larger Chams

Adam

 

[lindawaz]

Put them in the fridge for 2 days- slows them down on eating and growing- take them out for a day then repeat as needed. Doing this I can keep 50 for 2 weeks at about 1.5-2 inches. I leave a few in another container to get those only large. Good Luck