Moths and waxworms

[skully23]

Weeks ago I purchased wax worms for the first time just so I could have some worms on hand until I bought pheonix worms. Well now that I fed off my wax worms like a week ago.. I have found a suprise in the container I let sit around with the "what looked like dead" wax worms.

I woke up and two moths were buzzing around.
So what do I do with them?
Can they be fed to Charlie?

 

[Lizardlover]

Weeks ago I purchased wax worms for the first time just so I could have some worms on hand until I bought pheonix worms. Well now that I fed off my wax worms like a week ago.. I have found a suprise in the container I let sit around with the "what looked like dead" wax worms.

I woke up and two moths were buzzing around.
So what do I do with them?
Can they be fed to Charlie?

Yes they can great enrichment feeders

 

[xanthoman]

waxmoths- feed or cultivate?

before you feed them off, you may want to consider propogation, since you are already a 1/3 of the way there. wax worms are fairly easy to culture and since the medium is slightly sticky, you wont get grain mites like you will when culturing meal worms. you can use a 50/50 mixture of crushed total cereal and any fortified oats instead of ready brek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXI7uVPZRTE just remember that wax worms should be fed sparingly, waxmoths can be fed a little more often, either way, if you culture, eventually you will have both

 

[skully23]

So if I started culturing waxworms, then it would be ok to feed those?

 

[xanthoman]

waxworms? only occassionaly

no, wax worms should only be fed as an occassional treat, nothing should be fed as the primary diet. the idea is to mix it up as much as possible. the closest thing to a staple and also probably the easiest to culture, would be blaptica dubia roaches, but you still need to supplement with all of the different cham friendly feeders you can come up with,each different feeder adds at least some nutritional components that the others dont have,or at least different ratios. silk worms, silk moths, horn worms, super worms, house and blue bottle flies,crickets, grasshoppers, pheonix worms, some montane keepers even feed their chams snails, and the list goes on and on. and varies according to what you have access to, and yes even the occasional mealworm, waxworm or waxmoth. the idea is to culture a couple of varieties of insects you dont have access to, and order or trade for the rest. like i said earlier, if you were going to raise one type of bug then blaptica dubia roaches would probably be the best to start with, but no matter what you raise, you are still going to need lots of other kinds of bugs