phoenix worms/houdini worms!

[JSERBIN]

any suggestions on how to keep these escape artists in one spot long enough for my cham to find them? i have a curved top worm dish which holds in my butter worms and occasional mealworm with no problemo but put about 7 phoenix in same dish came back about an hour later dish empty and phoenix worms in the plants dirt, on the floor and everywhere else but my chams belly! any tricks or advice would definitely make my cham happy. a few fell between the rocks i have over the soil in the plants pot, what will they eventually become if they survive,flies,moths, or are they just worms?

 

[Dave]

"Phoenix Worms" are the larva of the Black Soldier Fly. They are quite the lil crawlers. I actually built a BSF farm out of a 5 gallon bucket and some PVC tubing going up the sides where the larva would crawl up and out of the bucket into a little container outside of it.

If I can figure this phone out, and brave the cold long enough, I'll try to show you what I'm talking about, but yes, they are crawling larva, they can't go vertical though, but part of their maturity process is when they get ready to pupate, they crawl out of their food (compost generally) and into a dry place to pupate. It's in their nature to crawl out of things

-Dave
SPF

 

[Stacy3601]

I put mine in a little plastic cup like what they come in. As long as it's clean they can't crawl out. My baby Cham just loves them! Soon as I put them in he climbs over and eats them up.

I need to make sure he is chewing them though. If your cham does not chew them they can pass right threw without being digested