Superworms

[RhettusMaximus]

I just bought some superworms and i'm wondering how i should go about gutloading them. Any help from the superworm enthusiasts would be appreciated (Brad Ramsey). Do i put the food i wish to fill their bellies with in a dish with the bedding or take the worms out and put them in a dish with the gutload? Does it matter?

 

[Chase]

1/4 cup oatmeal (regular with no sugar)
1/4 cup corn flakes (regular with no sugar)
15 baby carrots cut into slices
10+ cranberries (can use apples,grapes, bilberry, blackberry, blueberry, cherry, raspberry, apples, plums, and red cabbage)
also 1/8 cup of romaine lettuce.

It sounds weird but It works.

They love this stuff!!!!


Make sure you grind it up in like a blinder type thing. Or cut it into little pieces.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

I just bought some superworms and i'm wondering how i should go about gutloading them. Any help from the superworm enthusiasts would be appreciated (Brad Ramsey). Do i put the food i wish to fill their bellies with in a dish with the bedding or take the worms out and put them in a dish with the gutload? Does it matter?

It doesn't matter.
I use the worm food from www.cricketfood.com plus apple and carrot peelings dark greens squash and sweet potato.
Ronnie Bucks worm food is really good (same as the cricket and roach gut loads ... just ground courser)

-Brad

 

[RhettusMaximus]

blah

so in theory i could just smash up some cricket gutload and put it in the bedding it'll work the same?

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Why do you need to smash it up?
What are you feeding your crickets?
Superworms will eat anything. (they're like Mikey)
Fill them with what you want to end up in your chameleon.

-Brad

 

[RhettusMaximus]

paste

i figure they like it pastey... just like ME!!!!

 

[MWheelock]

I like to use dry rice babyfood mixed with bran cereal. Then I use carrot or sweetpotato for moisture. I find that they do pretty well in this mixture.

I have also heard of people using chicken egg-laying (good source of Vit A) feed as the dry and apples or sweet potatoes. (Trick the vet at the San Antonio Zoo does.)

Matthew


More than one way to skin a potato (I like cats...)

 

[chamlover]

When i feed my superworms i use a seperate dish, trying to keep it out of the dry stuff so it doesn't get moldy. That happened once and i lost a bunch of them. So now i give them a seperate dish with their food and fruit or potato and change it everyday. Am i going through too much work? Should i just put it in? They actually end up with most of it in their bedding anyway.

 

[chris]

for bedding i use finely ground up chicken feed with about an inch of gutload on top. for moisture pick whatever fruit or vegetable it is you like to use. depending on how many supers you have in your container is how often you change your bedding. the good thing about chicken feed is it is lighter in color than the gutload and is a good indicator of when the bedding needs to be changed. darker it is the more poop is in there. usually bedding change every 1 or 2 weeks.

 

[JimNPHX]

I ordered 1000 from Mulberry and they are due today. Any tips for set-up/feeding/care for that large amount?

I will probably only go through about 50 a week. Will they keep until I run out? For $.03 a piece you can't go wrong! (Is it even worth trying to raise them when they are that cheap to buy?)

Thanks
Jim

 

[chris]

depends on their size. adult superworms about 500 in 6qt plastic shoebox should be fine. if you are not planning on using very many of them you can just put the 50 you use a week in a smaller separate container of gutload. save a little money on that $$$ gutload.

 

[lonomac]

I got the same 1000 order from mulberry a month ago and still have a lot. I used the 3 plastic drawers that cost like $16 at Walmart. I did have an issue with lots of the getting out at first but I think thats because I put too much oats in the bottom making it easier for them to climb out. They do climb a lot....