That settles it !! I want to get a male so Lucky has a boyfriend ( and I have a son ... lol )
Oh , and so you all don't think I'm not well today :
How lucky is "Lucky" if she can't get lucky?
The Jackson Nine
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How lucky is "Lucky" if she can't get lucky?
Red7ny1
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armyrec1
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The packaging was excellent. The ventilated box was awesome! As soon as we opened it, he crawled right out. LOL
FedEx delivered at @ 10:15, and delivery was to be made NLT 10:30, so they did well. The worst part was that there was about 2 hours of us looking out the window waiting for the FedEx truck. : ) The only thing I didn't like is that they just left it on the doorstep and knocked. There was no signature needed, but I'm sure that if I would have paid extra on shipyourreptiles, I could have gotten that, so that is probably my fault.
Please tell Debbie we said Thank you.
Hello adoptive parents. Hey, tell me about silk worms. First, I loathe crickets, but I can handle it, 1500 at a time (but Deb might kill me while I'm sleeping). The only time we bought silk worms was for practice, and ended up with VERY fat tree frogs and a bunch of silk that we spun off. It seemed impossible to get only a few at a time, unless you hatch the eggs in batches. The silkworms are alot less stinky, but I have no idea how they compare to crickets in nutritional content nor how they handle free-ranging in the cage. Can you all provide some info?
armyrec1
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We love the silks. As far as we know they are great as staple. In our opinion they are clean, I worry about the risk of crickets that are bought as you dont know where they have been/eaten...and they do smell lol. Oh and they always manage to escape and then chirp all night.
There are no hard skeletal structures, so we think they are easier to digest.
We have eggs in our incubator, then we have a small three drawer set up, tiny worms at the bottom, medium ones in the middle and large one in the top. We also have a box for worms that are ready to cocoon. Filled with cardboard tubes and a shoe box of cocoons that will hatch, breed and then we collect the eggs, put them in the fridge and start all over again.
They do need cleaning everyday and eat lots. We buy the dry food for but are waiting on a mulberry tree to arrive in hope of having fresh, home grown leaves in the future.
We started with a batch of 500, hatched them and actually sold some off, swapped some with another breeder for gecko food...we just sorted Camimom out with a packet of 200 for her babies.
We would highly recommend keeping them. They dont take up much space, you have them on hand....and by the way...."JAX" (SOA) is what we have choosen to name our new baby....and he lovessssss silkworms.
We dab them with calcium, and sit them on a branch, today he didn't even give Ken time to take his arm out the cage before he eat it lol. Oh and silks don't bite so we are never bothered about losing one free range. Although they don't normally leave any that we feed lol.
Its what we will be using when our eggs hatch. We also have a Dubai colony.
Jax has showed us some greens, he seems to have settled down
thegreatfantasmo
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Those little ones are so cute! They look happy and curious. Congrats on your new additions
DekuScrub
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just took the pics joe! ill have em up in no time flat. i was trying to have a couple girls hand model for me and the one was deathly afraid of the crickets so the other one offered to hold the cup.......20 seconds later one jumped out and the chill girl panicked and threw them ALLLLLLL over the couch.
i was trying to get a shot with full tongue extension, but yall know how cameras are....
i was trying to get a shot with full tongue extension, but yall know how cameras are....
Hey, thanks for the photos. So proud to see my kids so well cared for and loved. The babies are so cute even the teenaged girls who come through here love to hold them, but I said NO to them adopting babies, as it would have been a death sentence.
And the silkies sound like too much trouble. It was fun to spin the silk and to play with the soft worms, but I can handle the crickets if I clean the stinky cages........................Thanks!!!
And the silkies sound like too much trouble. It was fun to spin the silk and to play with the soft worms, but I can handle the crickets if I clean the stinky cages........................Thanks!!!
We love the silks. As far as we know they are great as staple. In our opinion they are clean, I worry about the risk of crickets that are bought as you dont know where they have been/eaten...and they do smell lol. Oh and they always manage to escape and then chirp all night.
There are no hard skeletal structures, so we think they are easier to digest.
We have eggs in our incubator, then we have a small three drawer set up, tiny worms at the bottom, medium ones in the middle and large one in the top. We also have a box for worms that are ready to cocoon. Filled with cardboard tubes and a shoe box of cocoons that will hatch, breed and then we collect the eggs, put them in the fridge and start all over again.
They do need cleaning everyday and eat lots. We buy the dry food for but are waiting on a mulberry tree to arrive in hope of having fresh, home grown leaves in the future.
We started with a batch of 500, hatched them and actually sold some off, swapped some with another breeder for gecko food...we just sorted Camimom out with a packet of 200 for her babies.
We would highly recommend keeping them. They dont take up much space, you have them on hand....and by the way...."JAX" (SOA) is what we have choosen to name our new baby....and he lovessssss silkworms.
We dab them with calcium, and sit them on a branch, today he didn't even give Ken time to take his arm out the cage before he eat it lol. Oh and silks don't bite so we are never bothered about losing one free range. Although they don't normally leave any that we feed lol.
Its what we will be using when our eggs hatch. We also have a Dubai colony.
Jax has showed us some greens, he seems to have settled down
When your eggs hatch------when will the blessed event be? Honestly, fruit flies are as clean and easy as possible, but you have to plan a month ahead. I would grow them in half gallon jars (hydeii, not melanogaster) and the babies would climb across the jars on chopsticks eating the bugs by the dozens.
armyrec1
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The eggs were laid on Apr 4, so we are guessing a minimum of 7 1/2 - 9 months before they begin to hatch.
Any chance you could give us some pointers on starting our own fruit fly cultures please?
DekuScrub
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youd be surprised how smart some teenage girls are. and if you give them some aim or direction, something to be responsible for. it will really change the way they think about everything.
as long as youre around for them to fall back on i think they would be just fine.
camimom
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BocaJan
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I have a blog on making a culture and doing your own cultures. I don't suggest leaving out fruit to get fruit flies, but get hydei flies from a reptile store to populate your first several containers. The ones you get from leaving out a banana or other fruit are flying fruit flies and will drive you nuts! You will have flies all over your house if you do it that way. Only propagate hydei with the red eyes.
armyrec1
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Oh thanks for the advice
I think we will give it ago, while we have time before our eggs are due.
Awesome
Cami, thanks for posting. This is the old stud himself, Jermaine.
camimom
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Army, easy as pie. I got supplies from Carolina Biologic for culture medium, then bought local flightless D.hydeii to populate the jars, using half gallon Mason jars or any other container with a reliable lid. The life cycle is about a month, and one jar populated can be used to culture out a dozen more. Don't use wild-caught flighted flies, as they are D. melanogaster, too small, and will drive you nuts!! The flies are like candy to the hatchlings. You'd have to start about 2-3 months before expected hatching to prepare, but since you can do silkworms then the flies are no problem. Interested? I can walk you through it.
okiroo
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Im a teenage girl
got my first cham when i just turned 17 and its only been a year now that i have too many. lol. i also have kept fishtanks and reptiles my entire life. but i understand you being choosey on people. i would be to. i wuddnt trust many if any of my peers with my animals.Funny story---I was in lab counting anesthetized fruit flies for a genetics experiment, when a miracle occurred--- "Dave" our resident pain in the arse bent over right in front of me to tie his shoe, so **PUFF* I blew 600 sleeping fruit flies into his big white guy afro!! 30 years later I still crack up thinking about him back at the dorms later that night, swatting ang swatting...... Ahhh, sweet memories of Drysophila........
