Urgent Help! Superworms

[ChameleonKing1911]

I just fed my chameleon some live superworms that were feeding of off cornmeal from the store, is cornmeal okay for him to eat? Is cornmeal poisonous to chameleons HELP!

 

[ridgebax1]

As far as I know it is ok to feed supers and mealies right out of their bedding. Many folks still gutload these feeders just like they do the other bugs they use for feeders. I think they will eat stuff like fresh greens like collards, mustard and turnip greens as well as shredded carrots. Sandrachameleon has a very complete blog about gutloading different types of feeder insects.

 

[xephyr17]

Cornmeal is fine. You don't have to gutload supers to my knowledge.

Not a good staple diet, I might add.

Try roaches. They rock.

 

[laurie]

Cornmeal is fine. You don't have to gutload supers to my knowledge.

Not a good staple diet, I might add.

Try roaches. They rock.

I always gutloaded supers. Greens and assorted other veggies and fruit, just like my crickets and dubia.

 

[ridgebax1]

Supers and mealies are not good staple feeders. I compare them to McDonald's French fries, tasty but not really good for you. That is another reason they should be gutloaded properly.

 

[xephyr17]

Even after gut loading they can't be staples though, can they?

 

[junglefries]

Rule of thumb: always keep your newly purchased feeders for 24 hours on your substrate and gutload before feeding to your reptile. This should be a mandatory law in your keeping, punishable by....... (Proactive not Reactive)

 

[junglefries]

Even after gut loading they can't be staples though, can they?

I only use maybe one or two a week. Freshly molted white ones, kept on bran flakes. Given oranges, organic Spring Mix Salad Mix (radicchio, endive, watercress, romaine, baby kale, escarole...) They eat it like nothing I have ever seen. Completely gone in hours.

 

[sandrachameleon]

I just fed my chameleon some live superworms that were feeding of off cornmeal from the store, is cornmeal okay for him to eat? Is cornmeal poisonous to chameleons HELP!

not poisonous, but also not very nutritious. Worry not. Just gutload better nexttime and dont offer too many of them (i suggest keep supers and mealworms under 20% of total diet)

 

[sandrachameleon]

You don't have to gutload supers to my knowledge.

You dont have to gutload anything - but you should. Superworms can be gutloaded, they just dont have the capacity of things like crickets and roaches.

Even after gut loading they can't be staples though, can they?

not recommended for supers to be staples.

Indeed I would suggest the word staple be eliminated from your (meaning anyone's) routine. Have no single prey type make up the bulk of the diet - instead go for wide variety, at least 5 different feeder prey types rotated.

 

[xephyr17]

You dont have to gutload anything - but you should. Superworms can be gutloaded, they just dont have the capacity of things like crickets and roaches.



not recommended for supers to be staples.

Indeed I would suggest the word staple be eliminated from your (meaning anyone's) routine. Have no single prey type make up the bulk of the diet - instead go for wide variety, at least 5 different feeder prey types rotated.

Right.

I'm working on getting a load of different colonies going. Roaches are all I got right now, and I buy the rest of my cham's diet