What are your opinions on Superworms?

[ISA my Veiled]

So I wanted to know your opinion on supers. I currently for variety have crickets, dubia(colony in progress), wax worms(occasionally) and I have bought supers the past couple of times I went to the petstore. I am thinking about breeding them because they are relatively easy to breed. But as far as a feeder, how often do you guys include them in your Chameleons diet and how many at one time? I have been giving them to her, about 4 a week I would say maybe a couple more give or take. She loves them, hasnt shied away from eating anything else so that is good. Just wanted opinions.

 

[ISA my Veiled]

OH and with the supers I also feed geckos and beardies....just saying lol

 

[KarmaChameleon1337]

Too many causes impaction, they have a hard shell. I believe they shouldn't be more than 20% of your cham's diet.

 

[twatts704]

I feed my guys superworms as treats not a diet. I use crickets and dubias for their diets.

 

[ISA my Veiled]

Too many causes impaction, they have a hard shell. I believe they shouldn't be more than 20% of your cham's diet.

Yeah I know this, its not like its going to be an everyday thing.

I feed my guys superworms as treats not a diet. I use crickets and dubias for their diets.

I do as well but its good to get something else in there, my beardies and Leos love them

 

[Lathelia]

I like them a lot. We don't have other worms in Poland (exept wax worms which I buy only once a couple of weeks/months). I belive they shouldn't be fed more then every other day, because of a high content of fat. I give them to my female only after I weight her, and if she hadn't gain, I offer her one.

Too many causes impaction, they have a hard shell. I believe they shouldn't be more than 20% of your cham's diet.

If you are worried about the hard shell you can feed a super to your cham after it sheds, they are white and soft

 

[jannb]

I keep supers on hand all the time. I feed them along with a large variety of other feeders to my chams once or twice a week. They are a good feeder to use as part of your variety as long as they are well gut loaded.

 

[ISA my Veiled]

I like them a lot. We don't have other worms in Poland (exept wax worms which I buy only once a couple of weeks/months). I belive they shouldn't be fed more then every other day, because of a high content of fat. I give them to my female only after I weight her, and if she hadn't gain, I offer her one.

If you are worried about the hard shell you can feed a super to your cham after it sheds, they are white and soft

Yeah personally I wasn't taking that into my decision because I know how to feed and when to feed. So were you talking about the high fat content in the Supers?

I keep supers on hand all the time. I feed them along with a large variety of other feeders to my chams once or twice a week. They are a good feeder to use as part of your variety as long as they are well gut loaded.

Yeah I was really considering breeding them. I wanted to purchase 1,000 of them the other day but held off on it until I knew what more experienced Chameleon owners thought. And they will be used as a variety along with a cricket/dubia staple. Hopefully I can throw in some Silks also if I can breed them.

 

[JohnnyD]

I like the way they gutload. Supers love to eat.

 

[ISA my Veiled]

I like the way they gutload. Supers love to eat.

I agree with that ha

 

[Swayne8998]

They can be a great feeder if gutloaded right, but can be addictive. Lucky for me, Yoshi is not picky AT ALL. If Isa is a total killer (like Yoshi), she should have no problem eating them regularly. Here's an awesome video on how to breed them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8M2uessLgM

 

[ISA my Veiled]

They can be a great feeder if gutloaded right, but can be addictive. Lucky for me, Yoshi is not picky AT ALL. If Isa is a total killer (like Yoshi), she should have no problem eating them regularly. Here's an awesome video on how to breed them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8M2uessLgM

Great video! I looked at it and I have seeen the tier system and it seems to work well. I may try it that way, but I am not a fan of mealworms because they have more chitlin in their shells. But yeah I will have to look into it. I have to get money to get a tier going i think they are like 20 bucks at wally world.

 

[Swayne8998]

Great video! I looked at it and I have seeen the tier system and it seems to work well. I may try it that way, but I am not a fan of mealworms because they have more chitlin in their shells. But yeah I will have to look into it. I have to get money to get a tier going i think they are like 20 bucks at wally world.

Lol the mealworms part was just an extra. All the other videos I've seen on superworms are crap.

 

[ISA my Veiled]

Lol the mealworms part was just an extra. All the other videos I've seen on superworms are crap.

I thought there was a couple of good videos on youtube for them but this video was good and explained it all. I am also going to order silkworm eggs from Mulberry farms pretty soon here and raise them up.

 

[sandrachameleon]

So I wanted to know your opinion on supers. I currently for variety have crickets, dubia(colony in progress), wax worms(occasionally) and I have bought supers the past couple of times I went to the petstore. I am thinking about breeding them because they are relatively easy to breed. But as far as a feeder, how often do you guys include them in your Chameleons diet and how many at one time? I have been giving them to her, about 4 a week I would say maybe a couple more give or take. She loves them, hasnt shied away from eating anything else so that is good. Just wanted opinions.

yes, very easy to breed
gutloaded superworms can form up to 20% of a chameleons diet.

good idea also adding in silkworms, and as many other additional prey items as you can.

 

[ISA my Veiled]

yes, very easy to breed
gutloaded superworms can form up to 20% of a chameleons diet.

good idea also adding in silkworms, and as many other additional prey items as you can.

Thank you, I am trying to give her a good variety of healthy foods. As I said before I already have crickets, dubia, and supers. And of course the occasional wax worm lol But hopefully I can order the eggs here this next paycheck and get them going for her and all my other reptiles.

 

[Lathelia]

Yeah personally I wasn't taking that into my decision because I know how to feed and when to feed. So were you talking about the high fat content in the Supers?

Yes, if they weren't so fatty I would offer them more often

 

[kfactor]

That's all my guy will eat other then hornworms when I can get them .the weird thing about my guy is if he is out in his out door cage he will eat a few crickets but in his indoor cage he won't even look at them

 

[ISA my Veiled]

That's all my guy will eat other then hornworms when I can get them .the weird thing about my guy is if he is out in his out door cage he will eat a few crickets but in his indoor cage he won't even look at them

chameleons are picky guys arent they?

 

[Montium]

picky or overfed I picked up an Ambanja once and was told it would eat dubias, it eats everything now, worms roaches etc