VerriKerri
Hatchling Member
Hello all!
Just have an interesting question and would like some advice from my fellow beardie lovers!
My beardie, Dixie just came out of a very long brumation which scared the crap out of me but thankfully she is fine and the vet said she looks great! Normally while she is in brumation I offer crickets that I get at the petstore and freeze them so they don't escape in the house but she doesn't usually eat them while she's brumating. When she woke up I had a nice omnivore mix that I got at the petstore and she likes that but I wanted to go order her usual staple which is calciworms/reptiworms.
Now, I'm not really bothered by feeding her the live larvae unless I get a bad batch and they are all black and about to pupate because I have had the occasionally scare of opening the container and a giant fly lunging at my face! So, I saw that they are now selling dried calciworms which I guess are made for chickens and birds instead of meal worms but I was wondering if I could feed them to my beardie or would they not have the same value since they are dried? Has anyone tried giving them to their beardie with any success? I already know she loves them so if I could keep a huge bag of them instead of having to order live every 2 weeks that would save me a lot of money.
The two shops selling them are here:
https://www.chubbymealworms.co.uk/collections/dried-calci-worms-1
http://www.exoticnutrition.com/Products/Calci-Worms-1-lb-bag__333EN.aspx?gclid=Cj0KCQiAiKrUBRD6ARIsADS2OLmkp-JaZDcsrp2ymMLgS7KoKtZgrFrlAllGB_SoM-xSsihJNllPDgQaAntkEALw_wcB
They both seem good however I couldn't find a nutrition sheet anywhere on the chubby website and on the exotic nutrition website it says that the fat content is 35% but I know the fat content of live ones is something like 9.5% ?
Hoping someone can help me out or give me some input. Thanks in advanced!
Just have an interesting question and would like some advice from my fellow beardie lovers!
My beardie, Dixie just came out of a very long brumation which scared the crap out of me but thankfully she is fine and the vet said she looks great! Normally while she is in brumation I offer crickets that I get at the petstore and freeze them so they don't escape in the house but she doesn't usually eat them while she's brumating. When she woke up I had a nice omnivore mix that I got at the petstore and she likes that but I wanted to go order her usual staple which is calciworms/reptiworms.
Now, I'm not really bothered by feeding her the live larvae unless I get a bad batch and they are all black and about to pupate because I have had the occasionally scare of opening the container and a giant fly lunging at my face! So, I saw that they are now selling dried calciworms which I guess are made for chickens and birds instead of meal worms but I was wondering if I could feed them to my beardie or would they not have the same value since they are dried? Has anyone tried giving them to their beardie with any success? I already know she loves them so if I could keep a huge bag of them instead of having to order live every 2 weeks that would save me a lot of money.
The two shops selling them are here:
https://www.chubbymealworms.co.uk/collections/dried-calci-worms-1
http://www.exoticnutrition.com/Products/Calci-Worms-1-lb-bag__333EN.aspx?gclid=Cj0KCQiAiKrUBRD6ARIsADS2OLmkp-JaZDcsrp2ymMLgS7KoKtZgrFrlAllGB_SoM-xSsihJNllPDgQaAntkEALw_wcB
They both seem good however I couldn't find a nutrition sheet anywhere on the chubby website and on the exotic nutrition website it says that the fat content is 35% but I know the fat content of live ones is something like 9.5% ?
Hoping someone can help me out or give me some input. Thanks in advanced!