How often to add variety (feeders)?

[Mirrorakay]

To begin with I never provided any variety in the live feeders my guy eats. I couldn't convince my parents that insects weren't going to overrun the house so we stuck solely to crickets. However, after a lot of time, my parents have agreed to me keeping pretty much any insect around the house so long as I don't breed them. It's a liveable agreement for sure and Zeke is loving the variety of worms he has been getting (BIG worm guy). Anyways, I'm wondering how often should I break from his staple feeder and basically mix it up?

As of right now, I've been doing one day of staple, then the next of whatever other feeder I have on hand as long as the spare feeder is one that lives fairly long. For hornworms we pretty much do them day after day so they don't sit around and get all massive. I do this until I use up this secondary feeder and then we go pretty long blocks with only the staple on hand (about a month between new and exciting feeders). Is this fine or should I mix it up more?

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On another note, we are gearing up to try silkworms. However, I'm wondering how long to they stay alive. Zeke eats about 5 big worms a day so we definately move through feeders well enough. I just don't want to buy a sizable amount only to have most of them die off before I can feed them.

 

[cybercat]

How old is Zeke? Are you giving him any greens?

 

[Paradon]

You can feed them varieties as often as you like. lol That is a great feeding schedule, if you asked me. Although, I would give him some greens, too. How old is he? If he is at least one year old, he should be eating some greens and veggies, also. But if he is still young, I would still give him some salad just so he gets use to the sight and smell. I would leave it the cage all day for him to nibble on... Bearded that are exposed to the salad when they are young are more likely to eat them as adults. So I would recommend leaving them in the cage for him to nibble on... In time they'll learn it's food and eventually eat it.

 

[Mirrorakay]

Zeke is almost two and eats a variety of salads every day. If he finishes off the bowl, I always add more. We've got it down to where he eats about half his salad before I get home for lunch, and that is when he gets his feeders. It seems to work out really well for us.