Phoenix/Calci/Reptiworm discovery

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I'm not sure if this belongs in "feeders" or "feeding," but I wanted to share my discovery about repti/calci/phoenix worms--and it's kinda gross, so be warned. I've been feeding George PWs since I got him, and it seemed that he routinely wasn't digesting about 10% of his PWs. Apparently that's pretty common, judging by the number of posts on the subject. Well, today I noticed something about one of those supposedly undigested worms. George decided to poo in his bath and when I went to rinse him off, there was what looked to be an undigested PW stuck to his back leg. When I picked it up w/a q-tip, it was clear that it was not solid--it was more like a wet sack. I think George must've somehow managed to digest the guts and poo out the skin whole. I also noticed that the 4 or 5 apparently undigested worms all looked white-ish, which struck me as weird because I was at the end of a container and pretty much all the PWs I fed him (he eats 45-50 at a pop) were black or close to it, which makes me think that perhaps they were all just skins. Has anyone else noticed this?
 

Evergreen

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Interesting... ive never noticed a worm come out whole but maybe the heat and juices from his digestive tract just sucked all the nutrients out it but the skin was tougher? It'd be gross but ifyou cut one open you could see it it really was stil whole or if the insides really had been digested..
 
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