Phoenix worms?

[patron17]

Im looking to order some phoenix worms and i don't know if they are hard to care for.
What and how much do you feed them?
How many will die when being delivered?
Would they live a couple weeks with food until i feed them to my dragon?
Do you need to give them water too?

Any help would be great

 

[Spike1etta]

not much is needed, they are grubs and can live in compost. There is an article on right side on how to set up and feed them.

 

[Lpsouth1978]

I love Phoenix worms!! I keep them in a wine cooler and they will last a couple of months with NO care at all.

 

[rempop]

I ordered 600 small Phoenix worms that were delivered on July 5 and 13 days later am still finding decent size worms to feed Blaze. I saw in someones enclosures post that they kept their worm tubs in a cooler and just kept ice in it. (sorry can't remember whose right now) As I am not interested in getting a wine cooler this is working out real well for me and Blaze.
I alternate the tubs so that I can give the bigger worms to Blaze and just today got to one tub that only had a few very small worms left in it. So need to order more now. For reference Blaze eats just over 40 most days and he is 4 months old. I do give him dusted crickets several times a week still.
And the silly baby likes his greens.

 

[Lpsouth1978]

I have heard of others using coolers as well. I was going through 1000 worms in 5 or 6 days. For me it just made sense to get an inexpensive wine cooler and order the worms in bulk. For about $220 I have enough worms and a cooler to last me 3 months. That would be about 5 weeks of worms the way I was ordering them before. In the future it will only cost me $110 for 3 months, $110 would only have purchased 3 weeks of worms before the wine cooler. The saving quickly make up for the purchase of the wine cooler.

PS- I found a number of wine coolers available for $50 or less on Craigslist here.