silkworms and diarrhea

[natnat]

So I would love to use silkworms as a staple sometimes because they are pretty healthy, however, every time I feed them to my beardie they give him diarrhea. How do people who use silkworms as a staple keep them from having diarrhea?

 

[KarrieRee]

Never had the issue w/ silk worms giving diarrhea-- what else are you feeding besides silk worms?

 

[natnat]

I'm working on getting him to eat more salad so he gets like endive, collards, butternut squash, some blueberries to entice him to eat his salad. I don't have issues with him having diarrhea when I feed him dubias. It's possible that since he's eating more salad lately thats also contributing to it.

 

[KarrieRee]

Stop w/ the butternut squash still feed the silks and see what happens - if he is still having the diarrhea then I would say its the silk worms but squash tends to give runny stools -