from most everything I have read, the beardie needs to be about 16 inches long before feeding superworms.
My beardies love them. I have one beardie that is 15 and 1/2 inches, and I feed him the completely white freshly shed supers, since they dont have the hard shell.
yeah i agree but i wouldnt feed superworms to anything smaller than 10 or 12 inches just because of the impaction factor...i havnt heard many stories but i have heard some about the shells impacting them
from most everything I have read, the beardie needs to be about 16 inches long before feeding superworms.
My beardies love them. I have one beardie that is 15 and 1/2 inches, and I feed him the completely white freshly shed supers, since they dont have the hard shell.
from most everything I have read, the beardie needs to be about 16 inches long before feeding superworms.
My beardies love them. I have one beardie that is 15 and 1/2 inches, and I feed him the completely white freshly shed supers, since they dont have the hard shell.
You can't just buy them like that. When a super or roach shed, they are white and soft underneath. Within a few hours, this begins to harden and change into a darker color. It's just a part of their life cycle, not a permanent stage.
I used to feed Rex exclusively superworms, along with veggies, and i read somewhere that they can be highly addictive, so i stopped feeding them to him. He always seemed to be a very picky eater (he'd only eat corn, grapes and okra), but he would never refuse a worm. Since i've stopped feeding him super's, he's eating a lot more veggies; especially veggies he wouldn't eat before like brocolli and carrots. The insects i've been giving him lately are wax worms. I know they're fattening, but he loves them, and a little weight on a beardie is a good thing (sometimes he bromates for six months)!