silkworms!!!

[recycling goddess]

OMGoddess, i wish i had a camera while i was feeding my cresties their very first meal of silkworms. they went CRAZZZZY over them!

i just held them with tweezers... the silkies are really small and they just munched them down!

healthy tastey squishy morsels!

[mlededee]

sounds delicious! do you purchase the silkworms locally or did you order them? i'm just wondering because no one locally here has them...

[recycling goddess]

i purchase the eggs and grow them up myself... i supply two petstores with silkies

they are so easy to grow as long as you keep everything nice and clean and make sure to use tweezers... and they are sooooooooooo healthy

[mikerccie]

Goddess --

My Leo loves his silkworms, we buy them by the "cup" at the reptile show when they're available (only about 4 months per year). When we buy a bunch of them, they tend to die off in the cup before my leo gets to them all. He generally eats 1 or 2 a day and the "chow" in the bottom of the cup doesn't last long enough.

My supplier at the show says he recommends mulberry leaves for food.

I'd love to be able to supply my guy (and my 2 possums) with silkies year round. How difficult are they to grow? Do you have a house surrounded by mulberry trees?

[recycling goddess]

you live in silkworm heaven!!! you buy the chow and you buy the eggs and grow them up... easy and quite inexpensive!!! go here and check out my link page... lots of good info on them!

http://www.timelessspirit.com/enclosure.html

contact www.thewormroom.com her chow is so much better than anyone else's i've ever tried!!!!! she can assist you with eggs too!

http://www.timelessspirit.com/enclosure.html

[recycling goddess]

what i mean by 'you live in silkworm heaven' is the fact you live in the states... so much cheaper and easier to get eggs and chow than up here in canada!