Is there a 12 step program?

[DutchHerp]

She's beautiful, *please* keep us updated this is really interesting (for me at least)!

[llovelace]

Update: She is up to 32g she's on superworms,crickets & waxworms. As soon as my mice drop litters I'm gonna start offering pinkies.

How often can they have pinkies?

[Chris Rossi]

Update: She is up to 32g she's on superworms,crickets & waxworms. As soon as my mice drop litters I'm gonna start offering pinkies.

How often can they have pinkies?

Pinkies I would only offer 1 every 2-3 months there arent the greatest for Leos. They should only be offered as treats, even though she is under weight waxies are better. Just carful not to get her hooked on them. I would also offer super worms instead of mealies. Supers take less to fill them up and are a little more fattening. All my leos eat supers and love them. I would try to feed just supers and waxies to help get her to a good weight (around 40g +). Crickets dont have much nutritional value in them. Let me know if you have any question, I am by no means trying to say be a know it all. I just had a female that did the same thing, accept she wouldnt eat for 3+ months and almost died. She is now 60g +.

[llovelace]

She ate like 6 superworms Those things are huge! she's got a good appetite.
I had sent my son to get waxworms and he came home with those, my other 2 leos won't touch them though, I got moths breeding now for more wax worms so eventually I can stop buying them.

[jrosen123]

I am so glad to see she has gained some weight.

Wax worms are excellent, superworms are very good aswell. I feed my girls butterworms when they are underweight from laying. But if waxies are working well by all means continue what you are doing, it seems to be working!

congrats on the weight gain, im glad to see she is doing well.

P.S. sometimes if I do not have crickets, I dust the worms a little bit.

[Chris Rossi]

She ate like 6 superworms Those things are huge! she's got a good appetite.
I had sent my son to get waxworms and he came home with those, my other 2 leos won't touch them though, I got moths breeding now for more wax worms so eventually I can stop buying them.

THats good just be carefull because wax worms can become addictive and then the leos only want to eat those and nothing else.

[llovelace]

I am so glad to see she has gained some weight.

Wax worms are excellent, superworms are very good aswell. I feed my girls butterworms when they are underweight from laying. But if waxies are working well by all means continue what you are doing, it seems to be working!

congrats on the weight gain, im glad to see she is doing well.

P.S. sometimes if I do not have crickets, I dust the worms a little bit.

Trust me everything gets dusted that goes into her/them. Those supers scare me though lol

[Michelle.C]

She's looking so much better! I remember clicking on this thread when you first posted and I was horrified. I'm so glad she found a loving home!

They can have pinkies every couple of months. When they are that underweight (or breeders), you can give them a pinkie once a month or so.

I'd feed a mix of Wax Worms, Meal Worms and Zophobas (Super Worms). While Zophobas contain more fat than Meal Worms, Meal Worms contain more protein, moisture and are they overall more nutritional.

My biggest problem with Zophobas are their exoskeleton is very hard to digest, and aren't very nutritional. Meal Worms and Phoenix Worms are both better feeders than Zophobas. Do a bit of searching for "nutritional value of super worms" and you'll see what I'm saying.

You might want to start a breeding colony of Roaches!

http://chamownersweb.net/insects/nutritional_values.htm Nutritional Values of some Feeders.

[llovelace]

She's looking so much better! I remember clicking on this thread when you first posted and I was horrified. I'm so glad she found a loving home!

They can have pinkies every couple of months. When they are that underweight (or breeders), you can give them a pinkie once a month or so.

I'd feed a mix of Wax Worms, Meal Worms and Zophobas (Super Worms). While Zophobas contain more fat than Meal Worms, Meal Worms contain more protein, moisture and are they overall more nutritional.

My biggest problem with Zophobas are their exoskeleton is very hard to digest, and aren't very nutritional. Meal Worms and Phoenix Worms are both better feeders than Zophobas. Do a bit of searching for "nutritional value of super worms" and you'll see what I'm saying.

You might want to start a breeding colony of Roaches!

http://chamownersweb.net/insects/nutritional_values.htm Nutritional Values of some Feeders.

Thanks!

Roaches ewwwwww do I have to?

[Michelle.C]

Thanks!

Roaches ewwwwww do I have to?

Hehe, no. You don't have to, buuuuut, certain species of Roaches have very high nutritional values! They are also easy to breed (some breeding faster than others) and most of them have no smell.

Besides, once you get past the fact that they are roaches, they are very interesting little creatures..err...insects.

I spent $75 on a Roach Colony three years ago, I haven't spent a dime more. They are keeping up with my pretty decent size Lizard and Tarantula collection.