Meal worms

[Emma]

Originally Posted by nooboo

a pet shop selling fresh?!?



I was thinking of wandering to a shop that sells a lot of reptiles in Manchester to see if they would do them fresh!



my lot adore the dried mealworms, but I feel that this gives them less benifits

Yes it's a big place that does reptiles. There's a vast selection of live insects (pet ones as well as feeder ones!). Never wanted a pet tarantula though!

[nooboo]

I always consider it, then decide that it's too costly and they are not soft and fuzzy like hamsters.



will see if I can get some live food. I don't mind having them live for a bit, just the thought of breeding mealworms makes me cringe, the lack of space does not help

[babyboos]

Wax worms are good too, I use meal worms because my dad grows them. If he grew wax worms as well or instead I would use them too. They are very icky and I totally empathise with you and the under bed thing. I keep them in a tub with a piece of kitchen roll lying over the holes so they can't possibly ever get out! I laughed out loud when I read about you setting George on the escapee I tried this with my cat but she wasn't impressed even though normally she dispatches spiders OK. They seemed to freak her out a bit too. I bet all your guys really love you now and will be sitting at home curled up in bed eagerly waiting tonight's yummy dinnertime.

[furrynavel]

I buy mine on eBay, it is £2.50 including postage for a tub with hundreds in it. My hubby has frogs and my ratties also munch on a few too. I tried the dried ones that you can buy in Pets at Home in the wild bird section but no-one seemed interested because they were not moving. I even mixed them in their food and they didn't touch them at all. You can also get waxworms and crickets (silent brown ones so no noise if any escape ) on eBay too. Next day delivery usually unless it is a weekend.

[babyboos]

Oh good idea - see eBay get just about anything on there...

[Skwee]

what are silkworms? or what ARE silkworms? my local petshop sells them for wild birds in a tub, they are dead and dried and the only bug things I can get hold of at the moment but thought I ought to check first...

[MBll]

Well heres me sitting here stuffing me face & reading post on mealworms ...YUK GOING BE SICK NOW lol



I never really thought bout it & didn't when i had hamsters?

[furrynavel]

Mmmmm, Mimosa is tucking into her brown crickets, small locusts and waxworms courtesy of the pink skink herp shop on ebay!

Not bad £2.50 a pack inc postage. She shares them with OH frogs.

[mimosaurus]

I have never ever heard of hamsters eating any types of worms before! I guess it makes sense since obviously they eat stuff like that in the wild...



I had geckos once, they used to eat mealworms. They were a bit dozy though, you had to wave the wriggling worms in front of them for absolutely ages before they caught on that they were supposed to be paying attention to it, because they burrow really fast and they're nasty little critters if they're left crawling around in the cage.

[babyboos]

If giving them live you really have to make sure they have been dispatched before leaving the cage area...