![]() ![]() ![]() if you insist on learning the hard way, ajcann has a great vid on how to raise wax worms on youtube (link to follow if vid is still available/edit have decided not to post how to raise waxworm video link) it should be noted that ajcann is not a cham person ( i think he is mostly a phelsuma and frog person). So my advice would be not only, to not breed waxworms, but also to not feed the waxworms you have. (lol, that would make a 32 count about a 2 year supply, which of course is absurd because you could never keep a culture in its larval stage for that long). imo, the maximum acceptable rate of feeding waxworms would be about 1 every 3 or 4 weeks. waxworms are almost 1/4 fat overall, that combined with their hugely disproportionate Ca ratio, imo makes them unacceptable to use as a frequent feeder or even more than one at an offering, regardless of digestibility. ![]() thats not even counting over 21% fat, thats about 24% higher than superworms. Heres an actual lab analysis of wax worms.Īccording to the #s above (P2161,ppm/Ca,283ppm) yields an astronomically out of balance Ca ratio of 1:7.63 thats over 1500% percent of the target ratio of Ca 2:1 (which most feeders dont meet anyway) even still thats over 650% higher than crickets There lots of nutritional postings but most are just posting the commonly accepted values, Heres some waxworm info i was going to use in another post but never got around to posting. The problem is, of all the commonly referred to and available feeders, metabollically speaking, waxworms are the worst. I"ve raised wax worms before, back in my early cham, pre-research days, and almost killed my animals with them on more than one occassion, until i learned what the problem was. ![]()
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