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01-Oct-07, 02:50 PM
|  | QUEEN B Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23  | | |  Silkworms as beardie food..?
Soooo ... I have a couple of questions about silkworms.
1. Do they make good beardie food (ie are they nutritious?)
2. If so, where can I get silkworms or silkworm eggs from?
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3. Where can I get mulberry leaves from? I've heard that silkworms can be raised on lettuce as opposed to mulberry leaves, is this true?
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01-Oct-07, 02:54 PM
|  | Wonder Woman Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | |
I have no idea about the first one, they're pretty easy to get hold of from pet shops/primary schools, people who have them always seem to have too many (when I kept them I always had a few hundred at a time because they lay so many eggs, the growth from year to year seems so exponential), but I think Pisces sell them as well.
And I tried to feed them lettuce when I ran out of mulberry leaves and had no success with it. The silkworms went green and bloaty and died.
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01-Oct-07, 03:02 PM
| | QUEEN B Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | |
Oh ok thanks. So where do you get mulberry leaves from?
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01-Oct-07, 03:07 PM
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mulberry trees  |
01-Oct-07, 03:11 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: sydney Age/Gender: 21 | | | |
they're excellent food in term of nutrition they even contain an enzyme that help to break down artial plauge so feed them as much of them as you can. in terms of the leaves i would have a walk around your neighbourhood with a pair of scissors and a platic bag.
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01-Oct-07, 03:12 PM
| | QUEEN B Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | |
Lol I have no idea what a mulberry tree even looks like, let alone where to find one in my area!   |
01-Oct-07, 03:14 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23  | | | |
They do eat some other leaves just cant remember what.
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01-Oct-07, 03:20 PM
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My reptile guy gets them in seasonally. This probably isn't any good to you being in Brisi. But they are seasonal. So just keep an eye out at the pet store.
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01-Oct-07, 03:21 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: sydney Age/Gender: 21 | | | |
pisces sells them so pet shop that gets their crickets can order silkies in for you. if you have a few beardies chances are that you won't get a chance to replace the leaves they'll gobble them up too quick, lol
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01-Oct-07, 03:25 PM
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Oh ok cool, do you know how much the Pisces ones cost?
And if I bought enough of them and got them breeding, do you think I'd be able to keep a bit of a cycle going? I've got four adult beardies to feed. I'm breeding crickets, but crickets are so painful to raise
In the States they get Phoenix worms and super worms and all that good stuff, and we're stuck with stupid crickets and roaches  |
01-Oct-07, 03:27 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Townsville, North QLD Age/Gender: 21 | | |
Feeder Roaches from the HerpShop are soooo much easier than crickets...
PM Chris1 I think she breeds silkworms she'll be able to help 
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01-Oct-07, 03:29 PM
| | QUEEN B Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by swingonthespiral  Feeder Roaches from the HerpShop are soooo much easier than crickets...
PM Chris1 I think she breeds silkworms she'll be able to help | Unfortunately I have a morbid fear of roaches, all kinds 
I'll see if Chris can help with some info, thanks!  |
01-Oct-07, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss B Oh ok cool, do you know how much the Pisces ones cost?
And if I bought enough of them and got them breeding, do you think I'd be able to keep a bit of a cycle going? I've got four adult beardies to feed. I'm breeding crickets, but crickets are so painful to raise
In the States they get Phoenix worms and super worms and all that good stuff, and we're stuck with stupid crickets and roaches | If you get 10 silkworms, you will probably get a couple of hundred eggs next year, and then you'll have heaps.
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01-Oct-07, 03:30 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | |
Mealworms and roaches are very easy to breed, they would also be heaps more productive than silk worms. From memory silk worms are very expensive.
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01-Oct-07, 03:30 PM
|  | Moorebank Reptiles Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Moorebank Age/Gender: 14 | | | |
mmmmmmmmmmmm mulberrys ............so are they found in mulberry trees?
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