If you have an animal recovering from anything, order a small batch of silkworms this week. Twenty larvae is plenty.
Silkworms — the highest-quality treat feeder we use.
High calcium, low fat, soft-bodied, well-tolerated. The closest thing to a 'perfect' treat feeder, and the most expensive — use accordingly.
Silkworms (Bombyx mori larvae) are about as nutritionally clean as feeder insects get: high calcium, low fat, easily digested, palatable to even picky eaters. The catch is cost — silkworms run several times the price of crickets and require fresh mulberry chow to keep alive past a few days.
Use silkworms strategically: post-vet recovery, gravid females needing extra calcium, juveniles in slow-growth phases, or as the rare treat that makes a recovering animal interested in food again. We typically order silkworms in small batches and use them within a week. Not a daily feeder; a precision tool.
DSQUARED Reptiles — Living Art. Curated Genetics.
From the field notes archive.
The morning baseline photograph.
A single weekly photo, taken at the same hour and angle, will tell you more about your care than any forum thread ever could.
Tightening screen tension on a year-old cage.
After twelve months of misting cycles and live plant weight, screen panels sag in ways that quietly compromise climbing surfaces.
A 72-hour gutload window for dubia roaches.
Dubia gutloads peak somewhere between 48 and 72 hours after the colony moves onto a fresh diet. Here's the schedule we run.