Feeders

[speckles]

I found advertisments for hornworms and phoenix worms: are they okay to feed to a tiger salamander she doesn't seem interested in worms anymore.

 

[Jan]

I have no experience with hornworms, but phoenix worms are an excellent choice.

 

[speckles]

I looked up past threads about blue hornworms and all i found was they could be fed to them if fed the right size. The stinger is soft and won't hurt the tiger but i didn't find a thread about feeding them to a tiger salamander.

 

[esn]

I feed hornworms and black soldier fly larvae to a variety of things. Phoenix worms have a great calcium to phosphorus ratio and can be used as a staple diet for many herps. They're small though, so it would take a few of the largest size to fill up a tiger. Hornworms are expensive, but they're soft bodied and a good treat. There is nothing wrong with them, and are good in variation. They're usually fed to reptiles and are hard to resist because of their color and particular movement- I'm not sure how tigers would react to them. They can get very large and are little pus-bags, so you want to make sure you feed them off at the right size because cutting them will not be pretty.

Good luck to you. I'd try Phoenix worms first, then hornworms because of their price.

 

[speckles]

I feed hornworms and black soldier fly larvae to a variety of things. Phoenix worms have a great calcium to phosphorus ratio and can be used as a staple diet for many herps. They're small though, so it would take a few of the largest size to fill up a tiger. Hornworms are expensive, but they're soft bodied and a good treat. There is nothing wrong with them, and are good in variation. They're usually fed to reptiles and are hard to resist because of their color and particular movement- I'm not sure how tigers would react to them. They can get very large and are little pus-bags, so you want to make sure you feed them off at the right size because cutting them will not be pretty.

Good luck to you. I'd try Phoenix worms first, then hornworms because of their price.

I'll try them both at a later date, i'm hoping since she hasn't eaten in a week she will be hungry enough to eat a nightcrawler.

 

[speckles]

I thought i should give an update: first found out my tiger is a male but besides that

phoenix worms: took quite a bit to get my tiger full but he seems to like them ate close to a hundred of them

hornworms: LOVES them, i have never seen him so quickly eat prey but the hornworms got big quick so i sold some to another amphibian keeper i know who gave them to his african pixie.