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Not a good feeding response with silkworms?

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So I got some silkworms in today and I immediately put them on some fresh mulberry leaves which they greedily started munching on and once they were full I tried feeding them to my gecko. I tried a biggish one about the size of a superworm and he had it in his mouth, but let go because the worm grabbed the paper towel and wouldn't let go. I tried a smaller one next about the size of a large mealworm and this time he ate it but didn't look too happy afterwards. I tried another one, and he ate him, but spat him out, grabbed him again, and then spat him out not to touch another one after that.

Now is my gecko hopelessly spoiled (I've been feeding him very fat apple and carrot fed mealworms on Pro-gecko's gutload and occasional wax worm, and is about all he'll touch), or do some geckos just not like the taste of silkworms? Also does feeding them fresh mulberry (white mulberry) make them taste worse compared to silkworms fed purely artificial diet?

At this rate those silks are gonna pupate and I'm gonna have more silkworms than I know what to do with...
 
not sure i have never fed silkworms but I do have one that will not touch crickets anymore, only mealworms and he loves wax worms as a treat, spoiled rotten!
 
Well, it's perfectly normal for a particular geck to not like a particular type of food...personally I'd say seven of my ten leos will happily eat silkies; there'll always be a few that won't.

As for the mulberry question...I'm honestly not sure...I'm not sure what you mean by 'artificial' either -- I feed the green stuff & I wasn't aware of it being anything but natural.
 
Oops, well, not artificial but the chow they sell and you turn into like a block of green tofu.

The chow definately seems to smell pretty strong (or maybe it was because they were in those tubs buried in their poop for the last three days), but since switching them over to mulberry they seem to smell alot less.

When the little worms turn brown does that mean they're dying or shedding? There's one or two that are brown and motionless, but wriggle like mad occasionally.

I think I'll keep trying to feed my gecko the silks for the next couple days before giving up on them. I think he associates anything the shape and size of a superworm to be a superworm. He used to eat superworms like no tomorrow when he was little, but once I fed him a slighty larger one and it nailed him in the face with those mandibles and he's never touched a super since.
 
I have a few geckos that won't eat silkies, but most of them love them. :lick: My silkies get fed the tofu type mulberry. It would be interesting to see if you changed your silkies food to the instant stuff - would it make a difference in your geckos attitude towards them. Now - if only my geckos would eat meal worms! They HATE them!:throwup02
 
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