Will my C. orientalis morphs be okay til Wednesday?

[corrina]

Today they ran out of fruitfies and I won't be able to get any til wednesday morning because I work 3-11 every day til then and can't afford the trip to the store that sells them (an hour away). Will my morphs be okay without food til Wednesday? I put some thawed bloodworms in there in case they do end up smelling them and get hungry enough to eat them.

 

[pamela]

Hi Corrina,

Try the thawed bloodworms for sure. That is what I feed my morphs. It is also healthier for them than the fruitflies (so I hear). If they don't eat them on their own, try hand feeding them with a tweezers. (I do this with my morphs.) You can even try tiny pieces of chopped earthworm. Just dig around in your yard

Good luck

 

[joseph]

Tiny chopped pieces of earthworms work well-as do frozen bloodworms but IME it is a tricky to get them eating bloodworms from tweezers(if they catch on that it makes feeding much easier though). I think earthworms, blackworms etc. have more nutrition in them compared to FF's

 

[corrina]

Okay, I just chopped up a live earthworm. Gross, but it had to be done. So far, the babies are ignoring the pieces, but hopefully they will come around. I can get fruitflies as soon as Tuesday. Finding anything small enough for them is a pain, but I'm going to try checking out whats available on the internet for them.

 

[corrina]

Also, the pieces of chopped earthworm stopped moving right before I put them into the morph's area. It seems that if I chop them up small enough, they won't move. Is that okay?

 

[joseph]

You could try putting them on something like a piece of straw and offering it to the morphs. Otherwise, look around for smaller worms.