Hornworms are one of the Top 3 Live Feeders you can feed to your reptile pets. Horned Worms make very nutritious live feeders for all your reptiles and all sizes of lizards, fish, frogs, hens, birds, turtles, etc...They provide excellent hydration, Calcium (4.6%), Protein (9%) with a low fat (3%) content.
Since hornworms have no chitin or exoskeleton (the hard shell) they are easy to digest and there is no worry about impaction in your juvenile reptile pets. When horn worms are fed their proper diet (our tan-coloured horn worm chow special recipe), they possess a healthy nutritional content of: 9% Protein, 3.07% Fat, 46.4mg/100g Calcium, and 85% Moisture.
Hornworms are hardy, easy to keep, very low maintenance, and are a wonderful feeder to help ensure your exotic's proper hydration. Many bearded dragons will rarely drink water from a dish, since it is unnatural for them to do so, and get badly dehydrated. Hornworms get the job done in hydrating your lizards because they are very high in moisture.
Hornworms will keep up to three weeks (refrigerated at 50-55F) if you get them medium sized (1.25"-2.0" long - in their 3rd instar) and feed them our special hornworm yellow chow.
Best Top Quality Hornworms' are easily digested and are often used to break a hunger strike, or for recovering reptiles, and are great live feeder insects which should be a part of your exotic’s highly nutritious regular balanced-diet. With their enticing teal colour and black and white stripes that exaggerate their movements, hornworms will be pounced on in no time flat!