Lineatus not eating worms

[siz]

I've had my male lineatus since the last Canadian Missisauga expo, so for about a month. He HAS eaten for me, mostly crickets and he has eaten a superworm. I hate crickets, lol, so my last feeder order I didn't buy any. Instead I bought about $40 worth of worms (silks, horns, butter) for my chameleon and the uroplatus. The uro will not touch them. He looks at them like he is interested but he never actually goes for them. He will get up close and stare them down but won't chomp 'em! I have tried feeding in a cup, by tongs, by hand, and loose in the viv. He hasn't touched any of them. Are there any tricks I can use to get him to eat them? Obviously if he won't eat them, I will go back to feeding him just crickets but I wanted to add a healthy variety to his diet..and I do realize he may just never eat them. I was thinking maybe they just don't move enough for him but the butterworms are fairly wriggly.. I am frusterated! Any thoughts?
He is in a 35 or 40g tall hexagon tank, soil/peat moss/sand substrate, fake plants ATM until I can get to the nursery. My temperature gun was recently stolen so I don't know his exact temps but he is in the high 70s low 80s during the day and this drops at night.
How much should an adult weight? I haven't weighed him yet but I definaltey can.
Thanks!!

 

[luevelvet]

Ours aren't fond of any of the worms either. Remember, being nocturnal means it will be accustomed to nocturnal food. Most worms like that are rarely out in the open and not very mobile. It's not to say they won't ever eat one, but I've found that they instantly go for the crickets and dubia roaches and never go for any of the worms I've offered.

If you don't like crickets, Dubia's are an excellent alternative.

Luis

 

[RFB2]

I have other uros. Mine hate everything that isn't a roach or a cricket. Try raising some of the worms into moths. I bet they will take them.

 

[rhatfield]

Mine like the laterials roaches also. I just got some a few weeks ago and havent tried worms yet.

 

[DDReptiles]

This is the results I have had with worms:

Hornworms- a few geckos ate them, I have one guentheri male that ate 5 in one feeding, but for how expensive the worms are they are a once and a blue moon kinda treat.

Silkworms- Nothing ate these, I bought like 2,000 eggs and spent another $50 on food for them, I even planted a Mullberry Tree in the yard. I ended up feeding most of them to my Bearded Dragon as none of the geckos would even consider eating them. Atleast I can look forward to climbing my Mullberry tree in the yard LOL

Butterworms- Similar results to Hornworms, these are also quite expensive so again I maybe only get to offer them 1-3 times a year.

Waxworms- These are the most readily taken worm I offer, though they are not taken by my Uroplatus, especially the larger species. But my masobe eat them, Aussie Leaftails, Rhacodactylus, Crytodactylus, Bavayia. But do to them being high in fat, I don't offer them very often maybe 1-3 times in the breeding season and once in the offseason.

Crickets and Roaches make up the vast part of my Uro's diet.

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

My lineatus never liked any type of worms either. But they LOVED b.dubia roaches. They especially loved the male dubias for some reason (the wings perhaps?). I put them in a gladware type bowl and the lineatus would go nuts diving for them.

 

[allen]

To go with the rest, Uroplatus likes fastfood. crickets and roaches are ideal.
Worms are in my eyes only good for pincerfeeding and mostly with young cb`s, they tend to like them.
Even locusts are not always eaten, Sometimes they jump on them like crazy, other times the locusts just crawl over them and they do not react.

 

[siz]

Thanks a lot for the replies. I had him take a superworm from me before so I figured (hoped) he would take these. Oh well, I don't really mind..
How do you raise silks into moths? I still have a couple left and I was told that it might work from somebody else.
You know, I actually never considered the nocturnal factor. He loves crickets so I guess it's back to that. I'm in Canada and dubias are classified as invasive species....

 

[allen]

For the silks turning into moths, i suppose you just feed them till they make a cocoon. But be sure you have enough food for them, as they tend to eat a serious amount...

The moths are, as far as i know, nocturnal and move a lot more then the worms. So maybe your uro`s are more interested in the moths.

greetz
Allen

 

[siz]

What are some of the key points in keeping dubia? Temps round 90, medium humidity? What is a good gutload? Same as crickets?

 

[geckomeister]

Most of my lineatus and other large Uroplatus have learned to take worms from a dish. Superworms are usually, but not always, taken readily. Large butterworms usually get eaten as well, but not as quickly. I feed 2 pairs of henkeli, 9 lineatus and 8 fimbriatus the same night and usually there are one or two cages where the worms are untouched, another one or two where some are eaten and the rest are all eaten. Most Uroplatus will eat some waxworms placed on branches or cork bark. Many of my larger Uroplatus were sometimes fed broken superworms from forceps before I switched to flexible plastic dishes. Breaking open the superworm and squeezing out the white insides often helps. If they lick it or you rub it along their jawline, the taste will encourage them to grab it. Sometimes just trying again weeks or months later will make a difference. Patience is very helpful when keeping Uroplatus.

Neil