Stubbington Aquaria suppliers of Reptiles and vivariums in Stubbington Hampshire UK

STUBBINGTON AQUARIA REPTILES

We stock live crickets , mealworms, and waxworms for reptiles.

Vivariums and all accessories will also be available

LEOPARD GECKOS £60 each
In nature, leopard geckos eat insects, spiders, worms and grubs. However, in captivity, the primary foods for leopard gecko are crickets. If you would like to make your leopard geckos happy and healthy, then do not feed your leopard geckos with crickets all the time. Feeding geckos with waxworms and mealworms would be a good dietary plan. Size of crickets is the main problem to feeding gecko. Hatchling cannot take adult crickets, 2 week-old crickets are recommended. Adult geckos can handle all size of crickets.

BEARDED DRAGONS £75 each
Popular feeder insects include crickets, roaches, locusts, silkworms, hornworms, butterworms, and phoenix worms. The mealworm has a fairly hard chitin (exoskeleton) and is generally low in the "chitin to meat" ratio, as well as having a poor phosphorous/calcium ratio, making it far less nutritious than other feeder insects. Chitin is hard enough that large amounts of it can cause impaction in the Bearded Dragon's digestion system, and can lead to death, especially in younger and smaller animals. Waxworms, and superworms can be given as a treat, but sparingly as in most cases as they are extremely fatty, and in some cases very addictive, although they can be useful in building-up an undernourished individual. The rule of thumb on feeder insects is that the food fed to the animal must not be larger than the space between the eyes; feeding something larger could make it hard for the animal to swallow the food and can lead to the aforementioned fatal impaction.

CORN SNAKES £80 each
Corn snakes are found in the eastern United States, from southern New Jersey south through Florida, west into Louisiana and parts of Kentucky. Corn snakes are most abundant in Florida and the south-eastern U.S.
Adult Corn snakes do not usually feed every day, instead they feed every few days, feeding on mice, rats, birds and bats, while hatchling & young Corn snakes tend to feed on small lizards and tree frogs. Corn snakes are constrictors and they feed by biting their prey in order to obtain a firm grip, then they quickly wrap one or more coils of their body around their victim, they then squeeze tightly until the prey suffocates. The snake will then swallow the food whole, usually head first. However, Corn snakes have also been observed swallowing small prey alive.
In captivity, Corn snakes are fed mainly on mice, rat pups and chicks. As with most other species of snake, they will eat food of a proportional size.