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Old 26-06-2008, 04:34 PM
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ive had no baby mealies yet. how long does it take for the bettles to breed lay eggs and then hatch?
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they take a month or so.. it will take a while to get goign liek everything, and you probably have bebies you just cannot see them.. the babies when born are white and about 1 - 2 mm.
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Old 28-06-2008, 05:16 PM
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they take a month or so.. it will take a while to get goign liek everything, and you probably have bebies you just cannot see them.. the babies when born are white and about 1 - 2 mm.
do the beetles die after breeding? how many mealies can you keep in a small plastic tank 12''x8''?
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Ignorance is bliss, I been cleaning mine out every three days, i feed them to the hedgies. Dont they stink if you dont clean them?
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do the beetles die after breeding? how many mealies can you keep in a small plastic tank 12''x8''?
nop. they last quite a while. a few hundred could live in there

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Ignorance is bliss, I been cleaning mine out every three days, i feed them to the hedgies. Dont they stink if you dont clean them?
lol. nop dont smell at all
they are very unsmelly (which is good!)
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today I've discovered hundreds of minute mealworms rumerging through the oats, I was so happy at the site of this they were in the beetle container which I gave up on breeding months ago, what I noticed long before I found the little guys was that there was about four adult mealworms resting on the top. I think they have been breeding the whole time because the beetles wouldn't of survived for that long, there were mealworms of every size in there. I was wandering does everyone just leave the colony be and only 'harvest' the adult mealworms or just seperate the babies from the beetles if so how do you do this?
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Old 30-06-2008, 12:54 PM
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i leave mine all togetehr, they seem to have their own areas...

beetles on top, adults just under the surface, and babies at the bottom

i take out what i want and need when i need them
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today I've discovered hundreds of minute mealworms rumerging through the oats, I was so happy at the site of this they were in the beetle container which I gave up on breeding months ago, what I noticed long before I found the little guys was that there was about four adult mealworms resting on the top. I think they have been breeding the whole time because the beetles wouldn't of survived for that long, there were mealworms of every size in there. I was wandering does everyone just leave the colony be and only 'harvest' the adult mealworms or just seperate the babies from the beetles if so how do you do this?
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can the adult beetles be fed to adult leopard geckos?

edit: nvm, apparently you shouldn't.

i've just set mine up.. with almost all the cereal i could find.
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Apparently they have a low nutritional value, hard shells too, making them difficult to digest. I wouldn't feed them to a leopard gecko, I don't know about larger lizards though.
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In a nerdy way or coarse . I have been inspired to set up a mealworm farm ,as this last couple of weeks i cannot get enough mealies when i need them . So big thanks to freeky for an excellent thread .
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