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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0.3 super hypo leos
1.1 high yellow leos
0.2 patternless leos
0.1 bci

3 baby leos - normal, superhypos

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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do the beetles die after breeding? how many mealies can you keep in a small plastic tank 12''x8''?

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0.3 super hypo leos
1.1 high yellow leos
0.2 patternless leos
0.1 bci

3 baby leos - normal, superhypos

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?

nop. they last quite a while. a few hundred could live in there

lol. nop dont smell at all
they are very unsmelly (which is good!)

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Snakes 1.0 Hognose1.1 Milksnake1.0 Spotted Python0.1 Corn snake
Amphibians2.1 Axolotl(one morphed)Mammals0.5 Mice2.0 Cats (soon to be 4.0!!)
OthersLots of fishLots of snailsFor sale0.0.3Leopard Geckos0.0.2Gargoyle GeckosSnailsR.I.Pfreckspumpkintim and poppyelmhatchlings
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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?
thankyou

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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Lizards9.9.7 Crested Gecko5.14.5 Leopard Gecko1.1 Berber Skink1.2 Fan Footed Gecko1.0 Mossy Gecko2.3.7 Gargoyle Gecko1.1 Uroplatus.cf.ebenaui 1.0 Uroplatus Guentheri1.0 Uroplatus Henkeli2.2 Cat geckos1.1 Eurydactolodes agricolae1.1 Tokay Gecko[/option][/option]
Snakes 1.0 Hognose1.1 Milksnake1.0 Spotted Python0.1 Corn snake
Amphibians2.1 Axolotl(one morphed)Mammals0.5 Mice2.0 Cats (soon to be 4.0!!)
OthersLots of fishLots of snailsFor sale0.0.3Leopard Geckos0.0.2Gargoyle GeckosSnailsR.I.Pfreckspumpkintim and poppyelmhatchlings
http://www.freewebs.com/freckstheleopardgecko

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.

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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