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Old 18-07-2008, 10:35 AM
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This is ours the large tub contains standard and very large mealworms plus beetles and larver ,and the smaller tub has the beetles in until they lay eggs and mini mealies appear then we transfer bettle to another tub or back in with the big mealies its been like this for about 2 months started it up once we knew we was getting Gecko but was feeding them to our pond fish and a friend had them off us for his bd .We feed them on weetabix oats,potatoe,carrot,buggrub food ,bran ,orange .list goes on we must be doing something right we are over run with them



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well done you!! i should take a pic of my lot really shouldnt i? lol
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Old 18-07-2008, 10:42 AM
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well done you!! i should take a pic of my lot really shouldnt i? lol
Yes ,it would be interesting to know if you been doing the mealworm breeding for sometime ,if the beetle die do you leave them in or take out the shells etc and how do you seive them out with out the food you feed them ?? Also i have a few white meal worms which i haven't seen before are they lacking in something is this why they are white .
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as they grow they shed, so they are white till they get their shell again
i keep mine in it for months, in 1 year i have cleaned them out once, with a sieve the poo i kept in pots, and still have babies hatchign from it, a it was full of eggs!


this is what i was talkign about layering people, bugs at teh top, mealies in the middle gettgin smaller and smaller, eggs and babies at the bottom sifting otu the pooooo




dead things stay in there inlcuding beetles, and banna skins etc they turn them in to homes!
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Yes ,it would be interesting to know if you been doing the mealworm breeding for sometime ,if the beetle die do you leave them in or take out the shells etc and how do you seive them out with out the food you feed them ?? Also i have a few white meal worms which i haven't seen before are they lacking in something is this why they are white .
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Fantastic post,thankyou .Hopefully mine will look like that soon might just keep babies in there too and not in a pot on their own .
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as long as there is food, they wont get eaten
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Fantastic post,thankyou .Hopefully mine will look like that soon might just keep babies in there too and not in a pot on their own .
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as long as there is food, they wont get eaten
Thank you ,how far up the tub can i let them go etc will they die if they get too warm with so many in a tub ?? Sorry so many questions
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How do you get babies out Gina ? lol
And what size is that tub please ??
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Thank you ,how far up the tub can i let them go etc will they die if they get too warm with so many in a tub ?? Sorry so many questions
they are fine.
mine are kept in my warm reptile room too, they have lots of space
p.s once a week i fill it wilth oats/cornflake dog biscuits to the line on the box, in a week/ 2 weeks they eat half of it
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How do you get babies out Gina ? lol
And what size is that tub please ??
i dip in with a spoooon
about 1.5x1.5 (foot) from lakeland
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lol, I might give it a go.
How many adults did you start with ?
What size is the tub ?
Sorry for all the questions lol
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tub size above :P
i top it up every now and then, get 500 grams, and go on from then, use them , and leave some, some will turn in to beetles some you can use and so on.
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lol, I might give it a go.
How many adults did you start with ?
What size is the tub ?
Sorry for all the questions lol
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