Mealworm Life Cycle

[FoxyMumma]

Im just starting up a mealworm farm hopefully, is it best to start out with a bulk buy bag of mealies?? say 1kg or more? and does anyone bother buying bug grub and bug gel? the ones I buy in pre-pak tubs I feed veg, fruit and cereals sprinkled in nutrobal, is there anything else I can do?

[freekygeeky]

i buy a 500gram bag every month or so to top mine up so somehtign aroudn tat size would be great

Originally Posted by FoxyMumma

Im just starting up a mealworm farm hopefully, is it best to start out with a bulk buy bag of mealies?? say 1kg or more? and does anyone bother buying bug grub and bug gel? the ones I buy in pre-pak tubs I feed veg, fruit and cereals sprinkled in nutrobal, is there anything else I can do?

[FoxyMumma]

Originally Posted by freekygeeky

i buy a 500gram bag every month or so to top mine up so somehtign aroudn tat size would be great

Okay great cheers hun How do you provide yours with water? do you use bug gel or would something like cucumber be okay?

[zippy4emma]

Originally Posted by FoxyMumma

Okay great cheers hun How do you provide yours with water? do you use bug gel or would something like cucumber be okay?

i was thinking of using bug gel instead of changing the veg all the time so i would like to know if anyone uses it aswell

[FoxyMumma]

Originally Posted by zippy4emma

i was thinking of using bug gel instead of changing the veg all the time so i would like to know if anyone uses it aswell

Yeah ive noticed that the veg starts going mouldy really quick? do you have that problem too? I was thinking soaking gauze or cotton wool in water...

[zippy4emma]

Originally Posted by FoxyMumma

Yeah ive noticed that the veg starts going mouldy really quick? do you have that problem too? I was thinking soaking gauze or cotton wool in water...

yea it does go mouldy very quick because mine are kept at 25c in the reptile room, i found the best to be a whole carrot cut in half.
ive kept mine going for about 3months and nearly all the adults have turned to aliens, ive got about 200 beetles and probably 2000 baby mealies, hopefully kept at 25c should speed up their growth to feeder size.

[zippy4emma]

il try and put pics up

[FoxyMumma]

Originally Posted by zippy4emma

il try and put pics up

cool its great to see all these pics of setups,
well if heat helps them to breed faster I shall put mine on a low temp heatmat and stat ... I do have a pretty draughty house

[zippy4emma]

Originally Posted by FoxyMumma

cool its great to see all these pics of setups,
well if heat helps them to breed faster I shall put mine on a low temp heatmat and stat ... I do have a pretty draughty house

i think most people keep them at room temp, i havnt got room to keep them anywhere else

[Juzza12]

I feed mine veg, mine never goes mouldy but i do change it every day. I keep mine at room temp but the aliens are kept on the warm spot on top of a viv