Mealworm Life Cycle

[Rou]

Originally Posted by freekygeeky

they can eat meat yea
people use them like maggots to strip carcasses..

but i wouldnnt advise feeding them, if your breeding them

Thank you for that

I don't breed my mealies as I only have two leos at the moment so one tub from my local herp shop serves them good for a very long time. Breeding i'm sure though is a much better method if you have a lot of reps though.

Anyone else find feeding mealies on fish food/pellets causes them to smell?

[freekygeeky]

Originally Posted by Rou

Thank you for that

I don't breed my mealies as I only have two leos at the moment so one tub from my local herp shop serves them good for a very long time. Breeding i'm sure though is a much better method if you have a lot of reps though.

Anyone else find feeding mealies on fish food/pellets causes them to smell?

im sure they would smell on fish food etc it reeeeeeks ! lol
my mix makes them smell nice lol!



p.s my mealies are now gettign the baby appels which are falling off the treeeeees

[the-tick]

I found 2 baby mealies YAY, I know it's only two but it's a start

[freekygeeky]

lol if you have two, you probably have 100! lol

Originally Posted by the-tick

I found 2 baby mealies YAY, I know it's only two but it's a start

[the-tick]

no only two as I was cleaning out the mealie tub to put fresh substrate in :-(

[Esfa]

i saw one alien, but still havnt seen a beetle

[freekygeeky]

keep the substrate! the substrate will have the eggs in, i dont ever clean mine out...

Originally Posted by the-tick

no only two as I was cleaning out the mealie tub to put fresh substrate in :-(

[the-tick]

Originally Posted by freekygeeky

keep the substrate! the substrate will have the eggs in, i dont ever clean mine out...

DOH!

I clean mine out every few weeks due to the smell

[freekygeeky]

they dont smell!!
well i geuss it depends what you ffeeeed them...

the eggs are in the substrate you seeeeeeeeee
you probably chuckign them out!!!!##

Originally Posted by the-tick

DOH!

I clean mine out every few weeks due to the smell

[GECKO62]

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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mini mealies

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