How To Breed: Waxworms

[mad baboon]

unlucky i put like 4 layers on, ive found that getting super fine metal mesh works better cause they cant eat through it

[SCOTT4545]

Ive put the pot in a bigger tub now with some water in the bottom to stop the escapists gettin in and around my house Ive got loads of babies so hopefully i have some left

[JaMMiT]

Thanks for the guide it was very helpful might start doing it soon! Off topic :Thats all but i cant Wait to get A new reptile soon

[shep1979]

well thanks for this thread, as i had a load of moths i decided to give it a go and it worked realy well i have 1000's of wax worms of all sizes now, no more buying wax worms for me from now on as it was so easy to breed them

[mad baboon]

shep1979, im glad this helps, i dont know why the waxworms are soo expensive in the shops cause you can buy 50 for £2.50 and make like 20x as many xD

[turbo1869]

How long it take normally to see any babies? And what the look like please (pics) and when do you take babies out to help them grow faster and when to feed to dragons?

[BlackRose]

Oo I have to try this. Doesn't the mixture the waxies eat make the animals you feed the waxies to bad?

[mad baboon]

turbo and blackrose... um it depends the first time i bred them i thought it didnt work and i broke up the mixture and there was hundreds of really tiny white worms, you almost cant see them but once you see the rly small ones keep them warm and they will grow very very fast. and waxworms are very fatty anyway but they naturaly live in bee hives so i would have thought it was healthyer with the wheat? but i think this is generaly what livefood breeders use but just on a larger scale with "other additives" mixed in so they dont spin cacoons/ a web.

[jamesbusby221]

gunna have to try this will save lots of pennies and can buy more reptiles with it

[mad baboon]

good luck. i really dont know why they charge soo much for them in the shops cause about 50 moths can easily make over 1000 babies