Well first a hello from a fellow canuck. But when i was breeding my own mealworms i found that a dry base of rolled oats and bran about 3/4-1" deep with egg carton chunks and paper rolls did the trick. I started with a colony of about 1000 worms and allowed them all to mature and after that i had a steady supply for months on end which helped feed my 30+ leos at that time.
LUVVII
Dec 8, 2004 10:25 PM
wow thats alot of geckos! well thanks for the advice..hopefully this will work for me as well...i'll post the results :) oh i just wanted to kno, what type of bran? cereal bran?
LUVVII
Dec 10, 2004 5:10 PM
OK i put their container under a bright light and removed all the bark out and i saw very small mealworms!!! so i guess they were laying eggs after all! i seperated the babies from the adults...hopefully theres much more to come...now onto those damn crickets
Collaredkeeper
Dec 11, 2004 11:02 PM
Rating: 5/5
Are those Stink Bugs!
I have seen them before, but never imagined they were the adult forms of mealworms.
iooxooi
Jan 3, 2005 6:02 PM
No...those are darkling beetles.SOmething i like to to is go to feeder websites and read what they do or email them.Not everyday you see a girl with a handfull of beetles
LUVVII
Jan 4, 2005 8:29 PM
is that what theyre called? hmm i just call them mealoworm beetles..or the adults.
and they may not be stink beetles..but they do produce a NASTY odour if u handle them too much.
pac-man
Feb 2, 2005 1:05 PM
do u really need 2 refridgerate the mealworms?cuz the only differnce i noticed was the unrefridgerated meal worms we more hyper.and i had mealworms lay eggs in the food bowl i didnt no wat they wre but i figured it was alright 2 keep them in there.wen they hatched my tree frog was hogging all of them.(i think they should sell the bettles)
LUVVII
Feb 3, 2005 9:46 AM
the only reason ud put them in the fridge is to slow the process of the mealworm turning into a beetle...if u wanted to extend the life of the mealworm..i think its kind of cruel..but then again..theyre just bugs lol i keep mine in a huge container under my bed..the beetles are in a seperate container along with their tiny babies
sibley
Feb 5, 2005 4:06 AM
Rating: 3/5
hi i breed mealworms all i do is get a big tub and poor bran into it dump the meal worms in there keep um just above room temp (i live in the uk) feed them once a week a bit of potato and thats it they do the rest wile i sit back and relax
