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Hi,
How many mealworms could i fit in a 18" X 13" X 8" contatiner ?
I have four of them and were going to seperate babys,sub-adult, adult and beettle in seperate containers !

Thanks,
Nick
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Leopard Geckos

1.0 Tangerine
0.3.3 Hi-Yellow
1.1 Tremper Albino
0.1 Patternless het. Albino

>>Hi,
>> How many mealworms could i fit in a 18" X 13" X 8" contatiner ?
>>I have four of them and were going to seperate babys,sub-adult, adult and beettle in seperate containers !
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Nick
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>>Leopard Geckos
>>
>>1.0 Tangerine
>>0.3.3 Hi-Yellow
>>1.1 Tremper Albino
>>0.1 Patternless het. Albino
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1.2.1 Leopard Geckos
Blizzard females, male albino tangerine,
and a trempor albino
Turtles
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise

mine are in 2-3gallon container 1000 doing good with 4-6'' of substrate
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1.2.1 Leopard Geckos
Blizzard females, male albino tangerine,
and a trempor albino
Turtles
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise

I bought two containers of mealworms a while back. One looked like it had wood shavings in it, the other a fine grain stuff. I just left them in that but i'd like to know whats the best substrate to keep mealworms on?
Thanks
Red

Well I did what I was told by people on this forum. Got oatmeal, weatgerm, powdered milk, baby cereal, whole grain wheat flour, can of fish food, and I think 2 other things. They live in there food also give them veggies ect
Xavier
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1.2.1 Leopard Geckos
Blizzard females, male albino tangerine,
and a trempor albino
Turtles
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise

Thanks Kurma, thats great.

Ok heres the big thing. I had a large container with mealworms in it. It was filled with oatmeal, wheat germ and fish food, but i *thought* all the mealworms had died. There were a few beetles on their backs, and i couldn't find any mealworms at all. I took out the dead beetles thinking that was it, and left it so i could put a new batch of worms in (which i didn't end up doing, i left the worms i bought in the container i got them in). WELL........i just opened it to see if i should change the substrate and the whole thing is FULL of mealworms and beetles......i mean like hundreds of tiny tiny little worms............THIS IS GREAT!!! I have my own colony Obviously i missed a few mealworms eh!?! hehehehehe I have no clue how they could have survived for 3 weeks too!!!

Red

cool I just had some beetles for the first time :0)
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1.2.1 Leopard Geckos
Blizzard females, male albino tangerine,
and a trempor albino
Turtles
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise

Yea, that happened to me too!! I went back and there were thousands of tiny mealworms. I have quit a few beetles too. Does anybody else have this problem? I've had the baby mealworms in a container for about 2 months and they won't grow. They shed and i have food for them they just aren't getting bigger. What do i do? Katie
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Owner of 1.2 Leopard Geckos, 3.0 Fire Belly Toads, 0.0.3 Treefrogs, 1.1 Bahaman Anoles 1.0 Japanese Fire Belly Newt
and 0.0.1 Turtle "GOT-A-LUV-UM"