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Hello
I purchased 1000 superworms . I put them in large container with oatmeal as bedding- feed them misted apple slice daily (have had them 2 days).
I keep them in roughly 80 degree temp .

I am not sure if going to breed them or just want them gut loaded before feeding to geckos .

Either way my question is can they live for weeks at the set up I have ?

Thanks

>>Hello
>> I purchased 1000 superworms . I put them in large container with oatmeal as bedding- feed them misted apple slice daily (have had them 2 days).
>> I keep them in roughly 80 degree temp .
>>
>> I am not sure if going to breed them or just want them gut loaded before feeding to geckos .
>>
>> Either way my question is can they live for weeks at the set up I have ?
>>
>> Thanks

The warmer you keep them the shorter the time before they chrysalise. I would say, keep them at high 60s.
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By chrysalise you mean turn into beetles ?

I was told they wont do that like regular mealworms will in a community setting with a bunch together.

However high 60s sounds good as if they last awhile that way which is what I want .

Thanks

I don't know much about the particulars of superworms but I use them to add variety to my bearded dragons & monitors diets.

I'm sure they're age at the time we get 'em is a factor but I ordered either 500 or 1,000 2 - 3 months ago, or maybe even longer, and put 'em in a 58-quart Sterlite container with a mixture of chicken scratch, laying mash (for chickens), and oatmeal bedding and an egg carton. I've still got some left. I'd venture to say that less than 30 have died (not 30%, 30-count).

The only ones that have pupated are a few that escaped one of my monitor's feeding bowl and pupated in the aspen bedding. The monitor usually beats me to 'em.

I'll be ordering more soon and will probably try my hand in raising 'em.

Have a good one!
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If they're genuine superworms and not kingworms or giant mealworms they going to pupate unless they are by themselves. Temperature has nothing to do with it. Matter of fact, you get them much under 70F they start dying off.
You keep them together, warm, with lots of food, and fruit or veggie slices on top for water content they will last a long, long time.
With the giant mealworms, everybody keeps 'em in the fridge to stop them from pupating, which is fine. You do that to superworms, they will all die in a few hours.
If you see any that are by themselves, curled up and motionless, but if you touch them they flip around, they are in the beginning stages of pupating. Dead ones straighten out, get soft and turn black.

not going to pupate unless they're by themselves.
They need to be alone to pupate.

thanks thats what I thought

Thanks for the info mine are in oatmeal and feed them apple slices or strawberries as I eat lots of them.

I am going to seperate a few in individual jars see if they pupate as might raise some . My geckoes and chamaleons love them and I like to throw a few on my backyards patio cover at night and can actually hear the big wild house geckoes running to get them.