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3.0 Hypo Tang Leos, 1.0 Blizzard Leo, 0.1 het Blizzard Leo, 2.1 Tremper Tang/Albino Leos, 1.0 Knight Anole, 0.1 Mali Uromastyx, 1.1 Green Iguana, 1.1 Ball Pythons, 1.0 Green Anole, a Common Snapping Turt, 1 Dark Fire/1 Normal Crested Geckos, 0.1 Columbian Red-Tail Boa
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Sure...

1. Get 2 large tubs... not too big... maybe like a few gallons... or shoebox... bigger is fine

2. Fill them with cereal bran, you can also use bran from feed stores and chicken lexanna... but make sure it doesn't have steroids/chemicals/etc... in it.

3. Now put about 2000 mealworms in one of the boxes...

4. Every day or every other day throw a half of a potatoe or pieces of carrots in... Don't let them rot, that is very bad.

Now, you can leave them at room temperature, but around 80 they are more active and should pupate faster...

4. As beetles hatch move them to second tray... This will help so the regular mealworms don't cannibalize the eggs as much.

5. After a lifecycle or two change the bran substrate... you may want to let it sit to see if their are any more eggs that hatch, just to be sure

Ehh I didn't mean fill, just add like 2 inches

LOL... in my anole cage... i had fed mealworms... and well, lets just say that i had my own mealworm breeding colony on the bottom of their tank before i realized it... i have no idea how the beetles stayed alive, but they did, and cleaning that tank was DISGUSTING!!!
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Matt
My Reps:
1.0.0 Brown (Bahaman) Anole
0.1.0 Green Anole
2.1.0 leopard geckos a Norm, an Abberrant, and my newest... a Blizzard!

It's not all that hard actually. Paradisio had a good method that works for most people. I tend to find moving the pupae are easier than moving the beetles.

If you wanna be REALLY lazy you can just get a couple hundred mealworms and leave them in a box full of oats and bran and give them carrots/potatoes everyday. They'll do their own thing.

Or if you want to maximize your production, you should separate into 4 bins: pupae beetles, after all the beetles die (you get just eggs and tiny mealworms), The right sized mealworms for your geckos, and the big mealworms that look like their going to pupate.

Gutloading the "right sized" mealworm bin is very important, so while the rest of the bins can have just oats, you need to put extra nutritious food in the "right" bin. I sprinkle in some t-rex cricket gutload, some powdered milk, oat bran, wheat bran, wheat germ, special K cereal, spirulina (very expensive stuff, like $10 for a fist full), bee pollen, sunflower seeds, dried egg yolk, and Purina One Dog food (I blend all of these in a coffe grinder). I give the "right" bin carrots, carrot greens, small potatoes, apples and yams (smells like the wholefood's store in there).

This makes my mealworms very fat and juicy and very active (they flick around like mad when I try to pick them up and when my gecko goes to munch on one he has a hell of a fight if he chooses the big ones).