I want to breed my own meal worms... Anyone have any information on how to do this or know of a web site with the information on it?
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Breeding meal worms
reddrum
Mar 01, 2005 10:24 PM
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peachstategeckos
Mar 01, 2005 11:06 PM
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Katie F.
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Breeding Mealworms
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JDouglas
Mar 02, 2005 12:10 AM
Breeding mealworms is VERY simple. Just keep the worms at room temp and they will molt into pupae. Put the pupae into another container with bran, rolled oats, chicken feed, or a mealworm/cricket feed a couple inches deep. The pupae will turn into beetles and then mate and lay eggs. Give the beetles some hunks of potato and they will do great. Just move the beetles to a new container of food every couple weeks until they all die. Keep the containers they were previoulsy in becuase soon you will have thousands of mealworms in these old beetle containers.
Good luck
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Jaremy Douglas
chibicricket
Mar 02, 2005 09:25 AM
I give them apples and carrots too. The only thing is that if you put the apples in, you have to put it on top a piece of plastic or something, so it won't get everything moist. Baby cereal works great as a bedding also. I've also found out recently, that they have to stay at relatively warm temperatures, or they won't breed as quickly. I had stuck mine in my 50-60 degree basement, and they didn't do so well, until I brought them upstairs and put them in the cabinet under my gecko's tank.
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