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Rickeezee
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 Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:43 am Post subject: mealworm advice please. |
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Right my colony of mealworms is under way.
I started of by separating out the pupae from the mealworms as soon as they turned into the pupae. To prevent the worms nibbling at them.
In turn as the pupae have developed into beetles I have removed the Beetles to a tank with wheat bran in and daily bits of root veg for food. Corrugated cardboard for egg laying.
Question: the beetles are at different ages and all in together. It does not seem practical to remove them when the eggs start to hatch. Will it be OK for the beetles to remain in with the young mealworms? Or will the beetles eat them?
Thanks.
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I have always left them in Rick. I dare say the odd freshly shed larvae will get munched but it doesn`t seem to slow down production to me.
So what is this new method that you have devised of seperating them Rick? Something to do with staircases and 3 a m? Please enlighten us further so that other forum members can benefit from your experience. 
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Rickeezee
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| Peter Parrot wrote: | I have always left them in Rick. I dare say the odd freshly shed larvae will get munched but it doesn`t seem to slow down production to me.
So what is this new method that you have devised of seperating them Rick? Something to do with staircases and 3 a m? Please enlighten us further so that other forum members can benefit from your experience. |
Hmmm thanks for that Pete! Not!
Well if anyone wants to know; I have been a tad accident prone lately and combined wiht my odd hours that I keep it's a bad combo. The other day I tripped over my mealworm larvae tray then commenced to step on the larvae, squish squish, knocked over an open crate of cockroaches, they made mad dash for freedom!, knocked over a whole shelf of locusts, and to top it all of at 3am the other morning I had been taking the beetles out from the pupae tray so from tray to beetle tank in the bathroom, as you do. Carried the tank back to my herp room from bathroom to my herp room, got to the landing by the open plan stairs, tripped and the tank went bouncing down the stairs, lid came off beetles everywhere, still finding them now, woke the whole house up with the noise. I was popular! So we now have the mandatory crickets everywhere, beetles squashed mealworm pupae and roaches on the lose. With the odd locust thron in for good measure.
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Still cuddling up to mealworm`s on the sofa then Rick?
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Rickeezee
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| Peter Parrot wrote: | | Still cuddling up to mealworm`s on the sofa then Rick? |
hm will not even go there, and reveal what I was doing on the sofa when we found beetles had joined in! I hasten to add not Pete and I by the way, god forbid, I am no perv. 
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