Alien Nation!

[eyelids]

Post your alien pics!

Sorted these out a bit ago... Bad pic, but it's a lot of aliens... :main_yes:

 

[spykerherps]

Nice. I'm about at that stage right know with mine most of the mealies have turned to aliens and have some beetles. I think I'm on my third generation , but no pix . will try to snap some.

 

[Whitey]

May I ask how many mealies you buy at one time??? Thats a crap load of mealies.

 

[eyelids]

I've been breeding mealies a few years... I don't like to refrigerate them so everyday I have to pull aliens from the mealie bins and move them to the ''mothership''... I also put any beetles found aboard the ''mothership'' into the ''arena''...

The Romans got nothing on these guys!

 

[leoman5654]

How long does it take for you to start seeing mealies in the beetle bin after they have been put in? I started raising mealworms about a month and a half ago and now have about 20 beetles(only started with 150). When will baby mealies start to appear? The beetles are about three weeks old.

 

[leoman777]

i got my mealie colony started and i pull out aliens out everyday and getting beetles everyday its crazy!!

 

[eyelids]

I use to keep a heating pad under my bins and I'd have baby mealies in less than a month... Now I do it at room temp and it can be a few months before I have mealies big enough to feed to my gex... So even though I have beetles constintly producing more mealies I still have to buy 5000-10000 a month...

 

[leoman777]

i should get a heat mat but im going to buy some more mealies at the show in april so i can have more lol

 

[Nigel4less]

Great looking colony, too bad I get the sniffles from these guys...

 

[BethanyB]

Aaallliiieeennz!

That pic is from a while back, and was at a peak time in my pupae count. I've hit a lull right now, but wow do I have a lot of big mealies just waiting to change, should be back up to that many real soon!

 

[Geck-O]

OMG...... That's a lot of aliens

 

[reddmann]

I have a question. I put about 200 mealies in the box a couple of weeks ago. I saw some white mealies in there today but aren't they white just after they shed? How do you know when they're "aliens"? Thanks

 

[Kristi23]

I don't have a recent pic on the computer, but I have about 1000+ right now. I've been pulling 200 or so from the worm drawers everyday. Some of them change so quickly.

 

[LeapinLizards]

I have a question. I put about 200 mealies in the box a couple of weeks ago. I saw some white mealies in there today but aren't they white just after they shed? How do you know when they're "aliens"? Thanks

These are aliens:

 

[JordanAng420]

Reading this thread makes me remember when I first got into reptiles & I opened a tub of mealies I had for awhile and all I saw were these and 2 beetles...I dropped the tub somewhere and ran outside on the patio.

 

[RepBex]

be warned of wheat mites i lost alll my meelworm beetles and pupa a few weeks bk

 

[reddmann]

so how do you prevent wheat mites? and what do they look like so I'll know if i have them?