Anyone here actually raise their own supers?

[sammer021486]

I am curious to know if anyone here breeds their own superworm colony. I have a very promising mealworm colony starting, but would like to get a superworm colony going. I have heard that you should use film canisters to force the supers to morph, but how many have actually tried that technique. I have had supers pupate in the past and turn into beetles, but only had one gecko and threw the beetles out once they died, because he never ate them.

My set up for the mealworms and superworms are the same, just different container sizes. I use non-fortified chicken mash made for egg laying hens and my own water gel from distilled water. They are kept at a room temperature of 70-75F. Just yesterday I had around 20 mealworm pupae from checking the container on thursday.

 

[OneFootedAce]

I dont breed them, but im sure many people here do.

 

[Srt14292]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LUiPPVTOhY

There you are dude.

 

[LizMarie]

I had one successful run with Supers then all the beetles die and I dunno why..

And I personally used cheap disposable plastic cups to force the worms to pupate. Then through them together in some pro gecko gut-load with some carrots. They did fine and I had like 100's or worms. After that I switched them into a NEW container while I sifted out the worms. The new container was identical but for some reason I woke up and they were all dead, very strange.

 

[gothra]

I do breed my own supers. You need to isolate the full grown worm to encourage it to pupate. If you only have 1 gecko, 4-5 beetles will produce more than enough baby worms for you.

 

[sammer021486]

I do breed my own supers. You need to isolate the full grown worm to encourage it to pupate. If you only have 1 gecko, 4-5 beetles will produce more than enough baby worms for you.

I have 6 leos now, but at the time I only had one when I got my supers to pupate to beetles.

5 of my 6 leos eat the supers and prefer the super to the meal worm.

 

[acpart]

I did in a limited way, but it took too long. Since I can get 1000 supers at a good price and that lasts for a few months in these nearly-not-eating winter days, I'm just going with that. Cody from progeckos wrote an article for gecko time (www.gecktime.com) about breeding superworms that's still a very popular one even though it came out more than 6 months ago.

Aliza

 

[sammer021486]

thank you for the links to the youtube video and the geckotime article.
I am going to have to try it. I have taken over 50 meal worm pupae out of my mealworm colony in the past 4 days. Because of where I live it is difficult to ensure that my feeders get here alive by mail.