Better Container for Superworms?

[Haligren]

I keep having superworms escape from the homemade container. Not that they can go anywhere, since I placed the container in a larger plastic tub. The container is made of plastic and is about four inches deep and seven or eight inches long. The top of it has been cut out and replaced with a wire mesh screen that is taped to the lid with duct tape from the inside. I did have it on the outside but found that the supers were escaping. I then put the tape on the inside but now the supers are escaping again. Apparently they cling to the mesh, work their way over to the duct tape where it has come away from the screen just a bit and slip underneath that and then somehow (I have yet to find out exactly how they are doing this) they find an exit. They don't make duct tape like they used to and it comes away from the wire mesh rather easily. I keep pressing it back into place but it comes away again anyway. I get up in the mornings to find one or two supers wandering around the tub and a few more cuddled up underneath the tape in the lid.

I put the wire screen on the lid because before I only had some small holes pierced through the lid and it wasn't offering enough ventilation. I kept getting mold and too much moisture. I also found that my supers were too cold and weren't eating like they should, so I now have a heating pad underneath their tub. It seems to have increased their appetites a little and they are most certainly getting bigger and fatter.

This is just really frustrating. Nothing I make seems to work. I had the crickets in a makeshift Becel container and stupid me put a plastic screen in the lid. Well it turns out that crickets just love chewing through plastic. We were finding crickets for two weeks. I finally bought a cricket keeper and haven't had any escapees.

Meanwhile, the container I made for the supers is also defective. Do they make superworm keepers like they do cricket keepers? What do you guys suggest?

 

[ariana]

i got a cookie holding like tub, from walmart, its plastic.
and i drilled holes in it with a small bit so they cant get out and thats what i use, never had an escapee

 

[acpart]

I use the largest faunarium which is about 17"X12"X5" and no one has ever escaped.

Aliza

 

[daleo]

i keep mine in a shoe box sized container with holes in the side and top, i have no problems.

dale

 

[GeckoTrouble]

I use the small cricket keeper like tubs (the ones without the cricket tubes)

 

[catvettech]

I had one (hopefully just one) escape and you should have seen the size of the alien it morphed into. Fed it to the chicken.

 

[Mel&Keith]

We just use Iris tubs, no lids. Our only escapees are the ones I accidentally drop on the floor.

 

[pipedream]

I use a sterilite drawer. Not a single one has ever escaped. They are kept beside and under the gecko tanks and stay warm. They eat and grow like crazy and its very easy for me to just slide open the drawer and grab a few to feed to my boys and girls out of the bottom drawer. Of course I only keep around 500 total and 100 to feed

 

[Haligren]

Hey all, thank you for all the recommendations. When I went to the petstore the other day, I noticed that they had some small faunariums. I don't know why I never thought of using them.

I don't need anything large as the max amount of supers I have at one time is probably 50.

 

[Haligren]

I had one (hopefully just one) escape and you should have seen the size of the alien it morphed into. Fed it to the chicken.

I had one somehow hide itself in a curled up piece of mandarin orange peel long enough to morph. I don't think it lived but it was pretty gross. lol Unfortunately I don't have chickens.

 

[BlackDiamondGeckos]

Our only escapees are the ones I accidentally drop on the floor.

+1

I use the little 3 x sterilite drawer with no lids. Only escapees are the ones i drop

 

[LizMarie]

I use those clear shoe box containers from the container store and I poked holes all over the cover so there could be enough ventilation.

 

[leonewbie]

I use a big under the bed box, but i order my supers 1k at a time....they really stink in high quantities

 

[Haligren]

I use those clear shoe box containers from the container store and I poked holes all over the cover so there could be enough ventilation.

I guess that's kinda what mine is; about the size of a small shoebox. And I did have holes in the top, but I guess they weren't wide enough or I didn't have enough of them because it was still trapping moisture and then the bedding would mold up.

 

[Haligren]

+1

I use the little 3 x sterilite drawer with no lids. Only escapees are the ones i drop

Hmm. I do have something like that but it's filled with papers. I've been meaning to go through it and organize it. I had though of using atleast one of the drawers for supers and then the rest of the drawers could be used for storing the supples. Hmmmm... The only problem with it is that I don't think the drawers remove entirely. Which would make it inconvenient to clean.

Thanks, guys. You've given me some things to think about!

 

[ariana]

i had 3 that got out of my mhds cage, and they all morphed, i have 2 beetles and they ate the other alien groooooooss!
im gonna feel stupid, but whats a faunarium?