warhawk77
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We have a Bearded dragon(about 1 month old), a Leopard Gecko (5 months old) and I'm planning on 2 more Leopard gecko in a few weeks so I wanted to get out feeding system set up so we don't have to go to the store 3-4 times away for food.
We planed on raising meal worms for all our lizards but that is not working out as easy as I had hoped. Our bearded dragon (we are calling it a he until we find out other wise) is very picky on what he will eat. He will only eat 1-2 meal worms but if you drop a cricket into his tank he will eat 8-12 no problem. We tried to do meal worms one day and crickets the next but he just won't eat them. Our Leo loves meal worms so at least some one is eating the worms we are buying. We bought 200 meal worms and put them in a 2 quart container. We used oats for bedding/food and added carrots for extra food/moisture but after about 2 weeks they don't seem to be growing, with some dieing. I think our problem is we bought them from a pet store that keep them in the refrigerator. I think if we started with better stock it would have worked a lot better. With them dieing off and not growing we are just feeding them right to the lizards. I will need to get more make the raising thing work.
I started doing more research on crickets and over the weekend we set up what I hope will turn out to be a nice set up for raising crickets. Here is my set up
18 gallon Sterilite tub drilled about 50-75 very small holes in the top
cardboard for them to crawl around on
carrots and dog food for food
paper towel soaked with water
1 quart container with moist dirt for them to lay eggs in. (should have used smaller I think)
48-50 large crickets
Our garage normally gets pretty warm so it should be hot enough for them. I check them everyday. So far no dead ones. I plan on leaving the container of dirt in there about 72-96 hours then take it out. Then I will put the container in 2-3 quart container with heat and let the eggs hatch. After about a week they should start to hatch and I will just need to keep them feed and watered.
I'm thinking after a month I will have small crickets to feed the bearded dragon and another month they should be large crickets for the Gecko. If the setup works I will take pics and do a write up but if it fails don't want to get anyone else off on the wrong foot.
I know it's a pretty simple set up but any advice to a newbie?
We planed on raising meal worms for all our lizards but that is not working out as easy as I had hoped. Our bearded dragon (we are calling it a he until we find out other wise) is very picky on what he will eat. He will only eat 1-2 meal worms but if you drop a cricket into his tank he will eat 8-12 no problem. We tried to do meal worms one day and crickets the next but he just won't eat them. Our Leo loves meal worms so at least some one is eating the worms we are buying. We bought 200 meal worms and put them in a 2 quart container. We used oats for bedding/food and added carrots for extra food/moisture but after about 2 weeks they don't seem to be growing, with some dieing. I think our problem is we bought them from a pet store that keep them in the refrigerator. I think if we started with better stock it would have worked a lot better. With them dieing off and not growing we are just feeding them right to the lizards. I will need to get more make the raising thing work.
I started doing more research on crickets and over the weekend we set up what I hope will turn out to be a nice set up for raising crickets. Here is my set up
18 gallon Sterilite tub drilled about 50-75 very small holes in the top
cardboard for them to crawl around on
carrots and dog food for food
paper towel soaked with water
1 quart container with moist dirt for them to lay eggs in. (should have used smaller I think)
48-50 large crickets
Our garage normally gets pretty warm so it should be hot enough for them. I check them everyday. So far no dead ones. I plan on leaving the container of dirt in there about 72-96 hours then take it out. Then I will put the container in 2-3 quart container with heat and let the eggs hatch. After about a week they should start to hatch and I will just need to keep them feed and watered.
I'm thinking after a month I will have small crickets to feed the bearded dragon and another month they should be large crickets for the Gecko. If the setup works I will take pics and do a write up but if it fails don't want to get anyone else off on the wrong foot.
I know it's a pretty simple set up but any advice to a newbie?