1. Silkworm eggs will only be good for about 9-10 months stored in fridge (at ~36F).
2. To avoid silkmoths getting stuck in its own cocoon (silk), you can cut open the cocoon after 10-14 days, pour out the pupa, then just incubate the pupa.
3. It doesn't work well if you keep the feeder dubia and discoids in the same container; as the discoids are more aggressive, they eat all the food and grow like weed, but most of the dubias are going no where.
4. My mealworm colony is doing so much better when I stopped offering them green vegetable leaves. It seems no matter how hard I wash and soak the leaves, I just couldn't get all those farm chemicals off. I'm getting more mealworms from just feeding them carrots and pumpkins.
5. Most of my geckos love silkmoths (male - no eggs, no risk for impaction).
6. Cricket sucks...
2. To avoid silkmoths getting stuck in its own cocoon (silk), you can cut open the cocoon after 10-14 days, pour out the pupa, then just incubate the pupa.
3. It doesn't work well if you keep the feeder dubia and discoids in the same container; as the discoids are more aggressive, they eat all the food and grow like weed, but most of the dubias are going no where.
4. My mealworm colony is doing so much better when I stopped offering them green vegetable leaves. It seems no matter how hard I wash and soak the leaves, I just couldn't get all those farm chemicals off. I'm getting more mealworms from just feeding them carrots and pumpkins.
5. Most of my geckos love silkmoths (male - no eggs, no risk for impaction).
6. Cricket sucks...
