Started my Mealworm colony

[Taquiq]

I started my mealworm breeding colony yesterday. Here are some pics.

Mealworms

Beatles- A lot of them are under the wheat bran.

Pupae-

Ordered 1K today

 

[jfreels]

Nice! I can't tell how much bedding you're putting in their though....I can see what appears to be the bottom of the container in all the pics. Are those the 12" drawers?

 

[Imperial Geckos]

Wow Joey, that's really awesome! I can't believe you already have that many pupae! Lol

Congrats and Goodluck!

 

[Taquiq]

Wow Joey, that's really awesome! I can't believe you already have that many pupae! Lol

Congrats and Goodluck!

Thankyou! I order 1k mealies about every month from Flukers and a lot of them turn into Pupae and beatles so I though why not waste them?

Nice! I can't tell how much bedding you're putting in their though....I can see what appears to be the bottom of the container in all the pics. Are those the 12" drawers?

Thanks! I have about an 1/2 inch of bedding on the bottom. They are in tubs stacked on top of each other.
Here is a picture-

 

[thegeckoguy23]

Awesome!

 

[Taquiq]

Thanks!

 

[thegeckoguy23]

Thanks!

Why do you have bedding for the pupa?

 

[Taquiq]

They will eventually turn into Beatles and I check the tubs every day. Just a little more food until I move them to the beetle tub. Also the Pupae don't move around as much, it's just easier.

 

[jfreels]

Yeah, you really don't need any bedding for the pupae. Though if you can't separate the beetles in a timely fashion, they will need to eat something (which could be other pupae). If a 1/2 inch is working good for you, then I guess keep it. I do at least an inch though. When you get a lot, they will eat through that bedding pretty fast.

I use to keep mine on oats, back in Feb. That container was reduced to pretty much 90% powder and probably nutritionally void of everything they need.

I have found that even an inch is going pretty fast too, but I have probably 1k in an 8" drawer.

 

[Taquiq]

Yeah, you really don't need any bedding for the pupae. Though if you can't separate the beetles in a timely fashion, they will need to eat something (which could be other pupae). If a 1/2 inch is working good for you, then I guess keep it. I do at least an inch though. When you get a lot, they will eat through that bedding pretty fast.

I use to keep mine on oats, back in Feb. That container was reduced to pretty much 90% powder and probably nutritionally void of everything they need.

I have found that even an inch is going pretty fast too, but I have probably 1k in an 8" drawer.

Yeah I am going to add an inch. The reason I have 1/2 inch now is because I only have about 100 mealworms in it. But the ones I ordered should come today.