tiny worms showing up in cage?

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So yesterday I was walking by my leo's cage and saw a tiny little worm, looked kind of like a superworm, just 1/8 the size, crawling across the floor of the cage, and my leo saw it too and went after it and ate it.

It was about the size of a smaller mealworm, but I haven't fed my leo any mealworms in more than a month. And it looked more like a superworm than a mealworm, just much tinier.

I did feed my leo two superworms a couple days ago, and he ate one, the other one escape and hid somewhere in his cage. But how did the one that escaped shrink down to 1/8th the size? Or did it have a baby or something?

I think this has happened once before, if I remember correctly

 

[adam&nikki]

i remeber feeding supers to my leos befor and i was cleaning my tank one day and this huge bettle came running at me so its possible that a couple got lose and bred

 

[Dakota_Ghost]

Do you have any logs or bits of wood etc in you tank? If you do, then perhaps things are living in there, and they need to be sterilised. Or, perhaps a mealworm escaped when you used to feed them and hid in the logs?

Also, what substrate do you use? If it's anything but paper towel, reptile carpet etc, then it's possible a few worms could have escaped, and burrowed into the substrate. Or beetles may have even bred like Adam and Nikki said earlier.

 

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Using tile as substrate, but I have a lot of things in his cage so it's definitely possible for things to hide in there, like in the moss I have stuffed in a dark hollow rubber tree.


BUT, how can superworms or mealworms have babies? Aren't they just babies themselves, not yet beetles (adults)?

And I've never had two superworms escape, just only one at a time, so they couldn't have reproduced. I've never found any beetles, and I just cleaned out his cage a week ago and there were no beetles or any alive mealworms or superworms!

Strange!

 

[Lpac]

you might of fed a gravid superworm

 

[jfreels]

you might of fed a gravid superworm

No such thing

 

[bman123]

you might of fed a gravid superworm

That made my day lol.

 

[leoman777]

you might of fed a gravid superworm

LOL brain fart

 

[RampantReptiles]

sounds like a mealworm baby. Probably mealworms from a month or whatever ago that pupated and turned into beetles and making little babies in some dark corner. I have bred the occasional mealworm that is very dark and looks like a super. This might have something to do with diet or environment Im not sure.