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Re: [Killietalk] Meal Worms

Mealies are super easy to keep.
I breed a ton --the bigger ones for my lizards, the freshly molted
ones for my cichlids, and I've recently tried using the freshly molted
babies for my killies--which they seem to like.
I keep them at room temperature for breeding (I find that in the
fridge they shrivel up, turn hard, and eventually die....they also
never moult, which is the healthiest point)

I feed them on a base of whole wheat flour, and I mix in reptile
vitamins, and spirulina powder to gut load them.  You can also use
oatmeal, bran, or any high quality cereal grain, but I like the really
fine stuff so I can sift out the mealies.

All this is ain a shoebox size plastic box--I don't even drill holes,
although you certainly could.  I keep about 500 mealies to a box, and
they pretty much breed themselves.  I try and keep three or so
colony's going--I've never had one crash, but they go through phases
from time to time where there are just tons of eggs and adults, but no
mealies for a few weeks.

When there's no actual food left--it's all talcum fine--I sift out a
few hundred beetles, pupae, and mealies, and put them into new
bedding, then I take all the extra mealies and feed them off.

Using this method, I have always got mealies in plenty, and I've never
had many escapes, or even a lot of them die off.

If you have any further questions, please let me know.....

Bethany


On Apr 5, 2005 5:42 PM, Allan <Ed_Dantes at linkline_com> wrote:
> Anybody out there in killie land raising meal worms?  Or at the very least
> know how to keep them alive long enough to stuff them with protiens and the
> like.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Allan in Hot, Sunny Southern California.
> 
> Time to fire up the air conditioner in the fish room.
> 
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