Mealworms: A Guide to Raising and Breeding Mealworms for your Reptiles
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A quick guide on how to raise and breeder mealworms. We breed Mealworms for our Bearded Dragons here at BeardedDragonSource.com and have compiled this video to demonstrate how easy it is to raise your own mealworms to provide an excellent treat for whatever creature you may be feeding it to.
Items needed:
About 500 Mealworms
Oatmeal
Containers (Ideally about the size of a shoebox)
Extra protein and calcium rich feeder food (optional)
Cut up potato or other water holding vegetable (optional)
Breeding mealworms takes about 14 weeks from start to finish of a new cycle.
You start by letting some of your Mealworms turn in to larvae and then beetles. After several weeks, when you get a bunch of beetles in your container you can start another fresh container and move all your beetles in to that container.
After a few more weeks those beetles will have laid eggs and most likely died. You will want to be sure you have plenty of beetles because even though every beetle lays several hundreds if not thousands of eggs, not all make it to life.
Once the beetles start dying off you may begin to notice some mealworms starting to show up. The eggs are virtually invisible to the naked eye, but you can see very small baby mealworms starting to grow.
Leave this container alone for a few more weeks and those mealworms will continue to grow into ideal feeding size. It is at this point you can let some worms continue to grow into beetles, and feed the rest to your animals.
If you set up multiple containers, you will always have fresh worms growing full size as you need them.
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