kingofnobbys":1fgtos1h said:
BeardieSmaug":1fgtos1h said:
Drache613":1fgtos1h said:
Hello,
This can definitely happen but shouldn't happen at an alarming rate.
Did you purchase them or have you bred your own beetles & they hatched out, etc?
I breed our own superworms, & I use organic chicken laying mash as bedding for our
superworms. It is vitamin & mineral rich with a good protein content also. You might want
to look into that to be sure they are getting adequate nutrition.
Carrots are great & I also use potatoes too, but everything organic so there aren't any chemicals
or pesticides present.
Tracie
I'm just witnessing two of them eating a dead one, so im guessing this is happening for the last week or so. No breeding or anything, bought them from dubiaroaches.com and kept in oats. I put in carrots and sometimes potatoes. doubt any chemicals or presticide is present in the container. Why are they doing this? Are they just extra hungry? Should I be putting in carrots/potatoes all the time? (i always put once a week, they are usually eaten in 2-3 days)
I just put in some fresh pieces of carrot and collard greens right now though.
Thanks for the reply!
I find if the bedding hasn't been topped up , or the carrot chunks are bad, they will eat each other.
I commonly find 2 or 3 dead in my superworm tub , last time I ordered superworms was 200 over 6 months ago , and I still have a lot of these alive in laval stage.
What do you mean by topped up? Like fill up the container with enough bedding? I have mine filled up about 2 inches high on a medium-large tupperware. And for the food, I usually slice up a combination of thin circles and strips of carrot and put it in, this time along with some collard greens. And I still found some being half eaten, less dead though, but still appearing dead in the mornings. They usually eat the veggies really fast.
Still finding them dead in the mornings is kind of sketching me out haha
I'm waking up my beardie from brumation (he kind of half brumates, stays awake a few hours in the mornings and relaxes in his hide and goes back to sleep) next wednesday for a
bath,
hydration and some veggies since its been 3 weeks now. And If he decides to stay up for more than 2 days I feed him some supers but I'm honestly a little scared they might be bad or something. Thinking of starting over and buy new ones? Is there a possibility they are bad?
My beardie is really good with eating his veggies, but he lost interest in crickets and dubias completely a few months ago, so its been veggies and supers mainly, with a dubia roach here and there.