breeding wax worms? Pics?

[duckyLBT]

hey has anyone tryed breeding wax worms? if so do you have any pictures? love to see some set-ups.....

 

[Theroachguy]

Try this guy out this is where I bought my stuff from years ago http://waxwormkit.com/

 

[MAJ]

From another forum:
http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/feeder/207600-my-guide-breeding-waxworms-pics.html
I used a setup very similar to the one described in the previous link, but used one of the feeding media (#2 with some calcium and multivitamin added to the mix) described here:
http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Live Food, Wax Worms.htm

They are pretty easy to grow. I did them over the summer, and just left the jar on a shelf in my warm garage for heat. Within a couple of weeks, I had a ton of baby waxworms, and a week or two after that a ton of big, fat, fast-moving ones. With only a single beardie, a single generation produced far more than I could ever use as treats.

 

[duckyLBT]

Ok, just some questions....How do i keep them from excaping? I wanna do it in my house just beacuse its really cold outside and i dont wanna wake up with them crawling in my bed in you know what i mean haha, the one person on that other post said she pit them in water to prevent them from exaping...???? how did you do your lid? and do they lay there eggs on the walls? or just in the wax paper and cardboard? thanks

 

[MAJ]

I used the biggest mason jar I could find. I used some left over bridal veil tulle that I had from a craft store (used to make a butterfly enclosure with some embroidery hoops for another "project"), and secured it to the jar using the ring of the lid. I omitted the lid insert, so air could circulate. The tulle was placed over the jar, and the lid ring screwed down over the tulle.
At the bottom of the jar was about an inch or so of feeding media. On top of the feeding media was a piece of corrugated cardboard, folded in half. To increase the surface area of the cardboard, I peeled the outer layer of paper from the cardboard on one side (so one side was flat, the other was then "wavy").
I believe that the moths lay eggs on the cardboard, and the hatchling caterpillars/worms make their way down to the feeding media after they hatch. The eggs are incredibly tiny. There could have been some on the glass, but I couldn't see them. You will probably see the babies crawling through the honey/bran substrate long before you see eggs.
Sorry- I don't have pictures, and I haven't been set up for them since September or October. Hopefully, between the pics in the reptileforums.co.uk link in my last post, and my description here, you have a good mental picture of what to do.
If I were to do it again, I would likely look for a bigger jar to keep them in. More space for the moths, more space for the worms, and it would be easier to get the worms out of the jar. Mine was only a quart jar, since I started with only a few pupae and it was the biggest jar that I had immediately at hand.