adtoes":158fe said:
I have 2 11.4L (12Qt.) and a decent sized glass aquarium about 12" wide and 18" long 12" high I think its about 10Gallons. Is this enough to house 500 supers?????? This is an immediate question as they'll be here in a couple days
I have 3 -15qt. tubs with lids that I have cut the center of the lids out and applied screen to keep the pesky moths out. One for housing my adult supers in and two for the baby supers. I use a smaller tubs with lids for the beetles. But I only keep about 2 dozen beetles going at a time. The beetles live for over 4 months how long I'm not sure yet. I have only had one die sense the end of June when I started growing the supers. I have morphed my worms both with and without any substrate for me it works better without. They need to be stressed inorder to morph and they seem to do this quicker without the substrate.
Now I mentioned that I was using a 15qt. tubs I will soon need bigger ones or there will not be enough room for all of the baby supers once they get bigger. My worms are now from microscopic to about 4 centimeters. It took from the end of June till now for them to get to 4 centimeters. They do grow rather slowly the biggest mistake that most people make when trying to breed supers is that they give up before they see the worms. After 3 weeks of the beetles being together believe me there are worms even if you can not see them.
Now to answer your question yes those 2 tubs and the 10gal tank should be more than enough room for your supers for now just make sure to put about 3 to 4 inches of substrate and a carrot, potato, apple, something that they can get moisture from or they will eat each other to get the moisture that they need. If you put to much moisture this is not good either(mold). I usually put like a half of a carrot, potato, or apple in the 15qt. and this works good.
Now the bigger the container you house them in may be better~might have less die offs. :dontknow: