Hi everyone,
I did a search and found a quasi-helpful thread in the Feeders section but it looks like it kind of died in Jan. after only a couple replies, & I'm interested in this one.
Since moving into an apartment, all dreams of roach breeding have escaped me. I hate hate hate pet store prices (and usually not "top-o-the-line" feeders..) so I've been ordering en masse from Mulberry Farms & storing my worms in empty pretzel rod jugs full of bran in the fridge. They seem to stay alive forever that way, & I wake'em up a day before feeding them off to give them their final meal of all good stuff. This has done me well for a good long while.
Today I scooped out the morning's ration, offered them to my beardie, & he completely turned up his nose at them. A FIRST for him - he loves his worms! So I kind of chalked it up to him growing up (he's a year now) & offered salad, which he devoured.
So I go to dump the worms back in the bin, and what do I see but little specks of mold on the walls of the jug. Upon further inspection, some small clumps of substrate showed signs of green. No odor whatsoever.. but.. Be still my heart! Everything I've read says NOT to let mold get into your colony.. but.. it doesn't really say why? Referencing the internet, most worms are composters, and pretty much everything they eat is dead, dying, full of parasites and mold/fungus etc. I am not fond of the idea of feeding mold-eating feeders to my kid, but - isn't that what they do in nature? So.. as I put my worms in the freezer to kill them off before disposing of them, I wonder if I really need to waste this whole jug (approx. 500 worms)?
My real selling factor was that my dragon didn't want to eat them.. potentially he sensed or smelled something awry. Or, maybe he just wasn't interested at that particular time - we all know how they are.
At any rate, I'm curious to see what others have to say. I've posted this here to see if it gets more responses, mods feel free to move it to where you feel it belongs. Looking forward to replies!
-Tami*
I did a search and found a quasi-helpful thread in the Feeders section but it looks like it kind of died in Jan. after only a couple replies, & I'm interested in this one.
Since moving into an apartment, all dreams of roach breeding have escaped me. I hate hate hate pet store prices (and usually not "top-o-the-line" feeders..) so I've been ordering en masse from Mulberry Farms & storing my worms in empty pretzel rod jugs full of bran in the fridge. They seem to stay alive forever that way, & I wake'em up a day before feeding them off to give them their final meal of all good stuff. This has done me well for a good long while.
Today I scooped out the morning's ration, offered them to my beardie, & he completely turned up his nose at them. A FIRST for him - he loves his worms! So I kind of chalked it up to him growing up (he's a year now) & offered salad, which he devoured.
So I go to dump the worms back in the bin, and what do I see but little specks of mold on the walls of the jug. Upon further inspection, some small clumps of substrate showed signs of green. No odor whatsoever.. but.. Be still my heart! Everything I've read says NOT to let mold get into your colony.. but.. it doesn't really say why? Referencing the internet, most worms are composters, and pretty much everything they eat is dead, dying, full of parasites and mold/fungus etc. I am not fond of the idea of feeding mold-eating feeders to my kid, but - isn't that what they do in nature? So.. as I put my worms in the freezer to kill them off before disposing of them, I wonder if I really need to waste this whole jug (approx. 500 worms)?
My real selling factor was that my dragon didn't want to eat them.. potentially he sensed or smelled something awry. Or, maybe he just wasn't interested at that particular time - we all know how they are.
At any rate, I'm curious to see what others have to say. I've posted this here to see if it gets more responses, mods feel free to move it to where you feel it belongs. Looking forward to replies!
-Tami*
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