I am about 8 months into the process of breeding my own Super Worms for my (2) dragons. I have read a few methods and followed the guide lines.
Substrate: Oatmeal, bran, Baby cereal, Corn Meal cousre ground togther.
Housing: Rubber Maid Sweater box or some call it a Shoe Box (Homedepot) well vented and secure.
Moisture: Every other day Sliced Potato or 5-6 Baby Carrots
Temp: between 70'-85'F depending how how cold or hot the Day/Night
The worms are doing great all thriving and growing big as they can get hardly any dead. i only choose the largest of the worms to phase into Beetles. this part took a little over a month the first time, but that was fine a phased about (150) some died along the way so i came out with about (100) beetles, divided them into (3) boxes. Changed the Potato and Carrots at the same time as i would for the worms and they lived for a good while. every couple of day i remove the dead beetles if any and every 2 weeks or so i removed all beetles into a new substrate. As for boxes that had the eggs I place sliced Potato and kept warm but a month later no baby worms!!! what did i not do? or what else can i do?
So i tried again but this time i decided to use my incubator and put about 75 Lrg worms at 80'F and they turned to "aliens" in about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 weeks fast. i thought that was cool, so i divided them and took care as normal but now they died in about a 2weeks all of them almost at the same time?!? i could see the females laying eggs in the substrate but its been three weeks and no signs of baby worms.
I dont think i will be incubating any more worms but i would like to have Super Worms as a feeder. any help would be great!
Substrate: Oatmeal, bran, Baby cereal, Corn Meal cousre ground togther.
Housing: Rubber Maid Sweater box or some call it a Shoe Box (Homedepot) well vented and secure.
Moisture: Every other day Sliced Potato or 5-6 Baby Carrots
Temp: between 70'-85'F depending how how cold or hot the Day/Night
The worms are doing great all thriving and growing big as they can get hardly any dead. i only choose the largest of the worms to phase into Beetles. this part took a little over a month the first time, but that was fine a phased about (150) some died along the way so i came out with about (100) beetles, divided them into (3) boxes. Changed the Potato and Carrots at the same time as i would for the worms and they lived for a good while. every couple of day i remove the dead beetles if any and every 2 weeks or so i removed all beetles into a new substrate. As for boxes that had the eggs I place sliced Potato and kept warm but a month later no baby worms!!! what did i not do? or what else can i do?
So i tried again but this time i decided to use my incubator and put about 75 Lrg worms at 80'F and they turned to "aliens" in about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 weeks fast. i thought that was cool, so i divided them and took care as normal but now they died in about a 2weeks all of them almost at the same time?!? i could see the females laying eggs in the substrate but its been three weeks and no signs of baby worms.
I dont think i will be incubating any more worms but i would like to have Super Worms as a feeder. any help would be great!
