Superworms: screen method

[zlandaal]

I've been looking around at how to breed superworms, and I went ahead and pulled the trigger and got 250 from flukers. My two bearded dragons are only 13-14", so not quite big enough yet, but they've grown 2" in the last month!

With mealworms I've seen people use a screen on the bottom of their beetle bin with another tub underneath to catch the eggs and tiny worms, using that as an automatic way to separate them from the beetles. Has anyone done this with superworms? I'll basically just get one of the 3 drawer sterilite tubs and replace the bottom of the top one with a screen that keeps substrate and beetles in, then just rotate the tub underneath.

 

[Emimee]

I personally don't use that method, although I have seen it done! I just manually remove my beetles and rotate them every three weeks, and keep providing moisture sources in their former tub until the worms are big enough to separate into another container.

I just wanted to mention, make sure you get a set of drawers that is tall enough! For the beetles in particular, I totally forgot to factor in that the substrate will take up 2-4 inches of space, and that the climbing and hiding materials I provide (mostly toilet paper rolls) give them even more of a height advantage, and, well... Basically I had a few escapees before I realized my mistake and moved to plastic shoe boxes instead. :roll: