Worms-Keeping and Breeding - Breeding meal worms

Your Reptile and Amphibian Resource and Information Site

Back to Worms-Keeping and Breeding Forum Forums Home Members Area

Worms-Keeping and Breeding Forum

Leokeeper Freedom Leokeeper Randy-burgen Dunco

Member

Message

#127687

Leokeeper
View Profile

Breeding meal worms

Hey, I was wondering how do you breed meal worms? is it easy? how many babys would I end up with if I had say twenty worms together? How long does it take for them to turn inot bettles? thank you for any nifo.

08/24/04 05:12pm

#139626

Freedom
View Profile

Message To: Leokeeper In reference to Message Id: 127687

Breeding meal worms

Hard ????? to answer as I have just begun to breed them myself however I will tell you what I know.
I bought 1,000 meal worms out of the probley dozen that escaped during the feeding of my dragons I have found about 8 full sized beetles, as soon as I found them I therew them into a container consiting of a cricket chow that I make myself and some potato piece’s, as the cricket chow is blended to a FINE mixture it allows the beetles to hide and do there thing if in fact they do there thing I ’m not sure as there is not much info on darkling bettels availble.
However out of the 8 bettles that I did find I know have close to 1,000 baby meal worms that I was not counting on having but none the less am happy to have out of these 1,000 maybe 300 will make it to the beetle stage "Hey I do have a baby dragon to feed"
So to say it’s easy the answer is yes as long as the heat is good 80 to 85 degrees you should have no problems.

09/09/04 11:37pm