wingnut
05-11-2007, 04:11 PM
This might be a silly question, but...:roll:
I just caught a recently morphed Superworm beetle crawling in my office. I assume that a worm escaped my Beardie's food dish, hid under a rock, and than escaped the enclosure after it transformed (the enclosure is not insect-tight right now). My question is what to do with it? For the time being I just put it in my Superworm enclosure since it should have the right food, bedding, etc. I do want to breed these things, but I haven't had time to get started yet.
I do have a couple others in pupae stage, but they are days/weeks from being beetles. What kind of set-up do I need for the beetles? Will this one live long enough for the others to 'catch-up? How many beetles do I need to start breeding? Is there a visual way to tell a male from a female? I have read some on the guides online, but they seem to be much larger scale than I need (like pupating 1,000 worms at a time). I only need to feed 1 beardie and 1 baby tegu (after he hatches in July) so I don't need (or want) to have a colony of 1,000,000 worms 8O.
Thanks
I just caught a recently morphed Superworm beetle crawling in my office. I assume that a worm escaped my Beardie's food dish, hid under a rock, and than escaped the enclosure after it transformed (the enclosure is not insect-tight right now). My question is what to do with it? For the time being I just put it in my Superworm enclosure since it should have the right food, bedding, etc. I do want to breed these things, but I haven't had time to get started yet.
I do have a couple others in pupae stage, but they are days/weeks from being beetles. What kind of set-up do I need for the beetles? Will this one live long enough for the others to 'catch-up? How many beetles do I need to start breeding? Is there a visual way to tell a male from a female? I have read some on the guides online, but they seem to be much larger scale than I need (like pupating 1,000 worms at a time). I only need to feed 1 beardie and 1 baby tegu (after he hatches in July) so I don't need (or want) to have a colony of 1,000,000 worms 8O.
Thanks