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Feed small amounts at first and check the stools for shed skins of the BSFL. If you're feeding small amounts and they cannot be fully digested, they should pass the partially digested worms. I've had this happens with some salamanders so I stopped feeding them to those particular salamanders...

I get fully grown larvae and just leave them in a box until they are brown and then put them on top of the substrate in the jars. I tried putting the larvae in the jars before they turned brown and most of them died and never puppated.

I'm breeding some waxworms now which is really easy. The only mistake I made was putting the adults in the feed where probably half or more died. Now I just leave them out in a cup until they turn brown and then dump them in the substrate to turn into moths. Very few loses doing it that way.

if you're trying to hand grate vegetables for anything larger than a single bin of roaches, you really need to invest in at least a medium grade food processor with a couple of different blade types. For the harder vegetables, you will need a slicing blade not just a chopping blade. The...

if you're feeding a large variety of feeders, the odds of a nutritional disorder go down. Nutrition also plays into how well the overall immune system functions so it likely reduces the overall chance of disease in general. If you put the superworms into a medication free chick feed (I also...

I use USPS priority most of the time but sometimes Fedex Home Delivery or UPS can be good too if the ship to and from location are close by. For light boxes you can also use first class mail which is very cheap. I shipped a lot of micro feeders that way.

Start a roach colony that will reduce how often you need to go buy crix. Crix aren't hard to breed but it's just kind of a headache and they aren't as hardy as roaches. I've cut back on the amount of crix I breed just because the savings isn't worth it to me anymore. I would still do it if I...

Dubia would work fine for this project. I have never kept discoids but it sounds like they are nearly the same thing. Basically just kept them in a ventilated box with a heat tape set on a rheostat. Kept an temp gun to calibrate the temperature of the heat tape. You could even build some kind of...

Thought you guys might appreciate this https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311752142_Nutritional_value_of_three_Blattodea_species_used_as_feed_for_animals, can be read in whole for free just scroll down past the abstract particularly the Ca P ratio for dubia.

I breed a lot of different insects over the course of a year but I don't always keep them all going at all times. The most useful insect for me to breed is turning out to be the red runners. Very useful for so many sizes of lizards and they take up less space than crickets since the entire...

I only remove the frass every so often only when it has built up really deep and when I do I sift out the babies with a large kitchen sifter. I have recently then started taking the sifted frass and spreading it around my yard and garden as an organic fertilizer. I can never separate all of it...

Curly wing house flies might be an option. I bred them for a short time but I was only keeping strictly terrestrial lizards at the time and the flies tend to run up the sides of things but should work well for small chams.

No need to toss the bin, wastes resources and costs you money. Very bad for all, I think.

They are a good feeder and high in Ca. If your reptile won't bowl feed they might crawl away and turn into flies. For chams that shouldn't be any issue as they will just eat the flies, too.

I do use the Superload product to gutload my feeders around 24h up to a couple of days before feeding them off (I just put those in a seperate container) at least some of the time. Based on prior research I have read by Mark Finke, to properly gutload crickets and mealworms you need a pretty...

Ventilation is a big deal for sure, moisture buildup and crickets are a bad combo. They have to have moisture to drink but anything beyond that is going to allow disease to have a chance to strike. I also clean out my bins pretty well and wash them out between loads of crix. Can't comment on the...

lol I've got some soldier flies around the house now. They seem to have gathered in the bathroom. I woke up a couple of days ago with a superworm beetle crawling on me. The price we pay for our lizards!

Anytime I've had crickets die off it's been related to too much moisture and not enough ventilation. Make sure the top of the cricket holder is screen ventilated and don't let excess moisture build up. They need access to moisture through wet food, crystals, or paper towel in a bowl of water...

Yes, they should be replaced by the expiration date on the package. I also would discard them after being open for 6 months at room temperature or 1 year refrigerated but mine never last that long anyway as I don't buy big containers at a time. Right now I alternate between reptivite and Repashy...

Most of the parasites that cause problems in captivity have a direct lifecycle and your pets get them from other reptiles poop. Using disposable gloves, washing your hands often, not feeding them other reptiles directly, and preventing cross contamination of tools/water dishes will do more to...