Renn
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I had a mealworm colony I got when we first got Kabuki. They are starting to diminish in number, I think I had them on the wrong bedding or something, I've been keeping them in ground up oatmeal and feeding them carrots and spinach. I don't have any issues feeding them normally as they barely move and Kabuki can very easily pick them off, but he also ignores them sometimes since they barely move.
The other day I picked up another woman's mealworm colony. Hers had exploded in population and she had too many. They're in soft wheat bran, fed good stuff too. They are SO different compared to our colony, very large, very active. When I was feeding them to Kabuki they traveled all over the place and on top of him.
Is there a specific container I can make/use to keep them from escaping the feeding dish? I mean if it's enrichment that's great too, I just try not to make things too difficult for the old man is all. He seems to go crazy for these guys.
I'm also curious as to why this new colony is so much more active and crazy than my other one? They're already going through food like crazy and cannibalizing if I don't keep constant food in there. I don't have enough containers or space to separate out the different life cycles. Sometimes I sprinkle calcium on them but I don't "shake n bake" them with it since I heard it suffocates them, so i just sprinkle it on them.
This is my first colony, took me an hour to separate them out of the old bedding into the wheatbran bedding. They like it better, they're under the eggcrate, there aren't many of them left, mostly a couple adult mealies, mostly larvae and beetles. No young ones though and no skin sheds. They're pretty sluggish.
This is the newer colony, they came in a HUGE underbed sweater container. She said bring a container and I brought a cricket keeper and she laughed and said it wouldn't be big enough lol. But you can't tell very well from the picture, but there's a gazillion of worms in there, lots of beetles, young ones, skin casings. This morning when they ate all their top food it was like a rave in there! They were all over the place. Anyone know why the mealworms seem to gravitate over to the corners of the container?
Thanks Chameleon buddies. ^_^
The other day I picked up another woman's mealworm colony. Hers had exploded in population and she had too many. They're in soft wheat bran, fed good stuff too. They are SO different compared to our colony, very large, very active. When I was feeding them to Kabuki they traveled all over the place and on top of him.
Is there a specific container I can make/use to keep them from escaping the feeding dish? I mean if it's enrichment that's great too, I just try not to make things too difficult for the old man is all. He seems to go crazy for these guys.
I'm also curious as to why this new colony is so much more active and crazy than my other one? They're already going through food like crazy and cannibalizing if I don't keep constant food in there. I don't have enough containers or space to separate out the different life cycles. Sometimes I sprinkle calcium on them but I don't "shake n bake" them with it since I heard it suffocates them, so i just sprinkle it on them.
This is my first colony, took me an hour to separate them out of the old bedding into the wheatbran bedding. They like it better, they're under the eggcrate, there aren't many of them left, mostly a couple adult mealies, mostly larvae and beetles. No young ones though and no skin sheds. They're pretty sluggish.
This is the newer colony, they came in a HUGE underbed sweater container. She said bring a container and I brought a cricket keeper and she laughed and said it wouldn't be big enough lol. But you can't tell very well from the picture, but there's a gazillion of worms in there, lots of beetles, young ones, skin casings. This morning when they ate all their top food it was like a rave in there! They were all over the place. Anyone know why the mealworms seem to gravitate over to the corners of the container?
Thanks Chameleon buddies. ^_^
