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More morios, breeding beetles take 2
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<blockquote data-quote="Vermis" data-source="post: 198311" data-attributes="member: 37487"><p>I used to breed these too, when I first kept inverts. (Hence take 2) I started when the frass from regular mealworms started giving me hayfever reactions. With both species it was convenient to have a range of sizes to feed slings up to adult Ts. And it's just weirdly fun to do, as well. It's a bit more complicated than breeding <em>T. molitor,</em> but that's not an especially high bar to hurdle!</p><p></p><p>Same thing here, as I think about buying my first slings in years. Similar setup too: a set of 1ltr tubs for the different larva stages/generations, and for the adult breeders, a whopping great wide-open space of 2ltrs.</p><p></p><p>I bought these in the middle of June. I put them on porridge oats, with bits of dry dog food, fish food, and vegetables for a week. I don't know if that was strictly necessary, but I thought I'd try get a bit more nutrition in them anyway. I isolated some out, as shown, and that's just over the two week mark for the first pupae to pop out. A couple just moulted without pupating, those were replaced.</p><p>I better write this down somewhere, see how long it takes them to fully mature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vermis, post: 198311, member: 37487"] I used to breed these too, when I first kept inverts. (Hence take 2) I started when the frass from regular mealworms started giving me hayfever reactions. With both species it was convenient to have a range of sizes to feed slings up to adult Ts. And it's just weirdly fun to do, as well. It's a bit more complicated than breeding [I]T. molitor,[/I] but that's not an especially high bar to hurdle! Same thing here, as I think about buying my first slings in years. Similar setup too: a set of 1ltr tubs for the different larva stages/generations, and for the adult breeders, a whopping great wide-open space of 2ltrs. I bought these in the middle of June. I put them on porridge oats, with bits of dry dog food, fish food, and vegetables for a week. I don't know if that was strictly necessary, but I thought I'd try get a bit more nutrition in them anyway. I isolated some out, as shown, and that's just over the two week mark for the first pupae to pop out. A couple just moulted without pupating, those were replaced. I better write this down somewhere, see how long it takes them to fully mature. [/QUOTE]
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