should i get a cricket farm going before i get my geckos?

[swisswiss]

Ya iv seen some babies in my frass drawer...they drop from the beetle drawer directly to the worm drawer...I figured the babies will have plenty to eat with the other adult meal worms but they seem to inevitably drop down past them to the last drawer.....that is the frass drawer....im going to try getting the babies to fall in the pupa drawer (place it directly under the beetle drawer) this will avoid me shifting through the frass trying to find the little wigglys, not that im disgusting by the frass it just a pita doing so..... I dont know I havent optimized the setup yet... I might just add a dedicated baby worm drawer....I have a bazzilion pupas now......

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Thanks for all your info and visuals, Jeff and Jess.

• I'm on week 6 of my culture that began with 100 giant mealworms on Jan 13.
• At 4 weeks the darkling beetles began to appear.
• Checked tonight, but saw no larvae or pupae.

 

[JessJohnson87]

The larvae are really tiny. I saw the poo and ground up oats moving last night after I fixed my beetle bin and sure enough there were little worms.

The little babies eat the poo, so I would not sift out too much of it.

 

[swisswiss]

Was thinking of placing a dedicaited beetle frass/baby drawer directly under the beetle drawer. Instead of having the frass + babies drop down directly to the main worm drawer

 

[JessJohnson87]

That sounds like a good idea. I wanted to do the drawer system but I decided to get the 6qt tubs because they were .94 cents each. I'll probably get another tub once the babies start getting bigger to house the adult worms and pupae in. The beetles will eat the pupae and not let them morph into beetles....

 

[JessJohnson87]

Babies!!!

 

[swisswiss]

Niawwww

 

[JessJohnson87]

:biggrin:

It's so freaking cute. Now if my roaches will spit some babies out I'll be happy. Had to cull 5 males last night and I forgot they're still in the freezer :yikes:

 

[swisswiss]

Ya waiting on my dubias too