nsect Details:
This kit includes live mealworms to start your colony. The mealworms are well packaged and can survive more than 4 weeks in travel! (ETA uk mainland:3-5 working days).
Kit Details:
1- custom clear breeding unit that fits to lower bucket
2- lower buckets
2- meshed lids
1- Bag of clay (Please see blog on website for ideas on using clay)
1- Bag oats for sub straight/food1- Box of Mealworms
1- Pair of gloves
1- Tweezers1-Info and care booklet
Product Description:
This is a high quality mealworm breeding bucket system perfect for producing your own feeder insects to save money and breed insects for many different reptiles and invertebrates, birds more!.
The Insects you produce yourself will be far superior to the insects found in pet shops small and large as insects are generally not treated well by the producer or the sellers, no more smelly half dead starved/dehydrated insects from pet stores with this kit!
You can produce alot of meal worms and beetles with this kit as it is big enough to hold well over 500 beetles with out over crowding due to the small size of the beetles. Each female will lay aprox 500 eggs over there 8 week lifespan if you have 500 female beetles laying say 250 eggs over 8 weeks that is 125,000 eggs!
Kit Design:
This mealworm tower is made from clear plastic that the insects cannot climb and snaps onto the lower bucket completely securely.
The top bucket is meshed to sort the worms/eggs from the beetles automatically. This is important as the beetles can eat the eggs. The eggs will fall threw the mesh and hatch in the lower draw allowing you to easily gather mealworms to be fed.
The insects will not escape from this farm due the design and the insects inability to climb plastic.
Key Features:
-Very little to no smell
-Durable compact design
-Saves money on feeding pets
-Healthy nutritious live food for your pets
-Have easy access to the right size insect’s
-Selectively breed your own mealworms for bigger/smaller worms
-Fun and educational
-Entertainment from observing and feeding the insects
-Self sorting
-Low maintenance
Directions for use:
Simply put a good layer of wheat bran (included) with some slices of cucumber/tomato/potato/carrot for moisture into the top bucket with meshed bottom and then add the mealworms and they will pupa and transform into beetles, with 2 weeks you will have a good number of beetles. The eggs laid by the beetles will fall threw the mesh and hatch in the lower bucket. Darkling beetles can live for up to 24+ weeks and lay 100s of eggs.
Maintenance:
Cleaning the colony is easy and hassle free just pour the continence of one of the buckets into a bag and sieve away the frass. You may also sieve away small mealworms and eggs so I would recommend rotating the 2 bottom treys and sieving every 3 weeks giving time for the eggs to hatch and mealworms to grow big enough
not to fall threw the sieve.
Or you could sieve the eggs and mealworm hatching with the frass and use another method to separate them.
Beetles, pupa and mealworms are all safe to handle and consume by pets or even humans!