Wow, for the first time ever, I am actually have some real success at breeding the creepy-crawly little buggers! I don't know what I have done differently this time around, but when searching the "empty" oatmeal container today, I came across a BUNCH of little mealies! This is exciting, I am tired of going through about $25 a week on the damn things.
Now, for them to grow up so I can actually feed the stupid things off. Little babies are nice, but my guys are way too big for them. LOL

Congrats on that. We want pictures!

Not real sure on how I would get pics of little worms that are hard enough to see in the oatmeal, but I can try LOL.

:wamma::wamma::wamma: Congratulations!!!!

I am about to venture into my second attempt at crix - stupid feeders are harder to raise than the lizards they feed.

Awesome and Congrats...Pictures We want Pictures :lol:

Congrats on breeding your own mealies

congrats good luck

Kelly it takes a while to get them up to size, usually about 2 months.... I finally have a good colony going but have to watch out that I dont ever feed and deplete the colony completely....

Yeah right now my plan is to hold the 3 bins of "eggs" and small mealies I have, then turn around about 1000 of them into beetles again. I only started with about 30 or 40 this time, so I know it is going to take time, but in the next 6 months or so I hope to have too many! These leos go through about 3k a week of the damned things, and I am going to up my breedings next fall, so they will come in handy!

Trust me.... Before you know it...

You will have way more than you will need!

Congrats on the mealie breeding.

reallly just started getting into breeding feeders..this year have started asf,rats and got a rach colony..its work but is better money wise

congrats

best of luck on this....I have set up a 9 bin rack for breeding mealies... still need to order another 20k or so... then maybe I can populate the other bins.