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28-Apr-08, 01:26 PM
|  | Invert nut Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: QLD Gender:  | | |
I have literally thousands of tiny little beetles, about 3mm that are living in my rat food, the larvae feed off it and have just had a popaulation explosion. Could i use the beetles as feed for dragons or gex or is the chitin content too high?
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28-Apr-08, 01:28 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Rockingham Wa Age/Gender: 27  | | | | Chitin would probably be to high in the beetles, but why not feed out the grubs? maybe try removing the beetle wings and see?
could you post some pix of the beetles?
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28-Apr-08, 01:30 PM
| | Invert nut Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: QLD Gender: | | | | yea, i gotta try and clean it out a bit so will try and get grubs, will try and get pics but they r so damned tiny
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28-Apr-08, 01:45 PM
|  | Willia6 fan Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Victoria Gender: | | | | My water dragons used to eat them by the bucket full with no problems. I tried them with gex but they didn't really take a liking to them
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