theyre really easy, just keep them in a deep tub (i use old pots, no lid) in unprocessed wheat bran with a handful of dry cat food and give them a leaf of bok choy or something similar every day, enough that they can all eat but so nothing is left a few hours later. (the good thing about greens is theyre thin and dry out if uneaten so the substrate doesnt get damp and mouldy)
they need to be seperated to morph into beetles (so 1 beetle per coffee cup/ glass etc) which takes about 2 weeks, tehn the beetles go into a seperate deep tub on bran, i give them gutload (couldnt tell if they were coping with the cat bikkies hardnesswise) and greens just like the others. (they get a half egg carton buit to climb all over)
every month or 2 i move that bran/eggs into a seperate container since once the worms start getting bigger they seem to kill and eat the beetles,...
snaIls are another thing to breed, i havent bred them yet, but got my first kilo of baby snails to raise a month ago and might breed them, not sure tho, theyre pretty gross. (as in might just buy a kilo to raise yearly so i dont have to deal with them all winter,..)
Dottyback, where did u find wax worms in Australia? and arent they really high in fat? i remember reading about them on a US forum,...and they said to only use them as treats,..?
