**READ MORE INFO** ADDENDUM: 1st- I want to mention temps which I didnt do in the video. Best temps for superworms to thrive and beetles to breed is low to mid 80s. Also make sure to never leave your superworms in direct sunlight, it will kill them. 2nd- I touched on this briefly at the end, but I cant stress it enough. KEEP ENCLOSURES CLEAN! Clean = Healthy... Always. Remove rotten moisture items, remove sheds, remove any dead worms. Weekly cleans and spot checks every few days is your best bet to keeping things properly maintained. If you keep your enclosures clean, you will keep your worms healthy. Healthy worms will live an incredibly long time and provide fat healthy feeders for your animals. If you let your boxes get nasty with tons of old moisture items and sheds and crap. Youll likely get mites, a ton of your worms will die, your boxes will stink like hell, and all your work will go down the drain. SO KEEP IT CLEAN!!! 3rd- Last thing I want to mention is beetles lifespan. When I was first started gather information about breeding, I spoke to a guy who breeds them commercially (100s of thousands of worms). He said they live about 2 weeks. My best guess for such a drastic difference from my experience, is that the massive beetle farm is tough to keep clean and sanitary. So in poorer conditions the beetles simply die sooner. But in my experience since making this video, my average beetle lives closer to 4 -5 weeks...MOST of the time. I have had on occasion a few ...
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Breeding Superworms: Quick Step By Step
Breeding Superworms: Quick Step By Step Tube. Duration : 7.45 Mins.
**READ MORE INFO** ADDENDUM: 1st- I want to mention temps which I didnt do in the video. Best temps for superworms to thrive and beetles to breed is low to mid 80s. Also make sure to never leave your superworms in direct sunlight, it will kill them. 2nd- I touched on this briefly at the end, but I cant stress it enough. KEEP ENCLOSURES CLEAN! Clean = Healthy... Always. Remove rotten moisture items, remove sheds, remove any dead worms. Weekly cleans and spot checks every few days is your best bet to keeping things properly maintained. If you keep your enclosures clean, you will keep your worms healthy. Healthy worms will live an incredibly long time and provide fat healthy feeders for your animals. If you let your boxes get nasty with tons of old moisture items and sheds and crap. Youll likely get mites, a ton of your worms will die, your boxes will stink like hell, and all your work will go down the drain. SO KEEP IT CLEAN!!! 3rd- Last thing I want to mention is beetles lifespan. When I was first started gather information about breeding, I spoke to a guy who breeds them commercially (100s of thousands of worms). He said they live about 2 weeks. My best guess for such a drastic difference from my experience, is that the massive beetle farm is tough to keep clean and sanitary. So in poorer conditions the beetles simply die sooner. But in my experience since making this video, my average beetle lives closer to 4 -5 weeks...MOST of the time. I have had on occasion a few ...
**READ MORE INFO** ADDENDUM: 1st- I want to mention temps which I didnt do in the video. Best temps for superworms to thrive and beetles to breed is low to mid 80s. Also make sure to never leave your superworms in direct sunlight, it will kill them. 2nd- I touched on this briefly at the end, but I cant stress it enough. KEEP ENCLOSURES CLEAN! Clean = Healthy... Always. Remove rotten moisture items, remove sheds, remove any dead worms. Weekly cleans and spot checks every few days is your best bet to keeping things properly maintained. If you keep your enclosures clean, you will keep your worms healthy. Healthy worms will live an incredibly long time and provide fat healthy feeders for your animals. If you let your boxes get nasty with tons of old moisture items and sheds and crap. Youll likely get mites, a ton of your worms will die, your boxes will stink like hell, and all your work will go down the drain. SO KEEP IT CLEAN!!! 3rd- Last thing I want to mention is beetles lifespan. When I was first started gather information about breeding, I spoke to a guy who breeds them commercially (100s of thousands of worms). He said they live about 2 weeks. My best guess for such a drastic difference from my experience, is that the massive beetle farm is tough to keep clean and sanitary. So in poorer conditions the beetles simply die sooner. But in my experience since making this video, my average beetle lives closer to 4 -5 weeks...MOST of the time. I have had on occasion a few ...
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