So here's a new one for me... since my toad is just into soaking for the winter and not eating and my lizards are into crickets and phoenix worms, I decided to take the mealworms from the fridge and try the 3 drawer breeding method. That's the top drawer for beetles (with a screen cut into the bottom to allow eggs and baby worms to drop into drawer two). Drawer two, or the middle drawer is the mealworm collective. And the bottom drawer is where I put all the pupa's till they hatch and are moved to the top drawer.

So I am in the middle of month 2, getting eggs, few dozen beetles and the worms. Every day I do a check with my daughter and remove dead ones, pupa's and put in fresh carrots if need be. For the bedding I mixed high in vitamin's and minerals dog food and oats. I ground them up to a nice powder and they enjoy basking and burrowing in it.

However as of late I noticed some got really lethargic... lying around, barley moving... then today I noticed one actually split! Seems they like the food/bedding so much they are overeating to the point of literally popping.

Although this is the first one I've come across, I am wondering if anyone has seen this before?

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