Mealworms as Stable diet

[UncleChester]

In the hunt for earthworms, you can also try looking into home composting setups. Red Wrigglers, Eisenia fetida, are commonly used for home composters. These worms do have foul tasting secretions though, some frogs won't go near them and some people claim trying red wrigglers put there frogs off worms completely (I've not had this experience though). Some frogs won't care and gobble them up happily like they're candy.

Mealworms aren't good staple for nutrional value reasons. They're very good backup plan tho as they're cheap, easy to find and can be stored for a long time!

Whatever you believe about impaction, this pretty much covers my mealworm usage. I've kept a shoe box sized colony going for years with very little maintenance as a backup and also a bit of variety (always good).

[FwoGiZ]

In the hunt for earthworms, you can also try looking into home composting setups. Red Wrigglers, Eisenia fetida, are commonly used for home composters. These worms do have foul tasting secretions though, some frogs won't go near them and some people claim trying red wrigglers put there frogs off worms completely (I've not had this experience though). Some frogs won't care and gobble them up happily like they're candy.



Whatever you believe about impaction, this pretty much covers my mealworm usage. I've kept a shoe box sized colony going for years with very little maintenance as a backup and also a bit of variety (always good).

That is the way to do it! Yup!
I breed over a dozen different feeders for my herp room and breeding earthworms is real easy indeed, I have red wrigglers (they're quite small..) and also european crawlers.

I believe that you can order those from the Govt (they'll ship by mail!) for composting reasons for good price! in Canada.

The only thing I'll never breed cause of how nasty it is are crickets.
I used to when I was a kid and lemme tell you, you need an exterior setup of some kinda warehouse or shed... somewhere you don't mind to have crazy stench ahah!!!
But so many feeders are so easy to care for...

[numpty]

The only thing I'll never breed cause of how nasty it is are crickets.
I used to when I was a kid and lemme tell you, you need an exterior setup of some kinda warehouse or shed... somewhere you don't mind to have crazy stench ahah!!!

I've had some big tubs of crickets - pinheads to adults - going in the office for a few months now. Haven't noticed much smell, apart from when the adults start dying off. Otherwise, not nearly as whiffy as fruit fly cultures, at least in my experience.

[Tongue Flicker]

Newly molted worms are fine but they are not produced on a level that is sustainable enough to be fed on a regular basis. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of insects there that you could start breeding into a more pure and cleaner feeder.