Name: MealWorm Farm Untouched For 1 Year
Uploaded: 2024-07-02T16:21:08.000Z
Duration: 8 min 28 s
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In this video, we're going to show you how you can breed mealworms the easiest way possible.

I'm going to show you a mealworm enclosure of a full set up, super easy to make, and how I've not maintained it in one year.

One whole year, no maintenance at all, no sifting, no shaking, no nothing, and this is how we do it.

So about a year ago, we actually did do a full massive series on how to breed your own live food, whether it be Dubia roaches, superworms, mealworms, we've done it all, but I feel my mealworm content isn't as good as my content now, so I've tried to revisit it.

Way back then, a year ago, I decided to think, well what would happen if you didn't maintain it for a year?

However, if you want really good production from your mealworm farm, this is not the way to go.

This isn't as productive as some of the other methods where they've got the grid underneath the boxes, and we've done loads of videos on them in the past.

If you want to see a video on how to breed live food, a full playlist on all the different live food techniques, you're bound to find something that you're going to appreciate.

I'll leave a link just up there, but this is my mealworm farm.

It can often be seen just sat up here on top of my Dubia roach breeding colony, solely for the sole purpose of, it's out the way and it fits on top of that box.

There's no added heat, there's absolutely nothing special with that breeding farm, except for it's just full of crap and it works.

What we did a year ago, we've got this total, no lid, nothing.

These beetles can't climb, so you don't need to worry about that.

We literally filled it up to about here with porridge oats.

We've got two tubs of mealworms just like this.

We got them from the livefoodhub.co.uk, I'll leave their links in the description down below.

I got them from them because you do tend to get a little bit more in their packages.

The animals are just straight from the breeder, so they're already gut loaded, they're ready to go.

I'll leave their links in the description down below.

I poured these two tubs into this main tub of just porridge oats.

That's all that was in there, just porridge oats.

This is where it got quite lazy because I just added in some toilet roll inserts.

Do you know when you go to McDonald's, you get a couple of coffees?

Word of warning, if you do do it this way, it does get very, very dusty.

If you've done a lot of research on mealworms in the past, you will know the dust here can cause allergenic, is that a word, allergenics?

Allergenic sort of reactions to your body.

You're going to end up with big eyes and streaming nose, and you're just going to end up with like an allergic reaction to the frazz.

So if you've got a face mask or anything like that to block the dust getting into you, use it.

We've all got face masks this day and age with COVID, so it does work.

What they basically did, they lived inside the porridge oats, and then they ate the porridge oats as well.

But Richard, how did you give them a moisture source?

Every now and then, if I was feeding Diego, my bearded dragon, some salad, and I had a little bit left over, I'd chuck it in with these or in with the dubia roaches.

If I fed my big morning gecko breeding colony some pangea, along with the babies and the Chinese house gecko, if I fed them some sort of pangea or crested gecko diet and had a little bit left over, I'd just chuck it in with these.

If my lad had a banana and his banana peel, I'd chuck it in with these.

There was absolutely no maintenance at all.

I just left it in there as more of a recycle sort of bin.

A year later, we've got loads of babies, we've got loads of pupa, we've got loads of beetles, we've got everything in here.

However, right now, a year later, we put two bags of porridge oats in this.

It is just down here now and it's all just frazz.

The joy with that is the babies are actually living in there perfectly fine.

They're eating that, which is nutritionally good for the babies.

It's getting the babies to hide away from the beetles so the babies don't actually get eaten.

The eggs are sinking to the bottom of that frazz and they're not getting eaten by any of the beetles.

Like I did say, this is nowhere near as productive as your traditional sort of mealworm farms that you see people go way over the top for.

They do produce more than this and that's solely because the beetles in here can get to the eggs.

They can get to the babies and they just can get to everything.

If you're a busy person, if you really can't be bothered to sit there sifting through all your mealworm farms, it works.

So there is dead beetles in here, beetles that have come to the end of their life.

There is loads of exoskeletons, there's loads of sheds, there's loads of just crap in here.

There's loads of little tubs from the Pangaea.

He's loving life, just plodding around, swarming with mealworms.

But like I say, there is a lot of dead beetles in here.

There's a receipt there, I don't know what that's for, but that just goes to show exactly how recyclable we use this.

They're for the Pangaea that we use, there's another one down here.

Sometimes we've got little tubs in there, that's what we use for our big morning gecko colony.

We've just got loads and loads of stuff in here.

We even tried to put mesh in here, because there's rumour going around that mealworms actually eat plastic.

This is a piece of plastic and it's just something I wanted to try.

It made it brittle, it did make it brittle, but they've not eaten through it.

I suppose if we leave it in there for another year, they might go through it.

Let's face it, these are still animals, so you could deal with doing them a bit better.

I wonder what it would be like to do a naturalistic set up for Dubia roaches and live food, and the production value behind that.

Subscribe if you want to see something like that.

Check this out, we've just got this through the post.

Do you know what, I'm going to stick it up there on top of this huge enclosure just here.