Hello,
I have 6 small starter cultures of these wonderful feeders. These explosive breeders are perhaps one of the easiest live foods to culture. Each culture contains 30-40 beetles with invested beans...within 3-4 weeks you can have 300-600 or so 4mm beetles to feed off to your small geckos, dart frogs, most toads, tree frogs and certain other amphibians or anything that will happily except them. They are able to climb so they need to be kept in the container they are in...you don't have to do ANYTHING with them but leave them in a 75-90 degree room and come back to them in 4 weeks and see what you have.
All you have to do to care for them is add a 1/8 - 1/4 inch new layer of black eye peas every month on the top for them to lay new eggs on the outside. The eggs hatch the the larvae burrow into the bean and emerge as adults! No watering, no care...simplest insects ever to culture. I would suggest a deeper container than the one provided.
Shipping should be $5. Heat packs are $2.50 each if you want one added.
Thanks,
Ken
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