Lemur_6
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Not sure where else to post this, but I bought some silkworms from mulberry farms and they're starting to die off in the strangest fashion. They're turning into brown sticky puddles. It's really nasty 
. Basically using asceptic technique to handle them, all their containers are cleaned with alcohol, and I don't even touch the worms, I pick them up with cleaned chopsticks. If they're getting sick from anything it must be an airborne illness. I had silkworms die before, but not like this, they'd just turn brown and shrivel up, not turn into messy goo puddles. Everytime I get these gooey worms I transfer all the healthy looking ones over to a new container, but they're still dying. I think I might try and separate each and every one into it's own delicup. My gecko still won't touch even the healthy ones, but I'm not too sure I want to feed him any of them now. Anyone know what's going on?
. Basically using asceptic technique to handle them, all their containers are cleaned with alcohol, and I don't even touch the worms, I pick them up with cleaned chopsticks. If they're getting sick from anything it must be an airborne illness. I had silkworms die before, but not like this, they'd just turn brown and shrivel up, not turn into messy goo puddles. Everytime I get these gooey worms I transfer all the healthy looking ones over to a new container, but they're still dying. I think I might try and separate each and every one into it's own delicup. My gecko still won't touch even the healthy ones, but I'm not too sure I want to feed him any of them now. Anyone know what's going on?