My Mealworm Business

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Originally Posted by jfreels

If you're going to resell them, you'll need to control their sizes. I should have PMed you more information earlier. With those size tubs, I'd imagine only a couple hundred beetles in each one at most. Four inches of bedding will do you no good. You're better to have more tubs with beetles and then have "rearing" tubs which you'll combine the bedding from the beetle tubs every 10-15 days.

If you let them lay for longer than that, you'll never be able to control size for re-sale. It's important that when someone buys 10k large mealworms, they get large mealworms! You're on the right track though!

You'll also need something for the pupae. I use to use a folding Sterilite box, it worked good. Put a piece of egg create in it and shake the new beetles off every couple days. Let me know if you need anymore tips. IMO, your time will be better spent on the supers. They will make you more money. They are a little trickier though in large quantities.

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I thought about the size variances. I think for now I will just want to get the stock up then start changing bins every 2 weeks. I think that will be easier with the setup I have now. When I'm swarmed with beetles I can start changing bins. I got the deeper tubs so I can have more mealworm/superworms. Wasn't thinking about how the beetles won't really go that far down in their food. A longer wider surface area tub would be good for the beetles. Thanks alot, for now until I get my stock up this will do. I didn't order the mealworms/superworms yet. I'll definitely order more superworms than mealworms.

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Originally Posted by that_dc5

interested in seeing how this turns out

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Me too.:D

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Originally Posted by Shenzi Sixaxis

Awesome! I hope it works out for you. Looks like you know what you're doing, which is more than I can say for myself!

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Lol, I hope I do.

I got some mealworms, I know I know the superworms are the more ideal ones, but I didn't get them. I got 2k mealworms about a week ago. Their already started pupating. I'm looking into other feeders too. I'm going to breed fruit flies next, they can't fly though. People use them for dart frogs.

Here's the flexwatt tape.
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Hello.... I'm new here and found this thread through a Google search. I'd love to hear how this project turned out as my daughters and I are working on the same thing.

Thanks
Eddie