Possible Mealworm Food?

[Jay_Bunny]

I have a container of fish flake food and a small bottle of frog pellet food that I have no use for. I was wondering if these are ok to feed to mealworms as I don't want them to go to waste. If not, then into the trash they go as I'm packing up to move and can't have a bunch of useless stuff being packed up.

[Shelby]

You can give that to them.. just beware those foods tend to spoil very quickly when they're in any kind of moisture.

[MarkS]

Those would be fine. A thriving meal worm colony makes for a good garbage disposal of dry foods my might otherwise throw away.

[Jay_Bunny]

I plan on getting more leopard geckos and sugar gliders in the future so a good colony of mealworms is my goal. Thanks for the input. Now I won't have to throw it away.

[Shelby]

Mealies eat basically anything. When I was breeding them I'd get non-medicated chick starter at the feed store.. or bran. They just eat and eat and eat.

[Jay_Bunny]

Oh I know. Thankfully, a lot of the things they eat I already have to buy. My first group of baby mealies are almost up to size. They are big enough to pick up now.

[Shelby]

I may be weird but I think baby mealworms are really cute.

[Jay_Bunny]

They are. I think babies of any kind are cute.

[Shelby]

Yeah I think you're right.. even baby mosquitoes are cute. (did I just say that?)

[Jay_Bunny]

Ok, well not those. Those insects eat me alive. I'm like candy to them.