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Food and Feeding
Live foods that can be cultured indoors?
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<blockquote data-quote="Addlement" data-source="post: 264934" data-attributes="member: 7721"><p>Interesting, I definitely want to try that idea, though we don't appear to have Weetabix on this side of the pond. So, in your opinion, what would work best? I'm going to go kind of scientific, since this seems like something the hobby needs more knowledge on, and that's kind of what I nerd out on. I'll be setting up eight bins this week, though I'd easily add a couple more if someone has any ideas.</p><p></p><p>some with ground up cheerios (which are commonly used in FF cultures as they have some mysterious antimold property) and some honey, milled oats and some honey, some corn meal and honey, and some with ground up cheerios and no honey. I plan on having two colonies of each, one being kept at room temperature, ~72 degrees, and one kept near my Chameleon cage, so about 85 degrees. Waxworms are naturally occurring in beehives, which are kept at ~94 degrees. If the ones at 85 go through their life cycle much faster than the ones at room temperature, I'll try finding a way to keep them at beehive temperatures.</p><p></p><p>Are waxworm moths plenty large to feed, say, adult Indian Flowers and Orchids? I guess that might be important to know before I go through all that work... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Addlement, post: 264934, member: 7721"] Interesting, I definitely want to try that idea, though we don't appear to have Weetabix on this side of the pond. So, in your opinion, what would work best? I'm going to go kind of scientific, since this seems like something the hobby needs more knowledge on, and that's kind of what I nerd out on. I'll be setting up eight bins this week, though I'd easily add a couple more if someone has any ideas. some with ground up cheerios (which are commonly used in FF cultures as they have some mysterious antimold property) and some honey, milled oats and some honey, some corn meal and honey, and some with ground up cheerios and no honey. I plan on having two colonies of each, one being kept at room temperature, ~72 degrees, and one kept near my Chameleon cage, so about 85 degrees. Waxworms are naturally occurring in beehives, which are kept at ~94 degrees. If the ones at 85 go through their life cycle much faster than the ones at room temperature, I'll try finding a way to keep them at beehive temperatures. Are waxworm moths plenty large to feed, say, adult Indian Flowers and Orchids? I guess that might be important to know before I go through all that work... :P [/QUOTE]
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