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<blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 232568" data-attributes="member: 29323"><p>Mealworms will eventually die off, like most things. I find around a month, at most, is the most likely period to keep mealworms. So they are long life compared to crickets.</p><p></p><p>What are you feeding? Roaches would survive longer & breed if you keep them correctly, but if you are feeding slings, would be much too big. I use mealworms for all of my slings. I behead the mealworm, as like that they cannot burrow & possibly later return as a darkling beetle.</p><p></p><p>Beheading & then feeding whole mealworms. Make the mealworms soft insides easily accessible to slings & also makes them easy to spot & retrieve. Thus avoiding mold which will sometimes start after as little as 48 hours if dead food is not found & retrieved.</p><p></p><p>For me, mealworms are easy to get, cheap to buy & long lived. So make the best sling food. At end of life, I pop the mealworm container, into a bag, tie it shut & then put it in the freezer overnight to humanly dispose of any surviving mealworms, beetles, pupae. I have beheaded & fed both pupae & the darkling beetles. But as mealworms are so cheap, I tend to only feed the mealworms. Darkling beetles give off a gas when attacked, so T's tend not to eat live beetles, plus darkling beetles can bite.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="m0lsx, post: 232568, member: 29323"] Mealworms will eventually die off, like most things. I find around a month, at most, is the most likely period to keep mealworms. So they are long life compared to crickets. What are you feeding? Roaches would survive longer & breed if you keep them correctly, but if you are feeding slings, would be much too big. I use mealworms for all of my slings. I behead the mealworm, as like that they cannot burrow & possibly later return as a darkling beetle. Beheading & then feeding whole mealworms. Make the mealworms soft insides easily accessible to slings & also makes them easy to spot & retrieve. Thus avoiding mold which will sometimes start after as little as 48 hours if dead food is not found & retrieved. For me, mealworms are easy to get, cheap to buy & long lived. So make the best sling food. At end of life, I pop the mealworm container, into a bag, tie it shut & then put it in the freezer overnight to humanly dispose of any surviving mealworms, beetles, pupae. I have beheaded & fed both pupae & the darkling beetles. But as mealworms are so cheap, I tend to only feed the mealworms. Darkling beetles give off a gas when attacked, so T's tend not to eat live beetles, plus darkling beetles can bite. [/QUOTE]
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