Breeding Butters

[melric]

So I've been reading up on breeding butter worms and apparently you can't. Has anyone managed? I have 50 in the fridge.

 

[KTown333]

You got to butter them up first

 

[melric]

You got to butter them up first

lol, I'm serious. But, that was funny. hahaha.

 

[pssh]

They are sterilized before being exported. No chance sir. They are considered a pest.

 

[melric]

They are sterilized before being exported. No chance sir. They are considered a pest.

I guess they don't sell the moths then?

 

[pssh]

nope. .

 

[Cainschams]

Butters is way too young to be breeding!!!

 

[melric]

Well that sucks. I didn't see any threads about it. So now everyone knows. Or they knew and I didn't. lol.

 

[melric]

Butters is way too young to be breeding!!!

Lmao! You guys are hilarious.

 

[Ace]

butters are cool...you dont feed them

and they are soft and squishy abd dont bite

 

[melric]

butters are cool...you dont feed them

and they are soft and squishy abd dont bite

Yeah, I have them in some cricket crack just in case. I thawed them out the other day and I thought they were dead. But then they just came back to life. Pretty cool.

So I was reading they get radiation to sterilize them. I hope that isn't an issue. Is the only reason they're sold to feed reptiles?

 

[fluxlizard]

They are sterilized before being exported. No chance sir. They are considered a pest.

So how do they manage to do that?

 

[pssh]

See the post above yours. Radiation.

 

[VeiledChams]

Butters is way too young to be breeding!!!

hahaha, too funny

 

[fluxlizard]

I haven't used butterworms in years, but so, you guys are comfortable feeding your chams irradiated worms?

 

[pssh]

I've never read anything about negative side affects in chameleons. Eh.

 

[fluxlizard]

I guess that is true.
I once saw a tv special about radiation and they studied it in the desert (I think arizona)- they concluded mammals and birds are screwed in a nuclear disaster, but reptiles and insects are gonna be OK. So maybe irradiating their food is ok.

That was a really, really old program though (probably 1970s).

 

[pssh]

Now we've been able to produce such strong radiation that they do not survive. Obviously the radiation process isn't that extreme as they are still alive when you get the butterworms.