Clean up crews..

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

The best?

Mealworms, do they work?

Do you need substrate for the clean up crews, if the colony has just started so theres nothing on the bottom. Does it matter?

Thanks for any help!

 

[nightanole]

meal worms or lesser meal worms, or even some carpet beetles for the dead if you can seal the tub good (they eat carpet etc if they get out). No you dont need any thing on the ground, the meal worms hang out on the egg cartons just fine. Just check the food regularly. They hang out on it, or under the bowls.

 

[sandrachameleon]

The best?

Mealworms, do they work?

Do you need substrate for the clean up crews, if the colony has just started so theres nothing on the bottom. Does it matter?

Thanks for any help!

what are they being used to clean up after?

 

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

Dubia colony I'm attempting to start. Do they climb plastic?

 

[sandrachameleon]

oh I get it now.

I keep some superworms in my dubia and hisser bins. Doesnt hurt anything, though Im not sure it really helps anything either. I remove pupae with I see them (or beetles, having missed some pupae) and more them to my super breeding bucket. I empty out the roach bins fairly often, so I'd loose too many superworm eggs if I only left them in the dubia bins, i think.
I dont know if mealworms have the same taste for fraz and rot as superworms. But if they do, there will be fraz soon enough, plus your gutload stuff.

No, mealworms and superworms (and dubia) wont climb smooth sided plastic.

 

[RealIzeRecognIze]

Would the clean up crews not be frassing pooping whatever you wanna call it? I got roliie pollies that's what I call them off my feeder supplier as a "cleanup crew" which was supposed eat there poo after pooing LOL but I saw no change in the amount of frass in the tank with them in it than without?

 

[sandrachameleon]

Would the clean up crews not be frassing pooping whatever you wanna call it? I got roliie pollies that's what I call them off my feeder supplier as a "cleanup crew" which was supposed eat there poo after pooing LOL but I saw no change in the amount of frass in the tank with them in it than without?

yes, wood sow / rollie pollie / terrestrial isopod do eat some of their own crap, to get back trace minerals. and then they poop it out again.

if it eats, it poops.

use that "food" that has been "processed" multiple times as good useful soil.

 

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

Thanks everybody Will use some meals as my guy probably can't handle supers yet.

 

[sandrachameleon]

Thanks everybody Will use some meals as my guy probably can't handle supers yet.

If you are using mealworms in a dubia bin as a clean-up crew, you wont want to feed those same mealworms to your chameleon.

 

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

Is it because the gutload is poor, fraz and dead dubia?

 

[Rick Dolph]

Try West Coast Roaches they sell a cleaner crew I use them in my dubia colonys

 

[ABDragons]

We use Micro Mealworms. They are safe to the breeding colony and reproduce on there own without any help

 

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

Just got mealworms but yeah I was looking at the west coast roaches, mealworms were cheaper so I hope they work out.

Thanks for the responses!