Cricket crack for feeding Phoenix worms?

[Dagreek]

Will they eat it?

 

[Yowzercham]

F
Plowing if not what?

 

[Dagreek]

What?????

 

[Yowzercham]

I'm following the post too. And would like to know what to feed them

 

[BrucenBruce]

I've dropped baby carrots and dandelion greens in with mine ... they feed on compost, so I figured rotting veggies would work. The maggots seem to be doing well, but I don't like the new substrate the soldier fly larvae are being sold with so much . . .

~Bruce

 

[ridgebax1]

I put this in another thread too. I take mine out of the bedding they are shipped in, put them in a kritter keeper and add over ripe fruit/greens; you can also feed them baby food on some bread; they grow to about 1 inch in length and 1/4 wide. To separate them from the muck, just scoop some out into a bowl add warm water and they float up to the top where you can scoop them up. The warm water makes them very active.

 

[SSimsswiSS]

While you could add cricket crack to your soldier fly bin. It is only a (dry food) gutload. Garden scraps (wet food) / things you would put in a compost bin, work best because they provide everything needed to raise the worms up.

 

[ChameLIonLover]

Sorry to be revisiting an old post, but I had a quick question. Hopefully somebody sees this. Do soldier fly larvae need a substrate, or can one simply throw food scraps in? I found a piece of rotting and molding piece of fruit the other day, and noticed it was getting kind of stinky, and I think it's because of the substrate. Any advice as to what I could use for fresh substrate for the larvae to crawl around and burrow in?