Dry out a meal worm bed

[nightanole]

I put a paper towl over my meal worms, and it held in the moisture alittle too well. Now they are swimming in hunks of oatmeal like things instead of a sea of bran. Is there any thing i can do to crumple it up/dry it out? I kinda feel bad for the little guys, and the bed is only 3 weeks old.

 

[Olimpia]

Could you pour it all on a cookie sheet (with a raised edge, obviously) and leave them in a warm place? If the weather was nice I'd pt them outside but I think perhaps some sun coming in through a window will do too maybe. Or place them under a lamp. You don't want to bake them but the little bit of heat with the bedding spread out thinly will make it dry out in a short amount of time.

That's all I can come out with, anyway!

 

[sandrachameleon]

just start over. put them into fresh bedding.

Consider using more than just bran for the substrate too.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/443-superworm-substrate-gutload-one.html

 

[nightanole]

Oh its a wide variety of stuff, I just call it the bran bedding. I think im just going to pick all the little guys out, and feed the bedding to the dubia, then start over with fresh bedding again.

 

[sandrachameleon]

Oh its a wide variety of stuff, I just call it the bran bedding. I think im just going to pick all the little guys out, and feed the bedding to the dubia, then start over with fresh bedding again.

be careful about offering too much bran/grains at once to dubia.