mealworm VS Super worm - do I keep them the same?

[little leaf]

ok, I have had my super worms in the closet to turn into beatles - AND THEY DID - yay - but do I keep them the same was as I do meal worms? are they just a bigger meal worm ? I have kept my meal worms going well for over a year, breeding and doing great- I would like to breed the super worm - and advice anyone can give ??
Thank

 

[little leaf]

here is a pic of a few of them

 

[nightanole]

Yup you raise them just like meal worm beetles. The only trick to the Zophobas is that they wont turn into beetles till you put them in the cups. I just gave up on mine because they were just so slow growing. Beetles till half grown worms took six months. It just wasnt worth it since Zophobas are so cheap and seem to live forever.

For some foreshadowing; your beetles will live as long as crickets, 2 months after beetle die off you will have iddy biddy worms, 4-5 months later you will have full grown worms.

 

[sandrachameleon]

ok, I have had my super worms in the closet to turn into beatles - AND THEY DID - yay - but do I keep them the same was as I do meal worms? are they just a bigger meal worm ? I have kept my meal worms going well for over a year, breeding and doing great- I would like to breed the super worm - and advice anyone can give ??
Thank

supers and mealworms are very similar, yes.

info about breeding superworms:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/can-i-breed-my-19747/
http://www.howtobreedsuperworms.com/
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/bocajan/45-super-worm-breeding.html
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/443-superworm-substrate-gutload-one.html
mealworm info:
http://chameleonnews.com/03OctWells.html
http://www.sialis.org/raisingmealworms.htm
http://www.javafinch.co.uk/feed/live/live.html

 

[little leaf]

Yup you raise them just like meal worm beetles. The only trick to the Zophobas is that they wont turn into beetles till you put them in the cups. I just gave up on mine because they were just so slow growing. Beetles till half grown worms took six months. It just wasnt worth it since Zophobas are so cheap and seem to live forever.

For some foreshadowing; your beetles will live as long as crickets, 2 months after beetle die off you will have iddy biddy worms, 4-5 months later you will have full grown worms.

WHAT 5 mos- omg - LOL - okaaaaa so, maybe not worth it so far she wont even eat a meal worm let a lone a super worm - lol well, it was fun to see them in the " alien" ( as my daughter called them - lol ) state

well, I was just testing growing feeders - but that is a long time to wait for a worm

 

[sandrachameleon]

WHAT 5 mos- omg - LOL - okaaaaa so, maybe not worth it so far she wont even eat a meal worm let a lone a super worm - lol well, it was fun to see them in the " alien" ( as my daughter called them - lol ) state

well, I was just testing growing feeders - but that is a long time to wait for a worm

I dont find it necessarily takes that long.
Besides which, once you've got them going, its constant. You only wait once for babies. After that, you will always have babies because you are constantly having them grow, pupate, become beetles, lay eggs, etc

 

[DavidBuchan]

beatles -

I tried not too, I really did - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Qxlj9pnTc