JTelcontar
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I saw a old topic related to this (from 2007, yikes) but I didn't want to bring that topic "back from the dead".
I purchased a "baby" silkworm cup from Mulberry Farms a couple of weeks ago. Everything was going quite well, Cicero was LOVING the small silkworms, and I thought they were just the coolest things ever. So soft!
Yesterday I noticed something that looked like a bit of mold in the container. A couple of hours later, boom, full blown mold all over the place in the cup. Wuh oh. At that point, I already had dead/dying silkworms and I knew there wasn't much hope. Cicero had eaten just over half of the silkworms in there, so I chalked up the other 50% to a learning experience and threw out the rest of them.
I kept the cup of silkworms on the very top shelf of my wire rack set up. So there was plenty of ventilation up there (or so I thought). My house is at about 40% humidity, so I figured that would be dry enough.
I never noticed any moisture droplets inside of the silkworm cup.
I tried hard to dump out the poop each day, but maybe I didn't do a good enough job??
I stored the cup "lid up", but maybe it would have been better lid down. Then I could have just opened it and dumped the poop that had fallen down. It is on a wire shelf, so air flow would not be a problem.
Are there any tips/tricks for keeping these silkworm cups healthy until all the silkworms are eaten?
I didn't want to have to buy a "silkworm bin" too, but I suppose I could get something small if necessary.
HELP!
I purchased a "baby" silkworm cup from Mulberry Farms a couple of weeks ago. Everything was going quite well, Cicero was LOVING the small silkworms, and I thought they were just the coolest things ever. So soft!
Yesterday I noticed something that looked like a bit of mold in the container. A couple of hours later, boom, full blown mold all over the place in the cup. Wuh oh. At that point, I already had dead/dying silkworms and I knew there wasn't much hope. Cicero had eaten just over half of the silkworms in there, so I chalked up the other 50% to a learning experience and threw out the rest of them.
I kept the cup of silkworms on the very top shelf of my wire rack set up. So there was plenty of ventilation up there (or so I thought). My house is at about 40% humidity, so I figured that would be dry enough.
I never noticed any moisture droplets inside of the silkworm cup.
I tried hard to dump out the poop each day, but maybe I didn't do a good enough job??
I stored the cup "lid up", but maybe it would have been better lid down. Then I could have just opened it and dumped the poop that had fallen down. It is on a wire shelf, so air flow would not be a problem.
Are there any tips/tricks for keeping these silkworm cups healthy until all the silkworms are eaten?
I didn't want to have to buy a "silkworm bin" too, but I suppose I could get something small if necessary.
HELP!
