Excellent and renewable live food source for your fish.

[dirtyblacksocks]

I got one of the 3 tier rubbermaid things from WalMart for 12 bucks, it's got 3 e drawers made out of plastic that you can pull out, wheels on the bottom to move it around.

Just get two large round containers of Quakers Oatmeal and put it in a drawer, put the mealworms in there, cover it with a moist paper towel and put some old veggies and fruits you don't use anymore.

Remember whatever you feed them is going to be in their guts when the fish eat them, so the more nutritious the better.

The papertowel will actually get eatin' through, and they like to hang out on top, it makes them a lot easier to collect instead of digging through oatmeal.

 

[polish]

Interesting, I may look into the meal worms. Not a chance with roaches though, they disgust me. Thanks for the tip.

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

These aren't american cockroaches, they can't fly, don't climb walls and play dead when they're startled. My wife hates them too - but they get huge and it's fun to watch large fish munch on em'...not to mention they can go months without food, survive all sorts of conditions, and have about 300-1000 babies per month that come out at about a penny in size. Per female! Orange spotted roaches, believe they're dubai or somth'n...can't remember the scientific name, they're from Europe.

 

[ozz465]

Great tip bro , im actually planing on buying a few hundred for a colony tommorow at the reptile meet , hopefully my 7 in clown loach would like them as i have yet to see him eat .

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

My clown loach fight over them

 

[ozz465]

My clown loach fight over them

yea my other 6 steal shrimp from every fish in the tank , just the big loach i have yet to see eat , maybe he does at night.

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Dunno, you can probably get a worm blower from Big 5 and inject them with some metro laced water to help clear out parasites.

 

[ozz465]

How long from 1st setting up the colony did it become self sustaining?

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Roughly 3 months or so...if you get them at a large size, with the heat we've go tout here, they should pupate into beatles within a month.

 

[ozz465]

cool thx.