Hatching one mealworm for kicks

[knifegill]

Is this the best forum for this topic? I'd expect the best answers from critter-keepers. Anyway, I've been using mealworms as food forever and just thought it would be fun to let one become a beetle. I've got a large (not hormone-treated) mealworm in a quart-sized critter keeper with a fistfull of oats, a carrot, some wet bread and a massivore pellet. Aside from keeping these elements in good condition, what should I watch for?
So far, he has taken well to room temperature and is rooting through the oatmeal. It looks like he wants out, he's trying to climb the walls. What could be wrong? Temperature? Nothing?

 

[coura]

No need to do that amount of care. Just keep them normaly with some carrot for them to munch on and they will eventualy metamorphose

 

[knifegill]

Great. Thanks!

 

[Noddy]

feed them white bread and put them on a warm place, for example in the hood of your tank.Wait for a week or two and you got happy fish! My oscar just loves them.
The whitebread makes them grow fast but will cloud your water a bit during feedingtime.

I nowadays feed the mealworms ciclid pellets to add vitamine to my O's diet, cuz he refuses to eat any pellets.

 

[evilxyardxgnome]

lol I never actually tried to grow them out into beetles. If you just wait long enough you will get the white aliens and then bam, you get a beetle.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

All they do is turn into smelly beetles. Not very exciting.

 

[jason longboard]

All they do is turn into smelly beetles. Not very exciting.

coming from the cockroach king he calls these things smelly beetles.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

coming from the cockroach king he calls these things smelly beetles.

At least my roaches don't stink!

 

[Citrinellus]

Make sure when you see pupae to take them out, otherwise the other mealworms will go cannibalistic on them.

 

[knifegill]

He's hanging out in a rinsed-out tic-tac container around my neck to stay warm, with damp whole wheat bread, a tiny carrot chunk and oatmeal. I wrote "Wermen Haus" on the white nasty left from peeling the label off. He's more active now that he lives in my body's thermal column. I hope to start a fad with this one! Except that tic-tac boxes are ugly. I need something more original and appealing than a tic-tac box. Any ideas?