Okay so my old species of dermestids have died out so i've since started a new colony i've only had it for a few weeks[i think 2 months] and it took me forever to get babies to turn into adults i'm just at my second generation of larvae. Guess thats what you get for starting with five larvae and then find out that out of those five one is a female and the rest are males. It means i wasn't able to reach 1-100 in one step oh well sooner or later i'll get 100+ then i'll be getting around 1000+ a month before long i'll have so many that i won't know what to do with them all. Thats when i'll start my second breeding bin and put all my adults in there and keep the larvae in the other enclosure. Then i'll be doing overfeeding challenges and other intreasting things with the species.
The reason why i said wait till i have 2 functional colonies is that i think my other OFC's failed to do 2 things:
1-Lack of experince
2-Lack of dermestids and a reinforcement colony
This time i hope that the table will turn the other way for the better. Anyway thats just an update! BTW i've been keeping dermestids for over 400 days!
~dermyking
No comments:
Post a Comment