Made a mistake in the video guys! I apologize! Isopods may not eat the entire beetle. They more or less rip it apart and will eat the insides of the beetle. I thought they were consuming the whole thing but found the hollowed out beetles in some of the moss. I apologize for the inconsistency in the video! My buffalo beetle basically do the same thing, I noticed this after feeding them darkling beetles and then removing the husk later to find the isopods won't touch it. Again, I apologize!
when my superworm container gets full of frass, like when you see alot of poop and less oatmeal i just change their substrate and use the frash on my plants. and my superworm eggs just hatched from the egg collectors,thanks for giving me tips and tricks
so, maybe once I see it, it'll be obvious to me, but right now I only have 1 beetle, 8 pupae and only 2 superworms that haven't died. So very little to no frass yet. And I already was planning on giving the frass (as well as dead worms/pupae/beetles) to my isopods but eh, considering how easily things mold in an isopod bin....how do you separate the frass from the bedding material?
I wait until the worms have converted all of the substrate into frass ( depends on how many worms you have ) and then run it through a kitchen sifter ( something a little less fine than a flour sifter ) and I put it in a container.
@@KCExotics ......... I'm sorry. sometimes I have a hard time finding the right words.....here is my confusion. separating the frass from the good substrate. because both will fall through my sifter. You say "all" substrate gets turned to frass. do you mean literally "all"? at what point do you usually replenish the substrate? or do you only harvest the frass that just happens to be substrate free and the rest gets tossed?
Love your content. Have you tried pea meal just sprinkle on top. Mites eat then die while worms eat and grow. I saw it on TH-cam check it out braw cheers Ricky 🕺💃🎵🎶🐈⬛🎸
Made a mistake in the video guys! I apologize! Isopods may not eat the entire beetle. They more or less rip it apart and will eat the insides of the beetle. I thought they were consuming the whole thing but found the hollowed out beetles in some of the moss. I apologize for the inconsistency in the video! My buffalo beetle basically do the same thing, I noticed this after feeding them darkling beetles and then removing the husk later to find the isopods won't touch it. Again, I apologize!
when my superworm container gets full of frass, like when you see alot of poop and less oatmeal i just change their substrate and use the frash on my plants.
and my superworm eggs just hatched from the egg collectors,thanks for giving me tips and tricks
Thank you! It is awesome to see people taking advantage of their waste! Get every last thing you can out of them!
I usually just flush any frass, molt or dead worms down the toilet along with any slices of Apple they did not eat
so, maybe once I see it, it'll be obvious to me, but right now I only have 1 beetle, 8 pupae and only 2 superworms that haven't died. So very little to no frass yet. And I already was planning on giving the frass (as well as dead worms/pupae/beetles) to my isopods but eh, considering how easily things mold in an isopod bin....how do you separate the frass from the bedding material?
I wait until the worms have converted all of the substrate into frass ( depends on how many worms you have ) and then run it through a kitchen sifter ( something a little less fine than a flour sifter ) and I put it in a container.
more or less fine that say, a soil sifter? I would attach a picture of the exact sifter but I guess TH-cam doesn't like that.
@@SanosukeSagara18 yes, as long as the holes are big enough to let the frass fall through, but small enough to catch the worms.
@@KCExotics ......... I'm sorry. sometimes I have a hard time finding the right words.....here is my confusion. separating the frass from the good substrate. because both will fall through my sifter.
You say "all" substrate gets turned to frass. do you mean literally "all"? at what point do you usually replenish the substrate? or do you only harvest the frass that just happens to be substrate free and the rest gets tossed?
Love your content. Have you tried pea meal just sprinkle on top. Mites eat then die while worms eat and grow. I saw it on TH-cam check it out braw cheers Ricky 🕺💃🎵🎶🐈⬛🎸
I have not! However, I'm pretty certain I have developed a completely new way of getting rid of them. Time will tell!