Propagating Worms as Food for Exotic Pets

Video Transcript

" Hi I’m Daniel Keeper owner and operator of Zoo Keeper Exotic Pets in Austin, Texas and on behalf of Expert Village.com; today we will be talking about some of the support things that you may need for your exotic pets like how to propagate your own food. So what we do is put one worm in each cup; kind of like a salsa cup. You could also use a film canister that works real well. You simply put the worm in there with no sub straight, no food no water. Snap the lid on there. You ventilated a few times with a thumb tack and you put them in a dark place. Keep them at 80 to 90 degrees and roughly 8 to 12 days you’ll end up with this. It’s sort of a little crystals form of that worm. It’s a little creature but it is alive as you can see and it is sort of an in between stage to what you finally want to get which is a beetle. This is what the worm ultimately turns into and these are called Darkling beetles. Some turn out to be male and some turn out to be female. Once they have turned into a beetle in their individual containers, then you go back and put them in a community like this and this is wheat bran in the bottom and they are fed potatoes. This is very inexpensive and very easy to do. This can be done in a warm closet. These beetles then breed, lay eggs in the sub straight and produce tiny tiny baby versions of the adult worm. "