Why are my superworms turning black and dying?
Bought five hundred superworms for my beardie and I have lost maybe a third of them in ten days. They go dark and then they are dead, one after another.
I have been keeping the tub in the fridge because that is what I always did with mealworms, and the bedding is a good few inches deep so they have something to burrow into. Carrot goes in twice a week. Where am I going wrong?
@shallow_bedding · 3h ago · 2 replies
The fridge. That is the whole answer and it is the single most common mistake with these. Mealworms tolerate being chilled to slow them down; superworms do not, and cold kills them. A superworm that dies darkens quickly, which is why your tub looks like a colour problem rather than a temperature one.
Get them out of there and onto a shelf at room temperature, somewhere in the low twenties, and stop refrigerating them entirely.
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@fridge_killed_them · 3h ago
Fifteen years of keeping mealworms in the fridge and I just assumed. Anything else I am importing from that habit?
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