For any of you SDK'rs out therebwho have a lizard, amphibian, or anything else that eats meal worms, this is a blog for you!
Whats great about a meal worm farm?
-Great healthy food source for pets
-Easy to handle
-Fun to watch
-And you will never spend another buck on feeding you're pet!

How it works....
A meal worm farm is a common source for Herpetologists and pet owners. Why? Because these days the pet trade has a large demand on mealworms because they are a #1 food source for pets. Once a meal worm farm is started, it continues to reproduce makeing it a colony that is always ready to be fed to a pet.

How to make it......

Materials:
-Shallow box or plastic drawer unit with flat drawers.
-oats,fruit,veggies,wheat,potato
-mealworms (duh!)
-sawdust

Construction!

1. Take bin or shallow box to an open window-sill, the heat from the sun keeps the worms active. (When you purchase meal worms at a pet store they most likely got them out of a cooler and on the container it probebly says refrigerate. DON'T! When the meal worms are in cool temperatures they shut down! Thats why when you look at them right aftrer being removed from cooled area they are inactive.)

2.Fill the box/bin with two inches of sawdust mixed with oats (oats can be just oatmeal)

3.Cut up a potato into several thin slices and bury throughout the bin/box.

4.Cut fresh fruit and veggies into smal peices and lay ON TOP of the oats and sawdust, this is you're mealworms source of vitemins!

5.Place mealworms inside the box/bin.

Your done!

Hints/Tips
-For a healthyer pet diet, buy cricket calcium powder from you're local petstore and let meal worms crawl around in it right before giving to pet(s)
-Clean and redo farm every other week.
-If you see beetles in the mealworm box LEAVE THEM! thay are adult mealworms and they are what make the babies!!
-It will take 12 weeks for a flourishing meal worm farm to produce. In the mean time buy a nother source of food.