Eleodes goryi larva

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dcheath

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I was checking my E. goryi tub a couple of days ago and found a few mealworms. Checked again yesterday and found somehwere between 30 and 40. Removed the adults, sprinkled food over one end, sprayed the other end, and put some pieces of carrot in the substrate. Now I sit and wait.

 
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Awesome!! Mt goryi have been actively burying themselves so I'm hoping for babies. What set up do you have and what substrate?

 
Very cool
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You mentioned in the other thread about being open for trades or something? What re you interested in?

 
jreidsma said:
Very cool
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You mentioned in the other thread about being open for trades or something? What re you interested in?
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I just have them in a plastic shoebox with coconut coir and some bark slabs tohide. I just put some rotten wood chunks that I picked up today in with them also. As far as trade, I am open to anything really. Beetles, roaches, whatever. Let me know what you have.

 
I have mine in a 2.5 gallon on 60% coco coir and 30% sand. I added some ground up post oak leaves to the cage this weekend. I don't see any babies or eggs but I can wait.
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Edit: Found one mealworm. It was so, so tiny! Hopefully I'll see more as the grow!
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I tried to take a picture but it was so small my iPhone could not focus and I accidently dropped it back into the cage before I could move it to a better surface for picture taking. I'll check again tonight.

 
Thats tiny!

Hmm... maybe you have too many pictures on this website in your albums? Or maybe it needs to be resized, try opening it with paint or other photo editing software and click resize, then make it quite a bit smaller. Or maybe you are trying to post too many at a time?

Or you could make a photobucket account and upload them there, That is what I do.

 
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I got a picture! Look how tiny he is. The font behind him is legalese from a credit card statement so it's very small.

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I found 4 of them this evening and I will put them back into the cage. I'm not really sure what else to do but that seems like a good plan until they get a little bigger right?

 
The way I am keeping mine now is I put the larva in a separate container with some substrate. Then a bunch of carrots. This way they won't get eaten by the adults (I don't know if they would anyways or not) and you can keep a better eye on them.

Or you could keep them in the container with the adults. Just make sure they have some sort of food, if your substrate doesn't have wood or anything then put a carrot in the soil every couple inches or so.

 
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