Commercial Japanese beetle supplies and food items you probably have never heard of-second half of video 5:50

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These beetle breeding items are things you never see in the US (we just see the beetle jellies, holders, splitters and a few things) and some like the anti-mite bedding sound a little dangerous. I think the substrate water is just water? Anybody use the orange gel beads or pellets?

 
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I thought the pellets were protein pellets but they are not. I can't really figure out what they are or if anything actually eats them.

 
Yea... I used it very long time ago... probably in 2005? It is kinda mushy (watery) jelly like thing you mix it up with substrate to keep moisture in substrate so you don't have to spray water on there. Don't remember this to be any good or bad.. just..... s*it.. Barely anyone use it these days.. I didn't even know anyone makes it even now..lol

Also that anti-mite thing... It's been there for a long time too. I remember beetle shops selling them in 2005.. Very old thing...

 
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Ratmosphere said:
Never heard of those gel pellets being used!
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Did you see these in the video? They smell like the unique odor of Japanese substrate but nothing seems to eat them and the ingredient list give no clue. There are a lot of interesting things in those few seconds. 

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My only thought to that was, you see the picture of the rhino beetle? On the pellet? The pellet looks huge in comparison. 

 
Ratmosphere said:
My only thought to that was, you see the picture of the rhino beetle? On the pellet? The pellet looks huge in comparison. 
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I thought the rhino beetle was on a small log or stick. The pellets are much smaller than rabbit pellets and very solid. I haven't seen the other items yet. 

 
Okay, I got the info about the pellet looking package!

So it is a substrate (flake soil) that has been fermented, just in a form of pellets, like wood pellet that we all use. You just have to add water (moisture) to expand it to feed your beetle larvae. Interesting way to preserve a quality of substrate imo..

 
JKim said:
Okay, I got the info about the pellet looking package!

So it is a substrate (flake soil) that has been fermented, just in a form of pellets, like wood pellet that we all use. You just have to add water (moisture) to expand it to feed your beetle larvae. Interesting way to preserve a quality of substrate imo..
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In the earlier post I explained it does not expand when moisture is added. I have two packages of it I acquired last year. It says it is protein but nothing is attracted to it and the ingredient list says organic material. I don't think flake soil would be described as protein.

 
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Possibly one of those situations where you break off a piece, make a hole near the larva, and drop it down to them? Like the dog food method?

 
Ratmosphere said:
Possibly one of those situations where you break off a piece, make a hole near the larva, and drop it down to them? Like the dog food method?
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I don't know the answer but I have some and have been trying to figure it out for a while so I only know many things it isn't. 

 
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