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BugMom · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 196 Location: Santa Clarita

Just wondering if anybody keeps these? I know some of you guys are into preserving skeletons and stuff, do you use dermestid cultures to clean them?

I received a small colony as a gift from a teacher friend of mine. The kit came with two freeze-dried frogs to feed them, but they didn't seem to like them. I gave them a mouse that my ball python had refused and they went nuts! It was nothing but bones in like 2 days! Very cool little critters.

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Celeste · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:57 am Post subject:

I think museums usually keep them for preparing skeletons.
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BamBaboons · Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 273 Location: Bakersfield

Chase and I have been wanting a colony for a while, We have a few fuzzy critters we would like to preserve.
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ftorres · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject:

HEllo All,
Bugmom, let us know when you have enough of them so you can set us up with some.

have fun with them.

Next thing you know you will be looking for horses,cows,or other large animal.

francisco
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BamBaboons · Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 273 Location: Bakersfield

she can't have any of mine! ::lol::

no horsies for the bugmom.
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BugMom · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 196 Location: Santa Clarita

Oh not for me! I like my critters alive and fleshy, thanks. Funny thing though. When I got the box with the dermestids in it, there was a big sticker on the box that said "Biological Hazard -- Do Not Release". Then when I opened the box, there was a jar full of dermestids with air holes that were bigger than the beetles! Took me an hour to pick all the beetles out of the packing material. My hubby nearly had a coronary when he found out that there may be flesh-eating beetles loose in our living room! Shocked

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Celeste · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:36 am Post subject:

Tell your hubby they only like *dead* flesh, so he's in no danger unless he's a zombie...! ;-)
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BugMom · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 196 Location: Santa Clarita

You haven't seen him when he gets home from work! He could actually be a zombie!

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