How to Remove Mealworm Sheddings From Your Trays

[@lorraineayre]

Any suggestions for how to clean sheddings if you live where you have icy snowy winters four 4 months?

[@jecriggs]

Thanks for the hair dryer tip! I don't have a shop vac, so was toying with the idea of trying a leaf blower, but I think that would probably be overkill. ;-)

[@kevinmickelson5128]

I use a battery operated leaf blower...works great

[@SamatWar]

In 4 months time he will have realized the full potential of sheddings and the best way I've seen on how to harvest them

[@bacchusquintilis7356]

do the sheddings have any uses?

[@SamatWar]

@@bacchusquintilis7356 well they are a Chitin or keratin based husk, which essentially is almost like a fine powder after going through the vacuum. So some farmers might buy it for anything that might need those ingredients, also not sure if it works well for plants like frass

[@bacchusquintilis7356]

@@SamatWar what about as a fish food supplement for aquaponic set up? any thoughts?

[@SamatWar]

@@bacchusquintilis7356 not very knowledgeable on aquaponics but it will be a very fine light dust type of material. If u have something that can eat it. I dont see why not, along as they wont suffer from too much calcium/chitin/keratin. Because that's essentially what it is.

[@gaga4goats584]

Do the shedding always go to the top? Do you have a video on how to get the larger worms separated from the small ones? I feed them to my chickens and bluebirds

[@spacecoastmealworms]

Gaga4 Goats, the sheddings generally settle to the top as long as you don’t manually mix up the substrate. I use those green bucket sifters to separate my worms by size: www.tinyurl.com/bucketsifter

[@beebob1279]

@@spacecoastmealworms I've seen those sifter used on other videos. Pretty cool

[@nancyfahey7518]

I thought about using a hair dryer. This probably works better.

[@Cheryl5022]

Great video. I give the shedding to my super worm beetles.

[@farhananyc1963]

what do you mean? Do they eat it? How do you collect the shedding?

[@trenaebowers1968]

Can I just let them eat the shed skin to get the nutrients from them

[@spacecoastmealworms]

They won’t eat enough to get rid of the buildup

[@trenaebowers1968]

@@spacecoastmealworms so after shedding their skin they won't eat it to get their energy back I heard tarantulas do it

[@jadeslocombe9317]

@@trenaebowers1968 tarantulas don't eat their exuviate. After the moulting process they may look as though they're trying to eat it, while actually trying to recover moisture from the shed layer. Some tarantulas are a bit more destructive while doing this and practically shred the moult so people think they're eating part of them - all the pieces will be around *somewhere*. If there was anything to gain by eating them we would find them with considerably less regularity, and would most likely rarely find sheds from wild spiders.

[@fishblue70]

Do you sell worms?

[@davonsmith6263]

Does this also remove the dead mealworms?

[@farhananyc1963]

no

[@OrganicRawRootsFarm]

My chickens would go crazy for the skin of the worms

[@beebob1279]

didn't think of that.

[@FougereFamilyAdventures]

Love it! Thanks for this video

[@justachick3114]

welp, that was pretty simple! thanks!

[@robin2012ism]

haha, brilliant.