ABDragons Live Black Cleaner Beetles Small Pet & Reptile Food, 1000 count

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  • Beetles are a great cleaner crew for your insect feeders.
  • Keep your insect colonies clean and healthy.
  • Black cleaner beetles eat decaying organic material.
  • Natural way to keep your feeder tubs clean.
  • Excess larvae can be fed to baby lizards or invertebrates.

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Feeding Instructions

Questions & Answers

5 Customer Questions

Are these the Meal Worm beetles?

Answer by Chewy • Feb 02, 2023
These are not mealworm beetles. They do produce lesser worms which can be used to feed to smaller reptiles.

can I put in tank with my bearded dragons?

Answer by Chewy • Feb 02, 2023
These cannot be put in a bearded dragon habitat.

can the beetles themselves be fed to my pets? or just the larvae?

Answer by Chewy • Nov 25, 2023
The beetles cannot be fed to your pet. You can feed the larvae or the worms that come from the beetles.

Can these go in with crickets to keep their tub clean or only Dubai?

Answer by Chewy • Feb 02, 2023
These can be used with crickets to keep their tub clean.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
By Sara on May 14, 2025

They take over your tank easily

I was drowning in tiny lesser mealworms and couldn’t keep up with how often they needed to be culled. I have a decent size dubia roach colony and multiple 15-20

I was drowning in tiny lesser mealworms and couldn’t keep up with how often they needed to be culled. I have a decent size dubia roach colony and multiple 15-20 gallon tanks to shuffle things around. I wasn’t expecting these to be quite as prolific as they were. These beetles are voracious enough to clean whole mouse carcasses and will easily outcompete the roaches. Eventually I had to take a chance and just dry out the tank, they are a lot less resilient than the Dubia roaches so my colony did recover. I wouldn’t recommend unless you have a very very very large colony in an enclosure bigger than 120 gallons.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars
By Megan on Apr 16, 2025

Okay....

I ordered 1000. I got about 600 alive. My beardie won't eat dead ones :/

I ordered 1000. I got about 600 alive. My beardie won't eat dead ones :/

Rated 2 out of 5 stars
By ColonelClaypool on May 15, 2023

Large amount arived dead

These beetles are great when they are alive but so many arrive dead that ordering 1000 is like ordering 500.

These beetles are great when they are alive but so many arrive dead that ordering 1000 is like ordering 500.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars
By NOPE on May 26, 2022

DESCRIPTION MAY BE IMPROVED

It would have helped if it was more clear, that these are extra tiny, climbing-type critters. Not the best for the standard pet supply store cage in an apartment;

It would have helped if it was more clear, that these are extra tiny, climbing-type critters. Not the best for the standard pet supply store cage in an apartment; concerned that beetles will escape. No time to call customer service for refund/ credit. Discarded.