Comments for juderose.com http://www.juderose.com/blog tiny tidbits from the life of artist Jude rose Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:30:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on tips? by Pat McGrath http://www.juderose.com/blog/?p=37&cpage=1#comment-2 Pat McGrath Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:30:43 +0000 http://www.juderose.com/blog/?p=37#comment-2 My wife and I collect Monarch caterpillars and raise them to the butterfly stage and release them. We find them in egg form and many times as small as a pencil lead (they had just recently come out of the egg). We have no problems with them. Our set up is 3 ten gallon aquariums with window screen tops. We collect leaves and keep them in a bag in the refrigerator. We only put in a few leaves when the cats are small and then more as they get larger. We sometimes have 100 cats in a single aquarium. We clean the fras and other material out every fee days (more often as the cats get larger). We line the bottoms of the aquariums with paper towels or used printer paper so as to absorb moisture. We recently bought a couple of collapseable cages as at fleet farm that are designed for hamsters or guinee pigs, but they work great for transporting our little critters. Hope this helps. My wife and I collect Monarch caterpillars and raise them to the butterfly stage and release them. We find them in egg form and many times as small as a pencil lead (they had just recently come out of the egg). We have no problems with them. Our set up is 3 ten gallon aquariums with window screen tops. We collect leaves and keep them in a bag in the refrigerator. We only put in a few leaves when the cats are small and then more as they get larger. We sometimes have 100 cats in a single aquarium. We clean the fras and other material out every fee days (more often as the cats get larger). We line the bottoms of the aquariums with paper towels or used printer paper so as to absorb moisture.
We recently bought a couple of collapseable cages as at fleet farm that are designed for hamsters or guinee pigs, but they work great for transporting our little critters.
Hope this helps.

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