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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a question about looking after a dermestid colony. We have one going along happily at the moment, but we haven’t had them for more than a month or two. We place each small carcass we feed them in a takeaway container, to keep specimens
separate. Right now we’re providing the dermestids with water by giving them cotton wool soaked in water, placed in large bottle caps, which we place in the takeaway container next to the skeleton. This means the larvae don’t have to go far to look for something
to drink (come to think of it though I’m not sure if it’s the larvae or the adults that need to drink, or both). However, these small water supplies also dry out quickly. I’d like to instead have a larger water source, something like a chick water dispenser
with cotton wool at the bottom, in the corner of the colony (which is smaller than 1m x 1m), but I’m not sure if this would be detrimental to the larvae. In a nutshell, I guess I’m asking how far a water source for dermestids needs to be from their food source
for them to be happy and efficient. Thanks for your thoughts!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tonya<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Tonya Haff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Collections Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Australian National Wildlife Collection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Canberra, Australia
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