good luck buddy! I gave up on mine, if your going to use bugs, take good care of them and I would have a couple of colonies incase you get a disease in one the other should be ok. I would not recomend doing any farm animals, because I think that is one of the possible causes that lead to my beatles demise do to the vacines they might have gotten. try doing fish, I did some carp and bluegills a couple of times and they turned out great. I also stopped using volum 40 and peroxide and just used spray paint. looked better to me. good luck again, don't give up, have fun with the brains!