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Surinam roaches are small but they’re at least 3 times the size of an adult banana roach and I say about the same size as lobsters. Just as a reference for anyone who isn’t familiar. I don’t know if I could keep up with my feeder demand without the reliability of my lobsters/pallids though...

There is legitimately no catch. They’re just burrowers that get no recognition in the feeder world. Technically they climb but they hate leaving the substrate. You could probably keep them without a lid and still never have them leave the bin although I wouldn’t because they like it humid...

I find it hard to believe Surinam roaches aren’t a more popular feeder. Perfect size, parthenogenetic, possibly the easiest roach to raise, can climb but never do...

Definitely. All of my melleri except one prefer large, winged roaches. One of the six will only take small roaches and they have to be running up a branch. They’ll all crush several lobsters in a feeding however that one melleri refuses to take a roach larger than an adult lobster. Dubia...

Aside from animals there are plenty of unwanted invertebrates that are more than capable of making entry into a roach bin through ventilation holes. Trust me on this one.

Careful with keeping them outside. You’re asking for unwelcomed attention. Rats, pest insects, ANTS...

All of my roaches are in the garage. Not trying to catch a divorce lol

Dubia don’t move after you put them down. I hand feed because all of my melleri are on free range full time but sometimes I need to send a roach up a tree to a higher up chameleon and dubia are useless for that. Discoids run when you put them down. Discoids are a bit bigger too so maybe not for...

Lobsters are climbers. For a long time I said I wouldn’t keep climbers but I ended up getting them and they’re my favorite feeder roach right now. They reproduce at an astonishing rate, they eat like mad for their size (almost to the point of it being a negative detail) and they are active in a...

I keep large chameleons, melleri. So my list is skewed that way I suppose. Lobster/giant lobsters (Cricket replacement) Dubia Discoids Orange heads Hissers

Not in the US as far as I know.

Would you honestly say it’s worth the $10 even if the only species I have access to is S americana?

Contact Steve McNary of Chameleons International or Nick Narta of Full Throttle Feeders and buy cricket crack and/or bug bufffet. Go from there. Those are 2 great dry gutloads to use as a base and add in fresh fruit and vegetable matter for moisture.

BEE POLLEN

I use Bug Buffet as my base dry gut load and I often add extra pollen, spirulina, flax, sunflower seeds and other dry ingredients to that depending on what I have on hand at the time. That's not touching on my wet gut load indreidents. I started mixing ground pollen into my plain calcium a few...

I think I'm just confused by your initial response to my post questioning the idea of not getting gravid females. I still don't see how or why anyone would be assured they would not get gravid females. There isn't really such thing as a farmed chameleon that can be sold as virgin.

The term farm bred just means wild caught from populations introduced on private property. Don't imagine rows of cages or anything like that.

Whose parents?

Steve assured you that you would NOT get gravid females? Might want to recheck that. Just about any wild adult female will havealready been mated prior to capture.

You'll have enough on your plate making sure each individual animal acclimates smoothly to captive life and gets the medical treatment it potentially needs. I wouldn't even be thinking about cohabitation at this point (if ever). You'd need a bare minimum of a small room sized enclosure to even...