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Be sure to check your roach shipments for lobsters if you don't want climbers. I saw something running across my plastic a couple of times and I thought it was just a big female red runner but when I cleaned out my bin the other day I noticed several nasty lobster roaches in it. Really quite...

we've come a long way since the days where most insects were fed bran right up until feeding time. I grind up a lot of my own ingredients using non medicated chic feed as the basis for most of what I feed to insects. I will mix in whole grain ground cereals and I always have a caroteniod source...

Bassets cricket ranch has been good for me because I always seem to get a significant overcount. I've also used one called five points crickets which has been good and I got at least what I paid for. I havent really had any bad cricket places I've tried, probably because I avoided places with...

Crickets are all about the condition you receive them in and how you keep them. I keep mine in plastic tubs with screen ventilation and sufficient egg crates and I very rarely have many dead in any bin unless its really big and old crickets. They always have access to moisture but their cages...

I would imagine he will go back on crix eventually, might just need a break. If you're feeding a variety of insects, I don't think I'd be overly concerned. Try the florida legal roaches, hatch out some flies, silkworms, hornworms, superworms, black soldier flies, tons of stuff available these...

I've got enough red runners to start selling some off now. 15$ get 100+ of mixed sizes of them shipped to your door to get your own colony going. Most will be large nymphs or adults with a few mixed smaller sizes to give you some variety of aging as the colony grows. Payment is through paypal...

I use them because they store well and I breed about half buy about half. You can grow them in nonmedicated chicken feed and give them carrots, sweet potatoes, even a small amount of greens to increase their nutritional content. If you fed crickets or dubia bran they would be horrible feeders...

I don't know how fast they will breed. I have some of those but mostly the flatter kind. I put some untreated boards in weeds and the boards hold moisture under them. Can usually catch quite a few at a time.

I've hatched out all kind of reptiles directly in vermiculite and with suspended incubation. Both will nearly always work unless you have some species that is known to have very specific incubation requirements or infertile eggs in which case nothing can work. I have used those before two...

If you're going to have a bunch of sensors, accurite is going to be better because the sensors are cheaper. If you want a maximum of 2 sensors, the la crosse is good. Both will send texts on alert. I have been using accurite for several years and only recently started using la crosse when my...

Have to agree with everyone else. Using the compacts when we know the linear is better for your reptiles is not worth it. Good bulbs are not cheap but worth it as it is so critical. I am using some reptisun and some Arcadia D3+ series. In the searching I've done, both seem to be really good...

They are not harmful to feed some to your lizard, but you don't want them to become a large part of its diet over a long period of time. They do not have that many vitamins and minerals as they are usually grown in bran/honey mix and they are relatively high in fat. So feed away what you've got...

Gutloading will increase the nutritional value of your insects but you'll still need to use supplementation to ensure they receive enough vitamins and minerals. I would trust Repashy products more than say Flukers. Mark Finke did test on several commercial gutloads and found that only one that...

Just curious what you feed the orange heads?

Kritters for Christ seems to have a decent deal of adult Orange Heads so I picked up 24 females and several males. I have not tried these before but I saw some references stating they breed slightly faster than dubia and since my poor dubia colony cannot keep up I figured I'd give these a try as...

Given the time of year, I imagine it got too hot somehow.

I've started putting together an article on feeder insect nutrition but it's just getting started. Here's what I've got so far in draft and lots of linked sources. Keep in mind that I have not proof read this yet so there could be mistakes, typos, etc. Calcium, Availability, and Gutloading...

Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation on feeder insects. I suggest you read the research by a guy named Finke if you want to get really good information on the actual nutritional content of feeder insects. Many species are literally what they eat. So if you measure something raised in...

lol nope just roaches and yes they are multiplying at an insane pace already. Not only are they producing fast but the little boogers grow fast too.

I am not sure what country you are in, but in the USA you can get butterworms and waxworms at walmart. If you go to a local bait shop, you can probably get spikes for cheap and let a few turn into flies at a time. . I am pretty sure crickets, hornworms, and superworms are at any reptile pet...