A question on roaches

[Stone Marshall]

Hello all!

I feed my veiled mostly crickets (dusted of course) I have also bought hornworms, waxworms, superworms, and butterworms in the past.

Recently I purchased 100 dubai roaches. My girls cannot resist them! They love them!

My question is, how many a day would be enough? They can destroy 10 to 15 large crickets in a feeding. They are both well over two years old and are fully grown. I was thinking 5 to 10 roaches in a feeding, but wanted some community input. Attached is a pic of my setup....

Thanks in advance!

 

[Daniel266jz]

Hello all!

I feed my veiled mostly crickets (dusted of course) I have also bought hornworms, waxworms, superworms, and butterworms in the past.

Recently I purchased 100 dubai roaches. My girls cannot resist them! They love them!

My question is, how many a day would be enough? They can destroy 10 to 15 large crickets in a feeding. They are both well over two years old and are fully grown. I was thinking 5 to 10 roaches in a feeding, but wanted some community input. Attached is a pic of my setup....

Thanks in advance!

As far as i know roaches have more "meat" than crickets so appropriately sized roaches they should take down 6. My big veiled takes down around that much and a hornworm after and hes content anymore i offer he wont eat them. Hope that helps. I use Discoids though and i think they are a bit bigger than Dubias.

 

[jamest0o0]

Veiled people are lucky. Panthers hate dubias IME. I usually have to sneak a roach in my chams mouth while eating a superworm or something else. I'm not sure about veileds, but my Panthers do fine on just a few large dubias a week.

 

[NickTide]

are we talking adult dubias? If so, probably 1 or 2. If we are talking smalls, they can probably eat 50.

I don't think veildes would ever turn down food. 20 years ago when I bred vieldes, though dubias were something that were unheard of, I would feed scrambled eggs during food shortages. I am not condoning this, but it did work. I would take a cricket leg and held it with a piece of egg. The bottomless eating machines would gobble them down. Vieldes would eat anything that resembles an insect.

 

[timw1]

I wish my guy ate roaches. I have a huge colony who are eating me out of house and home.

 

[Daniel266jz]

I wish my guy ate roaches. I have a huge colony who are eating me out of house and home.

Of Dubai’s?

 

[JacksJill]

@timw1 try feeding a size or two smaller. The little ones have better action. Also try flipping them on their back (the roaches not the chameleon) and hand feeding them.

 

[timw1]

Of Dubai’s?

Yup

 

[timw1]

@timw1 try feeding a size or two smaller. The little ones have better action. Also try flipping them on their back (the roaches not the chameleon) and hand feeding them.

Ok, i'll give that a try. I really like the Dubias, but I'm not the one eating them I've been know to snack on crickets on occasion

 

[Daniel266jz]

Yup

Wish they weren’t illegal in Florida, I’d take some off of you I have 3 chameleons and two spiders to feed hahah I have a small discoid colony. Trying to get them breeding

 

[JacksJill]

LOL, They are super convenient but like you I can't vouch for their flavor. The juvenile panthers, female panthers and the jackson's go for them best. The older males get over them at some point.

 

[jamest0o0]

The only way to get my adult male Panthers to eat dubias is sneak it in their mouth while chewing something else. OR withhold food for like a week.... they prefer orangeheads much more. My Parsons on the other hand has days where he pulls food right out of my hand and then can go days where he's interested in nothing.