Adding New Blood to the Gene Pool

[Andee]

So I was running extremely low on male adult dubia for a while because most of them seemed to hit the end of their life spans at the same time. Hoping all the males I sent out recently will live for several more months if not a full year yet. But I ended up breaking down and buying 25 new adult males to add to the colony, just so I could get it up to par again and honestly because I like adding new blood in of both sexes at least once a year. So I put these boys in today, and already only about 5 hours later, they are claiming territory, having turf wars, and mating with females who aren't already pregnant yet. Gotta love the boys <3 Colony should be good soon I hope. Adding new blood always helps get everyone riled up and ready to start breeding ^^

 

[opheliaeatsbugs]

Do you have orange head roaches?

 

[Andee]

Nope. Not yet, currently I am trying to decide between ordering orange head roaches or something similar next or starting the cricket colony... I mean I generally will not keep orange heads like most people do.

I owe one person around 140 dollars or something for some millipedes he's holding onto for me, so that's the next thing I will be spending money on for sure, since he will only be holding onto them until the end of Sept. So that's what I am focusing on... as well as helping out a friend who is hurting pretty badly. So I am sending a care package of some insects his way for his various reptiles and inverts (so that it can ease the money strain) because life has hated on him a bit too long these last few months. And he currently has a juvenile beardie whose eating him out of house and home XD.

So I have been augmenting his small growing dubia colony with several hundred nymphs a month from my own colony. But currently I have to buy some, but I am also buying some bulk superworms, some butterworms, some BSFL, and maybe some cricks (we haven't decided on those yet) will cost around 40 dollars plus shipping in the long run but should hold him over and help reduce stress for a while. Sadly his insect colonies are just starting out so it does take time and a hungry beardie does not wait XD.

I also am sending the entire flat there a care package for the humans themselves, but that's not a super rush. Considering I will likely be spending a couple hundred dollars on it. But it's non-perishable healthy and some fun snack items.

 

[Andee]

Though the above post may sound like I am complaining I am not, I just wanted to give a reason to my lovely customers why adding different insects has been slow. Currently I am helping my friend a lot so that he can safely keep his reptiles which he usually has had no problem with but life has fun screwing with us at inopportune moments. Since I am doing ok currently I help where and when I can. And will do it before buying anything else currently. This person has been amazing and wonderful through out my entire life, and currently I could not imagine not helping. So I hope you can all bear with me with the waiting ^^