Almost finished with my Turkish Roach setup!

[Texas Ranger]

My origonal tub I had they climbed the walls in an instant.

then it wasent a smooth sided tub dubias can climb it to if its not a really smooth sided tub.

 

[Solid Snake]

They dont climb. they are the same as dubia in every way. just faster and smaller

Oh Thats my main concern with the feeders. Ive seen a cricket walk straight up my wall Dubias seem to have a hard time holding onto the ground

 

[Dave]

Guy at the reptile expo recommended them to me.

Are you talking about the Feeder Nazi? Not naming any names, but he's the sole feeder business allowed at Repticon shows now because he's worked out an exclusivity deal with the Repticon staff. Now he goes around to the animal vendors at Repticon that sell hornworms, silkworms, and other "extra feeders", telling them they can't sell them anymore because he has the "exclusive on feeders at Repticon". Needless to say, he didn't get dubbed "The Feeder Nazi" by me lol.

You'd know him if you met him...don't listen to the guy, he'd tell you anything to make a buck.

 

[pssh]

The lateralis/turkish/red runners can fly. Well, the adult males can. Not often, but it happens.

If you want a not roachy looking roach, get some beetle mimic roaches or green banana roaches.

 

[fluxlizard]

There not that bad you just have to know what you are doing lol. yes they are fast and yes there is a chance they can infest but a very small chance. I have been breeding these guys for a good bit now and I have not had one issue.. knock on wood.

Hey here is my experience. I bought several thousand several years ago when they were a new thing to the hobby.

They gave me the heeby jeebies so I fed them out within a few months of purchase, rather than keeping them around trying to breed them.

Several years later descendants of escapees can still be found in my lizard building and in the yard (outdoors) where it snows and where a winter or two ago we had snow on the ground for a couple months straight- during that period I flipped over some boards in the yard and found some of these roaches on the ground alive and moving beneath the boards. With snow on the ground. For several weeks.

They set up camp for a long while in my storage room in the lizard building where they reproduced and it was their preferred room in spite of temps in the 50s most of the winter there and they have very little to eat. This winter thankfully they seem to have abandoned this room for some reason- but it took several years...

They have gotten less this past year- don't know why, they are still there but in far fewer numbers. During the summer when I flip a bowl in the tortoise pen or one of the large lizard pens which are built into the ground I can count on finding a few beneath.

Thank goodness I never brought them into the house and they have never wanted to wander in from outdoors.

I have found males flying around our porch light in the past- they do fly and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise.

In fact, we went camping at our favorite beach which happens to be next to a navy base last summer. Our campsite was bombarded by this species- presumably they came over from the navy base next door. This species was introduced to the USA from military activities in the middle east (Iraq, Afghanistan) where they are a pest and hitched a ride home on military equipment returning. They flew around and trying to eat outdoors at night had become miserable as they swarmed our picnic table after dark. This was the first year we encountered this species at that campsite. Thank goodness here at home we are away from the humid ocean and at a cooler, higher elevation so their numbers are kept in check.

If I met your parents, the first words out of my mouth would be get rid of that species now before it is too late and replace it with dubia or anything elses (In the past decade I've fed out millions of dubia, hissers and lobster roaches especially, and none of them are infestive or hardy like these- even the lobster roaches are a much safer choice although I would only ever use dubia and hissers in my home).

They are illegal to purchase now in several states, and if you search for their scientific name in google you will see that exterminators are now trained to deal with infestations of this species.

They are bad news.

 

[AndrewWelch]

Hey here is my experience. I bought several thousand several years ago when they were a new thing to the hobby.

They gave me the heeby jeebies so I fed them out within a few months of purchase, rather than keeping them around trying to breed them.

Several years later descendants of escapees can still be found in my lizard building and in the yard (outdoors) where it snows and where a winter or two ago we had snow on the ground for a couple months straight- during that period I flipped over some boards in the yard and found some of these roaches on the ground alive and moving beneath the boards. With snow on the ground. For several weeks.

They set up camp for a long while in my storage room in the lizard building where they reproduced and it was their preferred room in spite of temps in the 50s most of the winter there and they have very little to eat. This winter thankfully they seem to have abandoned this room for some reason- but it took several years...

They have gotten less this past year- don't know why, they are still there but in far fewer numbers. During the summer when I flip a bowl in the tortoise pen or one of the large lizard pens which are built into the ground I can count on finding a few beneath.

Thank goodness I never brought them into the house and they have never wanted to wander in from outdoors.

I have found males flying around our porch light in the past- they do fly and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise.

In fact, we went camping at our favorite beach which happens to be next to a navy base last summer. Our campsite was bombarded by this species- presumably they came over from the navy base next door. This species was introduced to the USA from military activities in the middle east (Iraq, Afghanistan) where they are a pest and hitched a ride home on military equipment returning. They flew around and trying to eat outdoors at night had become miserable as they swarmed our picnic table after dark. This was the first year we encountered this species at that campsite. Thank goodness here at home we are away from the humid ocean and at a cooler, higher elevation so their numbers are kept in check.

If I met your parents, the first words out of my mouth would be get rid of that species now before it is too late and replace it with dubia or anything elses (In the past decade I've fed out millions of dubia, hissers and lobster roaches especially, and none of them are infestive or hardy like these- even the lobster roaches are a much safer choice although I would only ever use dubia and hissers in my home).

They are illegal to purchase now in several states, and if you search for their scientific name in google you will see that exterminators are now trained to deal with infestations of this species.

They are bad news.

Thanks for telling me this. I got rid of them yesterday and put them in a bag inside of a bag inside of a garbage bag .