Best Insect Enclosures

[littleliz]

A brewing bucket with the top of a pair of tights instead of the lid works well. I don't like touching crickets but with a pair of diposable gloves or a buttie bag over my hand I have no problems ^__^

 

[Ricardo]

The best way to keep out your parents out of your room is keeping Hissing roaches I had 4 males, they where huge, and lived in an uncovered terrarium(never went out!!!)
And i introduced them to my mum, and after it there was no matter what else animals where in my room lol nobody entered!

Crix...i breed them too, but the noise was annoying so i quit the breeding. How about to try ask some live food from the "local" ZOO, if it is close to you???
I worked in the zoo, and lots of people came in for buying bugs, stick insects, roaches... worth a try i think!

Cheers: Ricardo

 

[Drone]

My Panther, Evo, likes dubia

ahh roaches dilemma..
I used to have Blattaphobia due to traumatic experience when i was a kid (something involving tropical country, a really old rickety house, a dumb kid with a pesticide spray, and about 30,000 roaches of different sizes and colors).

I got a chameleon, got tired of crickets, with the help of 1 member here, I got a free starter colony of Dubia.
My face turned white when he calmly gave me couple female adult roaches and kept adding the male..

Do you know when you are about to feed them to your cham, the adult often protect the hatchlings by covering them under their bodies?
I never knew that roaches can do such a thing...

After a while they kinda looked cute,
Now, i understand why people can have roaches as pets.
After all that fiasco, off course my veiled never develop any likings to dubia. So, I have to give my colony to someone else.

 

[RachelRiot]

I have tried and tried to breed crix. They hate me and refuse to lay eggs that actually hatch I think. lol Seriously though, I followed what all the articles online said and I had eggs in a container of organic soil, I kept them warm and did everything they said and 6 weeks later they still hadnt hatched. I tossed it in the trash and just kept the breeding bins for my crix.

 

[BIGGUN]

Keep the egg containers moist if they dry out once they'll die. Then when the babies hatch the moisture will accumulate on the bottom and drown your babies They are a pain!!!!!

Kevin