can crickets and dubia roaches live together

[jordanebert89]

i will be starting a dubia colony and i was just wondering if i will have to get a new bin or if i can just throw them in with my cricket bin.

 

[camimom]

I would do them seperatly. not sure if they can live together, but id be afraid of them eating each other.

 

[jordanebert89]

thanks

yeah i was thinking the same thing i thought i wiould just ask to see if any one has tried it.

 

[shiftyeyes]

i can tell you 100% they cannot live together the roaches need a high protein diet and they will use the crix for their protein. the crix will not harm the roaches (remember roaches can survive a nuclear blast) if you would like to kill off some crix then ya i say go for it, but no they cannot live together

 

[SSimsswiSS]

I actually keep a few adult dubias in my medium to large sized cricket bins. (helps me to remember the other food options, besides crickets.) But I keep the bulk of my dubias seperated in their own bin. The Dubias get fed more salad scraps than any of the other feeders kept, and are little compost makers.

 

[JonRich]

i can tell you 100% they cannot live together the roaches need a high protein diet and they will use the crix for their protein. the crix will not harm the roaches (remember roaches can survive a nuclear blast) if you would like to kill off some crix then ya i say go for it, but no they cannot live together

The black crickets will attack the Dubias, not sure about the brown ones (crickets are nasty). There was a thread where there was a pic of a cricket eating a Dubia, I'll have to find it. I don't think Dubias will kill the crickets, if they had this thirst for protein I'd think they would be cannibals also and eat their own young. I have not seen any signs of cannibalism in my colony.

 

[xanthoman]

jmo

as far as a breeding colony, i would say not the best arraingement, guaranteed adult cricks will eat the dubia eggs and young, and i would be suprized if adult dubia didnt eat the pinheads and small cricks. so even if you got the colony to sustain its self, i doubt production values would be very good.
whats the point anyway, all either needs is a $7 - 16 gal rubbermaid. jmo

 

[WANTING]

Um... And roaches aren't nasty

Honestly folks..I'm likely older than most of you... And having issues getting over my bug phobia. There aren't that many bugs in Co. But still wanting a Cham... But some of those roaches I lived with in FL COULD CARRY ME AWAY

 

[Elizadolots]

I grew up spending the summer in Louisiana....I know what you mean, Wanting. Those things are terrifying.

 

[EvilLost]

I didn't read this thread but just wanted to throw in my 2 cents....


you do not want to do this. crickets have an absurd die off rate and need to be cleaned all the time....roaches live for 2+ years and never die, you can get away with cleaning the roach bin much less often than cricket bins (I clean out my cricket bin ~2weeks and my roach bin about ~2months)


crickets eat all sorts of crap too, brown ones are nicer, but stlil

 

[jordanebert89]

thanks to everyone

i will have a new bin in a hour. thanks a gain for the help so i didnt kill off all my feeders.

 

[Btrainreptilekeeper]

Yall crazy i live in fl seen some ones about 5 in tops maybe a little smaller lol and dubai roaches are small don't even get that big

 

[AmandaS]

Yall crazy i live in fl seen some ones about 5 in tops maybe a little smaller lol and dubai roaches are small don't even get that big

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