Dubia Roaches

[Mushy]

Hello, I picked up two adult dubia's last night in hopes to get a roach colony up and going for my cham in the near future, does anybody have some recommendations as to what is good to gut-load these roaches w? thank you in advance

 

[Flick boy]

Gutload for feeding or breeding??

 

[Ramrod]

Hello, I picked up two adult dubia's last night in hopes to get a roach colony up and going for my cham in the near future, does anybody have some recommendations as to what is good to gut-load these roaches w? thank you in advance

You may have a better chance of success if you had 3-4 females to each male.
Good luck

 

[Mrjamwin]

HI, there! You definitely going to need more females. Now my recommendation is 5 females to every one male. You're going to need a bin for them, egg crates or something similar so they can hide in and you'll need to keep the temperature up at 90 degrees all the time.

 

[Kaizen]

Hello, I picked up two adult dubia's last night in hopes to get a roach colony up and going for my cham in the near future, does anybody have some recommendations as to what is good to gut-load these roaches w? thank you in advance

Not to burst your bubble, but starting out with 2 is going to take some time.

 

[Flick boy]

I don't know what you have in the us but buy a box or whatever to feed your cham and sort it from there. Then sex them this is usually easy the males are larger sometimes arrogant drink too much beer and only interested in the football score

 

[Kaizen]

I don't know what you have in the us but buy a box or whatever to feed your cham and sort it from there. Then sex them this is usually easy the males are larger sometimes arrogant drink too much beer and only interested in the football score

Do you mean “football” or “soccer”? Just razzin’ ya’, mate!

 

[Flick boy]

I really don't know what you all do over there but that is your business lol

 

[Mushy]

Haha, I figured I would need more than just the two but they were the only two available roaches in the store at the time so I will definitely go and get more. Like @Flick boy mentioned, do i sex the roaches by the sizes, or are there visible differences on body parts between M/F?

 

[Kaizen]

I really don't know what you all do over there but that is your business lol

I’m in Canada, we use footballs to play soccer.

 

[Flick boy]

Do you not live in michagan

 

[Kaizen]

Do you not live in michagan

Now you’re razzin’ me! Love it!

 

[Kaizen]

Haha, I figured I would need more than just the two but they were the only two available roaches in the store at the time so I will definitely go and get more. Like @Flick boy mentioned, do i sex the roaches by the sizes, or are there visible differences on body parts between M/F?

Adult males have full wings, adult female don’t.

 

[Flick boy]

Lol I know you b in Canada. Now let's get this colony started

 

[Flick boy]

Adult males have full wings, adult female don’t.

Yeah I didn't know that until the other day until I opened my roach box and a big f$%#ker with wings but apparently they don't really fly much .

 

[FranklinTheCham]

I gut load all of my feeders a mix of mangos, sweet potatoes, blueberries, escarole leaves, and carrots. I like to vary what I gut load them since my chameleon will be eating them lol.