First Time Dubia Breeding

[GregJD]

Howdy!

My wife and I are tired of crickets. The smell and the gnats are too much for us. She, and most of her family, have a roach phobia, whatever it's name is. She was okay with GBR's (which we lovingly call Green Banana Bugs) because they are colorful, but the whole breeding process didn't go anywhere. I feel like I followed the rules, but apparently I missed something.

I have finally convinced her to go with Dubia Roaches (which we lovingly call Dubies). I fed off the GBR's and for now, I put the biggest Dubies I had in their breeding bin.

Some questions: Is it okay to keep them in there with the GBR set up? How about the beetle culture? I have a heat pad underneath, should I keep spraying regularly or do something else for water?

One last question: neither of my panthers like Dubies, they are hooked on crickets. I left some in a cup for them, but a couple nights later, they were still there, so I put crickets back in. The actual question: Am I going to lose that one and always need crickets?

Thanks for the help!

Greg

 

[jamest0o0]

I don't use crickets at all, but I have a bunch of roaches I keep in the basement. My suggestion would be if you can only have 1 roach species, get orangeheads. Chams are much more likely to eat them, even out of the cups. The only way to get my chams to touch Dubia is by starving them or sneaking them in their mouth while eating something else. Overall, I have more success putting roaches on a branch in front of them than putting them in the cup. I don't think I've ever seen my chams eat a Dubia out of the cup lol.

 

[jamest0o0]

I doubt the banana roaches will breed with other roaches in there. If you don't care about them breeding then I'm sure it'd be fine.

 

[GregJD]

Thanks!

Yeah, I gave up on the Bananas. I fed off the ones I could find. They ate them quick. I just chunked the big dubias in their bin.

 

[CamrynTheCham22]

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[NickTide]

Dubias are a lot easier without substrate. Bare bottom with a heat pad with some egg crate and TP or paper towel tubes. I use fresh veggies like carrots to supply the water and I feed whatever... carrots and a lot of scraps. I use rabbit food for the alfalfa case.

Plus one on the orange heads. raise them the same way. They smell but are more active and brightly colored than dubias.

That cham may starve its self to death before eating dubias. Try getting it off of crickets with some black soldier flies. let the larvae pupate if need be.