I'm getting close to getting my veiled soon. He'll be about 3 months old. I have about a year old roach colony that is just excessively overpopulated now. I have thousands of adults and it's starting to stink, so I think I'll need to sell some. I guess I'm just wondering how many breeders/feeders I should keep. My adult beardie and leopard gecko are barely eating much now anyways, so it would mostly just be the new cham. And I understand numbers of roaches per day can vary greatly by the size you're feeding.. Just some rough estimates would be appreciated.
How much will a baby veiled REAlly eat?
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CJ's Exotics
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Depends on what you would consider "large", "medium", and "small". What type of roach is your colony? This also depends.
nightanole
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Well they will be doubling in body weight every 6-8 weeks. Its not uncommon to buy small crickets, and 6 weeks later have large crickets, and the cham growing with the crickets.
This is with a medical scale accurate to 10mg:
adult cricket = .25g
male adult dubia = 1.50g
female adult dubia = 3.00g
adult superworm = .50g
Going by that, if my normal rate is 2 dozen crickets, thats 3 adult male dubia by nutrition content.
1" dubia nymph but it was 1.25g
between 1/2" and 5/8" where .22g each.
Also remember that dubia have double the protein content of crickets, and do not have as much moisture content as crickets.
This is with a medical scale accurate to 10mg:
adult cricket = .25g
male adult dubia = 1.50g
female adult dubia = 3.00g
adult superworm = .50g
Going by that, if my normal rate is 2 dozen crickets, thats 3 adult male dubia by nutrition content.
1" dubia nymph but it was 1.25g
between 1/2" and 5/8" where .22g each.
Also remember that dubia have double the protein content of crickets, and do not have as much moisture content as crickets.
This might help you...
http://www.chameleonnews.com/02MarDonoghue.html
http://www.chameleonnews.com/02MarDonoghue.html
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