Orange Heads

[insectovore]

Kritters for Christ seems to have a decent deal of adult Orange Heads so I picked up 24 females and several males. I have not tried these before but I saw some references stating they breed slightly faster than dubia and since my poor dubia colony cannot keep up I figured I'd give these a try as a test run. If anyone on here is breeding these just curious how they've done for you as far as production goes? The species I am interested in feeding already take large dubia nymphs out of cups so I am not expecting too many feeding response issues. I plan to let most of the first new batches of babies grow up but I'll try to feed off a few to make sure everyone eats them once they get large enough.

 

[jamest0o0]

I primarily use orangeheads and have a ton of success breeding them. I prefer them to dubia. I have like 9 species of roach. Only ones that are for some reason taking a long time to reproduce are my yellow gyna lurida and discoids.

 

[insectovore]

Just curious what you feed the orange heads?

 

[jamest0o0]

Pretty much same thing as dubia. They gutload well on most things, they do prefer certain foods more or less than dubias, but can't remember what it was.i feed my main colony carrots and oranges 99% of the time. And then my feeders get a large gutload mix.

 

[NickTide]

My orange head colony started like a year ago with August a few nymphs. They seem to take longer to get from nymph to adult but they are bigger 100 o.h. weigh significantly more than 100 dubia. O.h. May even live longer being larger.

I'm estimating they take longer to get going but about the same but probably less in numbers. If o.h. We're as pridproduc, more people would be selling them in mass like dubias. People with chams and larger lizards would love to have them so something makes them cost prohibitive.

 

[jamest0o0]

I really havent experienced any slower reproduction in orange heads. If anything they seemed faster. I think dubias just have more of a mainstream popularity and are the first roach people hear about. They're also slower and not as intimidating for people that are afraid of roaches(when I first got orangeheads awhile back, I thought I made a terrible mistake... they were creepy...). Dubias are a little more hardy too. I've witnessed them survive intense temp swings just fine while my OH colony got wiped out.