Roach question
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Brad Ramsey
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I would start with more.
It will take awhile for anything to happen and the fewer adults you start with, the longer you're going to wait.
50 would be better....100 would be fantastic!
Try to get as many females as you can to begin with....you only need a few males (like chickens).
If in 6 months or a year you find you are over-run with roaches you can always sell them and make a decent amount of money considering your investment.
They are easy to keep, and 1000 need about as much room as 100 and they don't stink!
-Brad
It will take awhile for anything to happen and the fewer adults you start with, the longer you're going to wait.
50 would be better....100 would be fantastic!
Try to get as many females as you can to begin with....you only need a few males (like chickens).
If in 6 months or a year you find you are over-run with roaches you can always sell them and make a decent amount of money considering your investment.
They are easy to keep, and 1000 need about as much room as 100 and they don't stink!
-Brad
Brad Ramsey
Retired Moderator
Enough humidity will occur with the water source.
clear water crystals are my favorite but I have also used damp balled up paper towel (this needs to be changed a couple times a week).
cereal (total, honey bunches of oats, corn flakes), raw squashes, sweet potato, carrots and apple are all good.
Keep a heating pad on the lowest setting under one side of the tub....they breed much better if their temps are in the 80's to 90.
Ventilation is VERY important as well....have a cut-out with screen at least on the top..even better to have one on one side and the top.
Don't allow any mold to grow....EVER! That will kill off your colony faster than anything, proper ventilation really helps deter the mold.
-Brad
clear water crystals are my favorite but I have also used damp balled up paper towel (this needs to be changed a couple times a week).
cereal (total, honey bunches of oats, corn flakes), raw squashes, sweet potato, carrots and apple are all good.
Keep a heating pad on the lowest setting under one side of the tub....they breed much better if their temps are in the 80's to 90.
Ventilation is VERY important as well....have a cut-out with screen at least on the top..even better to have one on one side and the top.
Don't allow any mold to grow....EVER! That will kill off your colony faster than anything, proper ventilation really helps deter the mold.
-Brad
Ren
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Guess how i woke up this morning? My wife coming in telling me to " GET IT OUT OF THE SINK!!!" I go in all foggy like and BAM there is a huge female dubia chillin in the dag-on sink... I dont know how she got out or when, now i am uber paranoid there are more? should i do anything should i be concerned?I am allmost to the point of starting to feed from my colony.. But just wondering how many more if any and or babies are cruising around my house.....
Vibrant Chameleons
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Guess how i woke up this morning? My wife coming in telling me to " GET IT OUT OF THE SINK!!!" I go in all foggy like and BAM there is a huge female dubia chillin in the dag-on sink... I dont know how she got out or when, now i am uber paranoid there are more? should i do anything should i be concerned?I am allmost to the point of starting to feed from my colony.. But just wondering how many more if any and or babies are cruising around my house.....
I had replied to your "Cold Weather Dubia" thread stating there would be no way I'd keep them in the house for this reason. It was a female that you found, so hopefully she didn't lay anywhere...Good luck with the wife lol
Vegas Chad
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Guess how i woke up this morning? My wife coming in telling me to " GET IT OUT OF THE SINK!!!" I go in all foggy like and BAM there is a huge female dubia chillin in the dag-on sink... I dont know how she got out or when, now i am uber paranoid there are more? should i do anything should i be concerned?I am allmost to the point of starting to feed from my colony.. But just wondering how many more if any and or babies are cruising around my house.....
Oh man... LoL... If that would have happened with me my girl with have just smothered me with a pillow, collected the insurance and got a new house!
Brad Ramsey
Retired Moderator
Don't worry.
These cannot survive for long outside of the environment you create for them....or really in houses at all.
It's interesting that a female escaped. Usually they stay put.
Chances are it's an isolated occurrance, but you may want to double check the security of your roach enclosure.
Have you fed any nymphs off? Is there a chance this was one of those that didn't get eaten and molted into an adult and escaped from the cham enclosure?
-Brad
These cannot survive for long outside of the environment you create for them....or really in houses at all.
It's interesting that a female escaped. Usually they stay put.
Chances are it's an isolated occurrance, but you may want to double check the security of your roach enclosure.
Have you fed any nymphs off? Is there a chance this was one of those that didn't get eaten and molted into an adult and escaped from the cham enclosure?
-Brad
Ren
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Thats what i am thinking as well, I was feeding some baby nymphs to the hatchlings and I saw a roach go across the table and grabbed it, must have been another one.... that was about 2 weeks ago i think...
PardalisGirl
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Too Funny
That's too funny Ren! My husband seems to be used to seeing crickets here and there in the house but I think a roach would totally freak him out. My two roach colonies have been in the house for years but they are non-climbing E. Prosticus and E. Distanti. They can't climb out of a two inch bowl. They don't meet most people's needs since they have a long maturation time. It took me two years to build groups I can feed out regularily. You are lucky it was not visiting friends or relatives that found that roach! I had a friend staying here over a weekend (not a lizard friend) and she was reading a book in bed at night and looked up to see a cricket on her headboard. That freaked her out.........I can imagine a roach.
That's too funny Ren! My husband seems to be used to seeing crickets here and there in the house but I think a roach would totally freak him out. My two roach colonies have been in the house for years but they are non-climbing E. Prosticus and E. Distanti. They can't climb out of a two inch bowl. They don't meet most people's needs since they have a long maturation time. It took me two years to build groups I can feed out regularily. You are lucky it was not visiting friends or relatives that found that roach! I had a friend staying here over a weekend (not a lizard friend) and she was reading a book in bed at night and looked up to see a cricket on her headboard. That freaked her out.........I can imagine a roach.
Jeweledchameleons
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As I've been telling people...
They're "Hawaiian papaya flowers beetles" not "roaches"
you'll be amazed what a difference that makes in some peoples minds.
great story....
Just be happy that she didn't' see a male dubia flying around the house
They're "Hawaiian papaya flowers beetles" not "roaches"
you'll be amazed what a difference that makes in some peoples minds.
great story....
Just be happy that she didn't' see a male dubia flying around the house
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