This happened today (feeders)
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MissSkittles
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Might want to try breeding roaches...much cleaner and more nutritious.
mujino
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Haha I am!!! Both dubia and discoid. He won’t touch ‘em unless I bait and switch an isopod, and even then sometimes he poofs up and turns black at them. Only time I’ve ever seen him that upset.
That’s the food strike that won him the crickets
mujino
Established Member
Lol!
Holy Dubia!!!! That’s a lot and I straight got creeped out with how many that is? but my cham loves them damn dubias and I would love to learn to breed them if you could help... lol
RyanBRZ
Avid Member
Yeah, it's way too many for a single chameleon, I am looking to sell some. This colony has been going since November 2018 and my chameleon has been on a dubia hiatus since pretty much November 2018..he only recently started eating them regularly again. I removed the heat from them so they don't continue to breed, or at least slow down.
Klyde O'Scope
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RescueMom
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In Florida the roaches don't need help breeding, they do just fine on their own ?
Klyde O'Scope
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So well that dubias & some others are illegal there.
RescueMom
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I know ? if you had told me years ago I'd ever WANT roaches, I would have called you insane. You'd a thunk it ?
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
So said we all before being bit by the reptile bug. ?
RescueMom
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In my defense (if I actually need a defense ?) I still won't touch roaches ? I draw the line there!
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
Again, So said we all before being bit by the reptile bug. ?
Wait 'til one drops where it shouldn't, scoots, and you have no choice...
It's really not that bad. Just do it and don't think about it. Like changing a diaper.
NashansCamos
Chameleon Enthusiast
Hooooo boy i'm getting flashbacks of the scary time I dropped one IN FRONT OF MY PARENTS!! it scurried away and hid before i could get it. My parents almost made me kill the whole colony lol.Wait 'til one drops where it shouldn't, scoots, and you have no choice...
RescueMom
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I definitely would, in what I'd consider a strictly emergency situation, pick one up and throw it back in its container. Then I'd go get my inhaler and rest until I wasn't tachicardic anymore ?Again, So said we all before being bit by the reptile bug. ?
Wait 'til one drops where it shouldn't, scoots, and you have no choice...
It's really not that bad. Just do it and don't think about it. Like changing a diaper.
RescueMom
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Oh no no no no no! I can deal with escaped crickets, but not that! Never never never!
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
Everybody's different, but I find dubias far less objectionable to grab & replace than crickets.
(Crickets always seemed to buzz in my fingers, and that creeped me out.)
TBH, the first time I saw dubias, I thought they looked more like roly-polies (wood lice, isopods) than roaches (the nymphs, anyway—hadn't seen adults until much later), and I've handled those since I was a tyke. They're under every rock & log in the yard. Never heard of them used as feeders though...
RescueMom
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Everybody's different, but I find dubias far less objectionable to grab & replace than crickets.
(Crickets always seemed to buzz in my fingers, and that creeped me out.)
TBH, the first time I saw dubias, I thought they looked more like roly-polies (wood lice, isopods) than roaches (the nymphs, anyway—hadn't seen adults until much later), and I've handled those since I was a tyke. They're under every rock & log in the yard. Never heard of them used as feeders though...
I guess I can't speak with any authority about them, since I've never actually seen the "illegal" dubia roach here in Florida. I will say that if you've ever seen the giant WINGED discoid roach and THAT doesn't absolutely freak you out, then you must need your head examined ?
