WHat does a Dubia Roach Colony eat?

[Fool]

I was looking at tiki tiki reptiles and I am considering making one just one thing what do these guys eat like what should I gut load them with?Crickets eat vegatables do these guys like vegatables?

 

[reptileman]

they will eat many different things, do plan on feeding this colony to chameleons or just getting it bigger for awhile. If you are going to feed out of it I recommend a dry cricket food, water crystals, oranges and carrots, and gutload with whatever you want.

If it is for breeding purposes of the roaches I would replace the cricket food with grinded up dog food because its cheaper and higher in protein and I believe it helps them breed faster(not good to have dog food in a roaches system and then feed to a chameleon though) Hope this helps

 

[Texas Ranger]

IMO. You can feed them anything you feed your crickets. They love fruits, I heard. Mine seem to love orange and green leafy lettace.

Hope this helps

 

[Jamelon]

ive fed my dubias carrots apples and pumpkin so far, will probably get some pumpkin seeds since its halloween soon since ive heard that they are good to feed them

 

[pssh]

I wouldn't use dog food at all. Bugs tend to be healthier the longer they are fed on good foods. (for the lizard anyways.)

I'm selling sexed starter colonies if you're interested. The largest ones are already turning into adults. Lots of females, and plenty of feeder males.

 

[Metric]

I wouldn't use dog food at all. Bugs tend to be healthier the longer they are fed on good foods. (for the lizard anyways.)

I'm selling sexed starter colonies if you're interested. The largest ones are already turning into adults. Lots of females, and plenty of feeder males.

Seek some of those into Canada for me please???? I hate our roach laws

 

[Fool]

I wouldn't use dog food at all. Bugs tend to be healthier the longer they are fed on good foods. (for the lizard anyways.)

I'm selling sexed starter colonies if you're interested. The largest ones are already turning into adults. Lots of females, and plenty of feeder males.

I think he means he uses the food to just breed them and feeds his feeder food a much healthier diet so he seprates them. Also pssh which would you consider easier roaches or crickets im thinking the roaches right? how much?

 

[ghettomike]

Seek some of those into Canada for me please???? I hate our roach laws

where in Canada are you? search around I'm sure you will find some

 

[Texas Panther Man]

Dubias are easier because. 1. they are live bearers 2. the smell issue 3. they eat almost anything 4. long life span
Crickets: 1. smell horribly 2. you have to incubate the eggs in a seperate container at about 95 deg 3. short life span 6-7 weeks 4. Not as good a feeder less calcium and rotein than a roach

Main prob is some chams just wont eat dubias. Buy a few and see if your cham will eat them before investing in a large colony.

 

[Olimpia]

Main prob is some chams just wont eat dubias. Buy a few and see if your cham will eat them before investing in a large colony.

Very true, see if you can get just a handful of them first and see if your guys like them.

I feed mine basically what I feed all my other bugs. I find that mine love alfalfa, mango (mango is like roach crack, but it's a little high in pho so it's not something I give them and then feed them to my chams), kale greens, apples, oranges, etc. They love sweet fruit in particular, I've found.

 

[camaleonverde]

roaches

It is something you have to know; for almost all tropical; roaches , tarantulas creepy tings, you have to have temperature at the cage at least at 80 degrees or 30 centigrade. 90 is common at the under ground, all this animal's stop reproducing, eating and moving if you don't go thigh to 85s. for all you in Florida is easy but at Cal. we go lows at 50 now.

 

[sandrachameleon]

THought I should mention that I've kept Hissers, Dubia and Turks at 70F (colder at night) and they do continue to eat, move, reproduce. They just dont reproduce as fast as if kept warmer.

Roaches seem to LOVE kelp powder, by the way.

 

[pssh]

I think he means he uses the food to just breed them and feeds his feeder food a much healthier diet so he seprates them. Also pssh which would you consider easier roaches or crickets im thinking the roaches right? how much?

I think roaches are easier. I know he meant he gutloads them first. I still don't feed any of my roaches any food I wouldn't gutload with.

I have an add in the chameleon food classifieds section. You can purchase some male feeders to see if your animal likes/will eat dubia. I find if you flip them onto their backs the chameleons are more receptive. My two wouldn't eat them at first, but now they eat them like candy. Especially the adult males.


My roaches breed in any weather I've put them in (low 60s even.) the dang Turks don't stop for anything! If I'm having an overflow problem with my Turks, a week without food or so starts to thin out the colony... Cannibals!

 

[JasonSinger]

How often do you clean it out with the fresh fruit in there? Do they just eat everything so its no clean up or is it something i need to pay a lot of attention to?

 

[pssh]

You'll notice how much your colony eats after a week or two. Don't let the fruit mold or anything though. They require very little cleaning after you've got the food down. Maybe clean the whole thing twice a year. The babies like to crawl around in the frass!