My Roach Setup

I currently breed, dubia, discoids, fumigata, craniifer, hissers, lateralis. Heres a few pictures!

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Look great! I cant wait until my discoid is producing enough to feed my two little kids.

Discoids are slow breeders which sucks, but once they get going and your not feeding the adult females off they are great!

Hey I was looking to start a dubia colony because I plan on purchasing some monitors, and other lizard this summer. How many roaches can you house in those containers you use? And if I ordered 1000 of them, how long do you think it would take until I can start feeding out my colony? Thanks for your help!

very cool ;) thanks for sharing!
I tried my hand at discoids....got frustrated and fed them off.
Now I'm doing the lobster roaches with great success :D
My colony has more than tripled in a month :gj:

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Originally Posted by STORMS

very cool ;) thanks for sharing!
I tried my hand at discoids....got frustrated and fed them off.
Now I'm doing the lobster roaches with great success :D
My colony has more than tripled in a month :gj:

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Lobsters are great except they climb and stink, to much like crickets for me. I prefer the non climbing non flying species like lateralis. They do have a slight smell to them and they look like a common roach but they dont stink half as bad as lobsters do!

dsmalex97, I have 3k+ mix in one of my 45gallon blue containers with. Thats a mix of adults and nymphs. If you ordered 1000 mix dubia and let them grow up for 2 months and then give one more month for them to start producing you should be fine feeding off a few hundred per week. One adult female will have 20-30 babies per month. If you interested in getting some just shoot me a pm.

How are the fumigata? I'm thinking of picking up a bunch.

Also, how big are the nymphs, think they'd be small enough for Strophurus geckos?

Very slow breeders! They are about half the size of dubia, dubia nymphs are small also about 3/8". What size prey are you feeding now?

Thanks!
But damn, I had heard they bred similar to dubias.

1/4 inch crickets. Not worried about them now, the hatchlings would need something smaller than dubia tho, I had heard that fumigata was about half the size of dubia.

maybe my info is just all wrong.

They are half the size of dubia but they do breed slower than my dubia also. If you need something that small I would stick with lateralis and dubia.