The Doobie Brothers have nothing to do with Dubia Roaches...

[nachash]

non sequitur,

I just got 100 dubia roaches and I am starting my own breeding colony. Now some may say that 100 is too small to start from, but I disagree as I am an ambitious man. And like all ambitious men I am patient enough, like good ol' Brutus. I don't think genetic diversity should be an issue, but if it posses a challenge I'd pick up more males as needed.


I am just so excited to only need crickets...never. I mean, I am also starting a superworm colony, so with Superworms and Dubia as my staple I would plan on embellishing the arthropod smorgasbord with waxworms, mealworms, and yeah.....even crickets.

I will be feeding a leopard gecko, a crested gecko, an african sideneck turtle, and a metallic pinktoe. Who knows, if all goes well and I find myself with a crazy impossible surplus I can get a bearded dragon and still afford to feed myself.

[Capray]

Sounds fun! Good luck with your colony. Genetic diversity shouldn't be an issue, at least I don't think so.

[MarkS]

As long as you're not too anxious to start feeding. I've got a friend who started with new colonies of roaches several times before figuring them out. I finally sat her down and explained that it takes a whole 6 months for the roaches to reach adulthood and start breeding. She thought they 'bred like roaches' and was feeding the large ones to her monitors and the smaller ones to her bearded dragons and was wondering why her colonies kept dwindling down to nothing. Once I got her to stop feeding off the adult breeders she started doing much better.

[nachash]

I actually appreciate you telling me that. My leopard gecko already recognizes the smell they give off because he'll run out of his hides to check on me as I check on the roaches. I don't know who is more anxious for him to eat Prime South American Roach Steak, me or Jim.

I figure that once I get to around 6months like you said I'll have a reasonable turnover if I supplement with supers and crickets (ever after until never ever again)

But I can see why a herp would want a roach over a cricket. the roaches are soooooooo juicy looking.

[Mike41793]

I got mine from the China Grove whoaaaaaohhhh china grove