My Roach Setup

[Clear]

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

[Beardedragon]

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

[Clear]

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

[dsmalex97]

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!

[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
My colony has more than tripled in a month

[Clear]

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
My colony has more than tripled in a month

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.

[qiksilver]

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?

[Clear]

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?

[qiksilver]

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.

[Clear]

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.