Feeding roaches

[Johnny_300]

Is it true that for the bigger males, that you needa rip the back legs off or they will get stuck In your reptiles throat? Someone had told me this am was not sure.. Kinda worried me so I figured I'd ask around on here. Thank you

[OctagonGecko729]

Adult male roaches are pretty large, what are you feeding them to? We only feed excess adult males to our 3ft+ savannah monitor and have had no problems.

[Johnny_300]

For now I was gonna give em to my Beardie. I feel as if I have to many males in my colony

[MarkS]

I've fed many adult male roaches to bearded dragons and never had an issue, they usually chew the roaches up pretty good before swallowing. I know people will often advise you to pinch off the back legs on crickets (mainly just to slow them down and make them easier to catch) but this is the first time I've heard that for roaches.

[Johnny_300]

It was the first time I ever heard of somethin like that as well! Better to be safe than sorry ya know?

[MarkS]

It was the first time I ever heard of somethin like that as well! Better to be safe than sorry ya know?

Not necessarily. Rumors like this get started and get passed around enough and pretty soon people start accepting it as fact. Then the next thing you know a bunch if internet experts are ganging up on you saying what a horrible person you are for not clipping the back legs off of your roaches.

[Johnny_300]

So should I cut em off or no? I'm confused a little

[MarkS]

no don't bother, it sounds silly.

[Johnny_300]

Thank you!

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I feed my adult males to my BTS and a Pacman frog and never had any issues.