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[Aerries]

I know nothing about them I started a thread months ago about discoids but are males and females mixed in together in a typical shipment? Wouldn’t mind getting a colony going.


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[Sauzo]

I know nothing about them I started a thread months ago about discoids but are males and females mixed in together in a typical shipment? Wouldn’t mind getting a colony going.


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I would imagine so. You can either buy a breeder set up which should come with some adult males and females and some nymphs of different ages or just buy a few hundred nymphs and let them grow. Route one will be a lot faster. Route two will take probably 6 months or longer depending how large of nymphs you start with.

I used to sell adult females for $1-2 each and males i would just throw in a bunch for free as i used to just dispose of them as you dont need many males for a colony as they will fight and just eat food and my beardie didnt like eating large roaches.

[tttaylorrr]

maaaaaan, you put my Discoid colonies to shame. i just have them in 2 large Kritter Keepers with paper towel substrate, a bunch of paper tubes and lil PVC tubes (and food+water obvs). i try to clean and refresh once a week.

my colony is full of adults and a few large babies; i really need to cull some at start over. i pulled an aggressive male out a week ago to cull, but of course haven't done it; i'm such a wuss, my biologist at work is gona have to do it.

i really need to get serious about their diet tho if i want to do more with them. i found the tiniest lil baby yesterday while cleaning their enclosures; i want him to grow and eat healthy!

EDIT: where did you get those egg crates?

[artgecko]

I look forward to seeing that bin in a year lol. I started with a tiny colony of dubias myself for Harley. After a couple years, i ended up with with a 4 foot rubbermaid tub full of roaches. I had to sell off thousands of them on my local FB reptile site. If you give them some heat, food and water, they breed like...well....roaches lol.

And when your colony gets huge, its incredible how fast they can polish off food. When my colony was unchecked and huge, they would polish off 4-5 apples in about 30 mins lol. You would literally see a wave of roaches pour out of the egg crates and wash over the food. It was something from a horror movie lol.
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LOL. Yes, this. My colony has been going for about 1.5 years now and I'm up to that 4' rubbermaid also. I'm at the point now where I have to downsize the colony... Maybe even sell off the whole thing. I've got maybe 2,000+ roaches in it now and all from about 50 mixed sized nymphs and 10 adults lol.

My family doesn't know about them either...yet... and I intend to keep it that way. I actually had to slow down the growth of my colony, so I took them off additional heat..They are in my reptile room at 75f and still manage to breed even at that temp, although slower. I feed mine organic chicken crumbles, water crystals and alternate with fresh bananas and oranges or other produce. I keep my feeders in a different bin and they get gut load and all veggies (no water crystals).

[Aerries]

I would imagine so. You can either buy a breeder set up which should come with some adult males and females and some nymphs of different ages or just buy a few hundred nymphs and let them grow. Route one will be a lot faster. Route two will take probably 6 months or longer depending how large of nymphs you start with.

I used to sell adult females for $1-2 each and males i would just throw in a bunch for free as i used to just dispose of them as you dont need many males for a colony as they will fight and just eat food and my beardie didnt like eating large roaches.

Our dragons go bonkers over these guys, they will raze their enclosure just to get to it lol


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[Sonny1318]

Yeah, I'm deathly afraid of spiders and scorpions creep me out , too I've tried to get over that fear and planned on getting a Tarantula once. So I forced myself to research them. The whole time I felt sick just looking at the videos and pictures. I just couldn't do it.. But perhaps one day

A bunch of crickets chirping nonstop is not bad and kind of soothing, but back when I had a Bearded Dragon I had the odd cricket get loose in the house. When it is just a single one that decides to chirp here and there, it is VERY annoying. Esp. if you can't find it, LOL!!

I agree about the noisy lone wolf cricket driving you crazy, but I think you’d probably like the emperor scorpions. I truly did, they weren’t aggressive at all. With spiders I kept Rose hairs and Pink toes, and a couple of other of the less agggressive species.

[zina10]

Lol yeah. Oranges are like crack and viagra rolled into one for roaches. I kind of quit feeding it to them and the breeding slowed down but when i wanted to power breed them, i would slice up 2-3 oranges and oh boy, you would hear the skittering and the males fluttering bouncing off the lid of the tub all night long haha. Then in the morning, i would look inside the tub and you would see males and females connected butt to butt sitting on egg crates. The best is when you see that, just touch them, the both try and run forward but are connected so they dont know what way to go lol.

Yeah, ok, that is just really quite gross, LOL !!!

[zina10]

Me too. I get the heebie jeebies when i look at spiders espcially big ones like tarantulas or bird eater. I saw one on FB and so i wanted to learn more. I googled them and read about them and then i made the mistake of looking at the pics and videos on goggle and oh man, i kept feeling like something was crawling up my legs haha. Scorpions arent too bad but i wouldnt want one in my house.

And you are braver than me saying 'perhaps one day'. For me, there is no way on gods green earth a big spider is going to be living in my house. I literally would not be able to sit around or sleep lol.

Yeah, when I say "one day", it means most likely never.

Every so often I see a post about a spider and read it, and people seem so attached. It makes me think maybe I can do it. But I can't.
Its funny at the horse barn. Whenever people see a snake, they scream bloody murder and then holler for me to come and identify or remove it.

When I scream bloody murder everyone knows there must be a spider around. I have this weird thing, its like a toilet cleaner brush head only bigger, on a long stick. I mean long. You can extend that thing to 15 feet, LOL. That is what I use to clean cobwebs in the stall. Even then, the whole time I have the feeling of stuff crawling all over me. I want a hazmat suit for cleaning cobwebs. A bite proof one.

I was washing my horse once and felt something tickle the back of my shoulder. I kept waving my hand around, thinking its a fly. It kept tickling so I looked over my shoulder and a BIG FAT widow is sitting there. Those big round ones (females?). Oh yeah. I think THAT scream was probably heard throughout the hemisphere. I screamed and slapped at it after throwing the horse brush into blue yonder. My poor mare. Already quite sensitive, she got a heart attack, broke loose and ran away, thinking the world was coming to an end. The big fat spider fell on the ground and I stepped on it (sorry spider lovers, it was instinctual). The whole time I was shaking and feeling sick, thinking it must have bit me. But I guess it didn't. We have brown widows all over there, supposedly they are more venomous then the black ones, but less aggressive?

We also have huge spiders out there, fat and hairy, too, UGH.

Spiders! (shiver)

[zina10]

When I bread bearded dragons I started out with 150 mixed Dubias and one bin . Before I knew it I had wayyyyy too many to deal with . I had 4 huge ass bins full of them . Cleaning the bins became ridiculously hard to do . Got way to overwhelmed and just gave them away to a friend with a couple beardies ..... his problem now XD


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That is what I'm afraid of. But I don't know what to do with the ones to big for Smeagol. I literally don't. LOL. I don't really want to let them go. They are roaches. And..they don't belong here. I don't know anyone that could use them.

I could put them on craigslist to give away I guess. I duno.

I wouldn't mind a few breeding, but I can see that go a little crazy in no time. And I don't really want them in the house. Right now they are in the Garage, but soon it will get to hot in there. I guess I could put them on the open but covered back porch.

Sigh, how did all that happen, LOL, I didn't need more "pets".

[zina10]

I know nothing about them I started a thread months ago about discoids but are males and females mixed in together in a typical shipment? Wouldn’t mind getting a colony going.


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Yeah, I don't really know much about them, either. With the Dubias (I suppose its the same then with the discoids) you get a mixed lot when you get the small ones. Can't tell sex at that age? Once they get old enough you can tell and if there are to many males to females, you can get rid of some..

With Dubias, you can also buy adult females and males, but they are quite a bit more expensive then growing them up yourself. But you know what you have and they should breed right away.