If I could find roaches here in Florida to buy to set up a colony, I would. It seems a lot of people can't ship into Florida, I guess we have enough bugs.
I feed the crickets, and I HATE them, but for a wholey different reason. I hate the chirping. Crickets are native here, and very populous and I hated them chirping outside my open bedroom window whileI tried to sleep. It carried over, I still hate the chirping. If I get 3/4 crickets, they don't seem to chirp however, so I have a happy medium. Too bad there isn't a size that would make them not icky for you.
I just discovered that if you keep sealing the crickets into a rubbermaid tote, they die. So I am using a different tote with a screen lid for the next box.
I was buying a box of 1000, and they would only last a week, since by the end of a week they would all be dead. However, the few that Moggie the monitor DIDN'T eat, have BRED in her cage, and there are teeny crickets in there. Any way for me to get them out? They crawl all over her. Will they climb into a tube too?
I am SOOOO getting a tube also, since getting the crickets OUT of the tub usually sets a half dozen loose in the house.
Wolfy