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Originally Posted by poison123
It took flight from a 3ft cage and kept flight for a while. It did this more then once. But yeah I think they need to be up high to get a good start.
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That is fascinating. Has anyone else ever seen this? I have witnessed males with good long running starts falling off of high branches etc and have never seen anything even close to an attempt to fly.
Guys, you started a good thread, don't derail it by engaging korbin in one of his pissing contests.
I have only been keeping dubia for one and a half years, and would love more info, especially on accelerating breeding. This is what I have learned and what has been working for me.
Temps in the 80's slows breeding
Temps in the 90's greatly increases breeding.
I have read, tried, and swear by the fact that oranges combined with appropriate temps makes the dubia breed more/faster.
It SEEMS (at least in my colonies) that each female can put out approximately 30 young once every 30 days. I have nothing to confirm this at all except my own observations and would love to see if anyone else has charted info about this.
I strongly suggest segregating a small colony (2 males and 5 females or so) to monitor, experiment with, and to hedge your investment in the event you have a colony kill for some reason.
I put aspen shavings on the bottom for the babies to hide in.
Last point/question
I have heard of keepers that freeze their males to feed at later times and was considering this. Anybody here try this?
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