Keeping Crickets

[mld]

here is a link to breeding Dubia's!
Dubia roach: Care, Breeding and Feeding

Depending on what your feeding would depend on what you want to feed your beetles.
I feed a bearded dragon and a tarantula therefore I use a high protein feed.
I also use veggies.

[Sapphyr]

Originally Posted by Lankyrob

Also Dubia roaches are silent, dont climb at all well (except on cardboard), dont fly, and need the heat to survive. Should you get an escapee they wont last long unless your house provides the perfect environment for them.

Then my room would do just fine, LOL. I keep my room around 63 - 70F. My mother's room would be a nightmare, though. She keeps it between 80 - 90F+

Anyways, I'll be sure to consider roaches then. It's good that they don't climb well. Was afraid if I -did- breed them, they'd skitter out of the container when I opened it to get some for feeding or just to feed them.

[mld]

Here is a picture of the inside of my feeder beetle container.

On the left is where they hang out and on the right top corner is were there food is kept. On the bottom in the ice-cream container is the water with mesh over it, it just there to give some humidity to help with shedding, they can't get in that.

The food that is in their today is the ground up mix that I make and rabbit alfalfa blocks, looks like the carrots are gone already. I am using the water gel in there, I just buy the dry and rehydrate it myself, much cheaper.

[infernalis]

My roaches have never escaped, and I have had them for 3 years.

People will give you mushy fruit for free, I feed my roaches produce that is starting to turn bad. A bruised apple will get eaten fast. Brown bananas are a favourite as is mango.

The nice thing about juicy fruits, all the water you need is in the flesh of the fruit.

Cut up a tomato or squash that is starting to turn soft, Cucumbers also.

Peelings when you are cooking are always free, just put them in the roach box instead of the trash.

In a couple days, pick out what is left, or you will have mold and fruit flies.

[Sapphyr]

Ha, I already got a bad fruit fly/gnat issue... Trying my best to get rid of them without spraying. -_-; I think it's my blasted carpet attracting them. It reeks of doggie waste, even treating it with a carpet cleaning doesn't work. Thankfully, I'm having my carpet replaced with linoleum next week. Gonna do a real good cleaning, get rid of anything that would attract them. Hopefully whatever ones are left will leave my room on account of a lack of food/water. Only issue is.. they especially love my ferrets... Maybe I should temporarily move them into the other room..

At any rate.. I'm guessing me and roaches have one thing in common.. Mangos <3

And you give a very good point, Wayne. I think this would get my mother to approve of them.~ Just have a large container full of roaches as a waste/recycling bin.~