When Cleaning your Roach Tub

[chydro]

nice and out of all those babies how many do ur animals really eat a week?

[infernalis]

Don't even count them.. Right now, I had to back off on the roaches with Chomper, because one of the egg cartons got moldy underneath with black mold, and a huge chunk of the colony died off.

[chydro]

lol bet you feel like ur playing civilization lol

[infernalis]

More like zoo keeper.. so many critters.

[presspirate]

Originally Posted by infernalis

I fixed your post Greg, the way you worded that last question it asked if YOU ate the feces.

You are correct, the babies eat the adults poo when they are young.

Thanks Wayne, I had a good laugh at myself over that. What is YOUR procedure when you clean your roach enclosure?

[infernalis]

I started over with a new tote (they are cheap) and prepared it, then just moved all the roaches and some poop from the old to the new, then I dumped out the old one in my compost pile.

Now I use the old one to shovel my rat cages into when I clean them.

[Lankyrob]

Originally Posted by chydro

oh they are for lizards, thats pretty neat, does it save alot to grow your own?

We ahve two small lizards, we were spending about $30 a week on crickets/locusts etc - now we feed off the roaches and spend maybe $10 a month on "extras" to give the lizards variety. As wayne said feeding the roaches is pretty much free - peelings that would be put in the bin - roaches eat - fruit on the "turn" that would go in the bin - roaches eat - its the circle of life Simba!!

[shaunyboy]

Originally Posted by chydro

oh ok its its aquarium, its tank, i get it.

they're not aquariums mate

viv's (vivariums) come in flat packs and you build them yourself

the wood is melanine and they have sliding glass doors heres a picture of some of my viv's there's three 2x2x2ft,three 4x2x2ft and one 3x2x2ft viv's in this picture and a faunarium tub next to my kids pictures


the semi circled thing you see on my wall at the middle top of the picture is a smoke alarm imo a must for everyone keeping a lot of electrics running on their tanks...!!

cheers shaun