Blaptica dubia food- Mixed or pure.?
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Now if I can get my tarantulas to eat them that would be great.
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I have a X. immanis that would NOT eat them. She went hungry for about 6 months before she would eat them. Shes my best dubia eater now!
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Head pinches and patience are the key.
Also, start them on smaller "cricket size or smaller" roaches until they get used to the new food. Nothing will put a tarantula off faster than expecting a cricket and getting an adult, winged sherman tank tossed at them
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I've found that chicken feed works great, but beware of grain mites! You can easily get a grain mite explosion and it is very annoying and not to mention disgusting. I've cut down on the chicken feed, (I use rural king layer feed) and I throw fish food in there occasionally, along with fruit and veggies out of my garden, which is pesticide free BTW . I've only been keeping dubia for a few months, I bought 105, now I probably have around 400.
When my colony got infested with grain mites I was ready to torch them, or feed them to the chickens, but I cleaned the container and rinsed the roaches off and have not had an outbreak since.
And yes, pinching the heads of them with tweezers works great when feeding them to tarantulas, and my geckos enjoy the nymphs as well.
Roaches are awesome!
. I've only been keeping dubia for a few months, I bought 105, now I probably have around 400. When my colony got infested with grain mites I was ready to torch them, or feed them to the chickens, but I cleaned the container and rinsed the roaches off and have not had an outbreak since.
And yes, pinching the heads of them with tweezers works great when feeding them to tarantulas, and my geckos enjoy the nymphs as well.
Roaches are awesome!
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I'm from the philippines and
i give mine a variety of cheap stuffs
for protein source i used non medicated high proteine chicken/hog pellets, although chicken pellets smells less = costs 50 cents (usd) per kilo
I live near a local bakeshop and I collect those bread that are hanging for a while, the one that are already too stiff to eat but doesn't have molds on it = costs free
my mom loves fruits so every time she goes to the local market she asks for those fruits that is close to being rotten, the one that the store owner wouldn't sell, believe me roaches loves this i have dubias, lateralis, lobsters and hissers and they all love this it usually consumed within 6 hrs so the fruits doesn't have a chance to rott i just remove the "very little" leftovers and best of all = costs free
a friend of mine told me that dubias breeds very fast when fed citrus fruits like oranges and he swears it works like magic, so i feed my dubias a local kind of orange like citrus fruit called "dalandan" (http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/dalandan) that is verry cheap, at this time of the year these fruits are like $1 per 4-5 kilos on some cheap markets so i give my dubia colony one fruit a day and i've seen some pretty good results. . . = costs $1 per 4-5 kilos in some cheap markets
i give mine a variety of cheap stuffs
for protein source i used non medicated high proteine chicken/hog pellets, although chicken pellets smells less = costs 50 cents (usd) per kilo
I live near a local bakeshop and I collect those bread that are hanging for a while, the one that are already too stiff to eat but doesn't have molds on it = costs free
my mom loves fruits so every time she goes to the local market she asks for those fruits that is close to being rotten, the one that the store owner wouldn't sell, believe me roaches loves this i have dubias, lateralis, lobsters and hissers and they all love this it usually consumed within 6 hrs so the fruits doesn't have a chance to rott i just remove the "very little" leftovers and best of all = costs free
a friend of mine told me that dubias breeds very fast when fed citrus fruits like oranges and he swears it works like magic, so i feed my dubias a local kind of orange like citrus fruit called "dalandan" (http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/dalandan) that is verry cheap, at this time of the year these fruits are like $1 per 4-5 kilos on some cheap markets so i give my dubia colony one fruit a day and i've seen some pretty good results. . . = costs $1 per 4-5 kilos in some cheap markets
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