Petco down the street is charging five bucks a roach , except they sell them in pairs so it's ten bucks . It would be cheaper to feed my Ts steak !
None of the PetCos around here sell roaches. I have to go to a reptile specialty store to find them. They're very similar to dubia, but they're not, because they're illegal in my state. They're nymphs too, which means they're like appetizers to my A. seemanni.
Believe me when I say they aren't charging me that because there is no way I'm paying that five bucks for a roach . They call the "jungle roaches" and they come in a prepackaged cup .
This is where you're wrong. Many of mine won't eat roaches. My miranda won't even touch anything else than crickets, same goes for my rufilata, metallica etc. They DO have a preference for foodTarantulas don't generally have prefered foods. In the wild they will tackle any prey they see fit as food isn't readily available. Although saying that, I own a B. Auratum that will eat only brown crickets and not black ones. I guess it has adjusted to its regular feeding times and just like me, is a rather picky eater
Couldn't agree more.This is where you're wrong. Many of mine won't eat roaches. My miranda won't even touch anything else than crickets, same goes for my rufilata, metallica etc. They DO have a preference for food
i Really Do.Clearly you need more Ts then.
Great info! I have only cultured a small colonies mealworms once before (starting up again now) and had left all stages together. What is the advantage of finding the pupae and moving them to a separate container? Do the larva endanger them?honestly, its so easy to breed your own. buy some meal worms and put them in an enclosure similar to a large exo terra breeding box (i like these as they have a removable divider. i keep the meal worm beetles in one side and the worms themselves in the other). give them a substrate of porridge oats (oatmeal) and feed them the off cuts of any fruit and veg you eat. IM not sure if they eat things like onions, but lettuce, cabbage, carrots, raw potato, and apple are all good.
the oatmeal not only provides an ideal substrate for the beetles to lay eggs but its also food for them and the young worms. they get water from the fruit and veg you give them.
move the pupa to a separate container until they emerge as beetles, then reintroduce them to main breeding box and repeat the cycle. there is literally nothing else to it
there are more efficient ways of doing it, and it'll take a few months until you see any adult worms but as i said, im over run with them now.
breed your own and you get 1000+ for 0.00
Each owner has their own experience I guess. I have never tried my Ts on roaches, only crickets, locusts and worms. The only one of mine that has ever been a food buff with them is the B. Auratum when it came to what type of cricket she prefered.This is where you're wrong. Many of mine won't eat roaches. My miranda won't even touch anything else than crickets, same goes for my rufilata, metallica etc. They DO have a preference for food
and those are choosy as hell with roaches, B.dubia especially. Not the rule of course, but as i've said (and i will continue to say) i have never saw in 25 years of T's, an hungry Theraphosidae refuse a cricket
When it comes to feeders, i/we can't count on LPS or pet shops, because (not a bad thing btw) they don't sell those. Actually they never.
I'm sorry KezyGLA, really, wish to be of help, but they do not ship outside of Italy... there's too much strict rules here within the boot in that issue/s, go figure to think to ship outside our borders (where, in that sense, IMO things are definitely better).
What do you mean they are choosy as hell, with B. dubia especially? You mean they don't like them in general? Mine used to love them, but now she won't look at themThere's a breeder here in Italy of 'Pokies', mostly P.metallica