Dubia babies!
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I will count them tonight, but it looked like a pretty good number of the little boogers. My colony is finally gonna take off.
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Your lucky. I've had my Discoids for like 6 months. I have a whole 4 babies.
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What type enclosure do you have them in? ive found that the nymphs can climb the walls of most of my rubbermaids, i put a line of smooth shipping tape above the top of the egg crates, less than 2 weeks later i had somewhere in the neighboorhood of 60-70 babies.. they also seem to be more temperature sensitive than orangeheads.. my orangeheads will breed at 60 degrees.. the discoids need at least 70-75 degrees to really take off, i keep mine in the high 80's to the mid 90's, or have been for the last couple weeks and they are really taking off..juggalo69 said:
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They are in a plastic storage container with some aspen wood substrate kept at about 90 degrees. I've been feeding them cucumber, apple, banana, and a protein mix my local petstore makes.
So your telling me I have discoid babies running around my house loose?
I haven't heard of discoids being able to climb rubbermade containers, but if the surface is rough enough, the little guys would be able to climb it. Do you monitor your humidity? I keep my humidity levels between 60-80%. Your temps and diet sound right. I actually feed mine fish food with the occasional apple, orange, and pancake thrown in.juggalo69 said:
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No, right now I have it bone dry. The red heat light I use makes the apples I feed them into apple chips in like two days if I don't change them out. What would be a good way to up the humidity with the aspen wood shavings I've got them in?
Humidity
I use a deli container filled with water. Drill or burn lots of holes in the top and place it in the bottom of the enclosure. Mine is placed in an area where it is partially heated from underneath by a heating pad. This keeps the humidity way up in the rubbermade container.
Your problem is definitely the humidity, you got to increase it above 60%. There are lots of ways you could do it, start by spraying your eggcrates every day or two. And get a humidity gauge.
I use a deli container filled with water. Drill or burn lots of holes in the top and place it in the bottom of the enclosure. Mine is placed in an area where it is partially heated from underneath by a heating pad. This keeps the humidity way up in the rubbermade container.
Your problem is definitely the humidity, you got to increase it above 60%. There are lots of ways you could do it, start by spraying your eggcrates every day or two. And get a humidity gauge.
Well I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one off to a slow start. I was beginining to think I was doing something wrong. I've had mature females for over 2 months and just started getting babies. I've read that they start having babies after 45 days if kept really warm but for me it was closer to the 2 month mark. Mine are kept in the high 80's with a hot spot in the 90's. I've got about 40 females and only had a couple of batches of babies so far.
I've read that they won't breed it they are disturbed too much. I try to leave mine alone and am not finding aborted egg-cases so I'm wondering why I'm not getting more babies:wall: .
For humidity I spray mine abit but for my lateralis I've also filled a container with damp/wet peatmoss or coco and hot glued some window screening on top so that they can't climb in. This way they get constant humidity that I only have to re-wet once a week or so. I put the egg-cases on top so they are assured of humidity they may need for development and hatching.
As for rubbermaids I've read that they can climb the opaque ones because they are a little rough. Can they also climb the smoother clear ones?
I've read that they won't breed it they are disturbed too much. I try to leave mine alone and am not finding aborted egg-cases so I'm wondering why I'm not getting more babies:wall: .
For humidity I spray mine abit but for my lateralis I've also filled a container with damp/wet peatmoss or coco and hot glued some window screening on top so that they can't climb in. This way they get constant humidity that I only have to re-wet once a week or so. I put the egg-cases on top so they are assured of humidity they may need for development and hatching.
As for rubbermaids I've read that they can climb the opaque ones because they are a little rough. Can they also climb the smoother clear ones?
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I know the adults can't, I've watched them try. I don't think the babies can but I have never seen them try.
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I keep mine on no substrate.. the babies tend to burrow, did you check the aspen really good? and if there are loose ones, they will die in a few days, so nothing to worry about. aside from dead discoids outside of the container..juggalo69 said: