Feeder Roaches - Your Choice?!

[IguanaMama]

I feed only organic to my roaches. Every Thursday I go to the organic market and pick up organic fruits and vegetables for the roaches. My children have started to eat better since I've gotten roaches.

 

[cacoseraph]

make sure they are organic AND pesticide free, as i believe there are organic pesticides.. orange oil or diatomaceous earth or something

 

[mikeythefireman]

Grow your own green leafys. I just got my roaches, but they're eating alright already. They're gorging on post-juiced carrot, apple, pear, raspberry, etc. pulp. As well as whatever parts of the veggies that we're growing we don't eat. I got a bunch of cat food all ground up for them, but they seem to prefer the fresh fruits and veggies. I've had them for 5 days now, and I've refilled the fruits and veggies everyday and I haven't filled the cat food, yet.

 

[IguanaMama]

Grow your own green leafys.

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(If you saw where I live you'd know why I was laughing.)

 

[Vys]

I don't really know what the deal is with pesticide-laced fruits/ vegetables, to be honest. Maybe it is 'better safe than sorry', maybe some companies are worse than others when it comes to spraying their vegetables.

I buy mostly ecological (organic) when available (for me and the roaches), but that isn't always; and never have I seen mass death or even noticable death as a result from having fed them non-ecological rinsed fruits.

That said, I do not support buying non-eco things, generally, anyway.

 

[Stylopidae]

I've started to wet down my dog food for their wet food. They love it, and it works very well.

 

[Vys]

How do you keep wetted dog food from moulding?
I can't keep non-wetted hard cat food from moulding after a while, no matter what I do. Same with any sort of oatmeal.

Darn roaches that can't eat peppers

 

[musihuto]

roaches for scorpions

i've heard some scorpions can be picky with roaches... any accounts on which species they prefer? any differences between desert and arboreal species?
- munis

 

[Stylopidae]

How do you keep wetted dog food from moulding?
I can't keep non-wetted hard cat food from moulding after a while, no matter what I do. Same with any sort of oatmeal.

Darn roaches that can't eat peppers

I only use a little at a time...just enough so it dries out after a day or so. Then, I put the dried out crust that's left in the dry food dish and start over.

 

[mikeythefireman]

I'm glad that made you laugh. Now please share the punchline.:?

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(If you saw where I live you'd know why I was laughing.)

 

[Taceas]

Based on her living in New York, I'm assuming she thinks it would be impossible to grow salad greens?

If that's the case it couldn't be further from the truth. I grew some of my best salad in a window box this summer. Kept the slugs and snails out of it for once.


OR the fact of how you said it was kind of giggle inducing, I must say. =P

 

[IguanaMama]

Na, a window box wouldn't even work, I'm not allowed anything on the only window that has some sunlight and view of anything other than a brick wall 3 feet away because of the fire escape. If I wanted to grow anything I would need artificial grow lights, and I just don't have the space for it. Think of all the horrible things you've heard about NYC apartments and there you have it as my my last name isn't Trump. I would like to leave NY, but my DH wants to stay.