Roach and insect feed. roach buffett

[Matt K]

So if you are looking for an easy dry food, that is why I use fish pellets. I have chickens and buy crumbles for them, but the fish food is $12 for a 50 pound bag for my roaches.....though the chicken crumbles are probably pretty good as roach food too and cost me maybe $16 per 50 pound bag, so the cost is similar.

I know of someone in central america that raises snakes. He also raises rats/mice to feed them. He feeds the rodents something that can also be fed to chickens, and often has a lot of roaches in the rodent house (Pycnoscelus surinamensis and Periplaneta australasia - neither are native species)

 

[biomarine2000]

Does the fish product that you use make your roaches smell at all? I have lats and dubias and the smell is pretty low at the moment.

So if you are looking for an easy dry food, that is why I use fish pellets. I have chickens and buy crumbles for them, but the fish food is $12 for a 50 pound bag for my roaches.....though the chicken crumbles are probably pretty good as roach food too and cost me maybe $16 per 50 pound bag, so the cost is similar.

I know of someone in central america that raises snakes. He also raises rats/mice to feed them. He feeds the rodents something that can also be fed to chickens, and often has a lot of roaches in the rodent house (Pycnoscelus surinamensis and Periplaneta australasia - neither are native species)

 

[Matt K]

No... but I think lats are smelly no matter what they are fed....I hate that smell too, so I have tried alot of ways to avoid it and so far nothing... just now I have a substrate in there that has some activated charcoal mixed in and it seems to help a little..... of all my species the lateralis are actually the only ones that have a bad smell to them...

 

[B.L.]

Hello I am trying to raise feeder roaches also blaptica dubias.....can I feed Flukers high calcium cricket diet to them? I also add fruits and vegetables.

I keep theraphosa blondi's as well as a geckos monitors and african bullfrogs.

 

[biomarine2000]

Hello I am trying to raise feeder roaches also blaptica dubias.....can I feed Flukers high calcium cricket diet to them? I also add fruits and vegetables.

I keep theraphosa blondi's as well as a geckos monitors and african bullfrogs.

This is the reason I started this thread, to help people figure out what is easiest and best for their roaches. I have read that feeding cricket gut load is too high in calcium. Again its just what I've read. I'm still pretty new to raising my own roaches so don't go by me. Check out the recipes posted here for some good stuff. The bag of chicken scratch I picked up from the feed store yesterday was only 8 bucks. Cant get much cheaper or easier then that. It is a 50 lb bag.

 

[biomarine2000]

No... but I think lats are smelly no matter what they are fed....I hate that smell too, so I have tried alot of ways to avoid it and so far nothing... just now I have a substrate in there that has some activated charcoal mixed in and it seems to help a little..... of all my species the lateralis are actually the only ones that have a bad smell to them...

Yeah mine vary in smell. I checked in their substrate last night and notice some little things moving around. Its not mites for sure. It looks like little worms. I'll try and get a pic on here, maybe someone has had an experience with them. They dont seem to be harming the roaches. If I had to guess they are eating the frass.

 

[jmiller]

Yeah mine vary in smell. I checked in their substrate last night and notice some little things moving around. Its not mites for sure. It looks like little worms. I'll try and get a pic on here, maybe someone has had an experience with them. They dont seem to be harming the roaches. If I had to guess they are eating the frass.

They might be dermestid beetles or beetle larvae. I receive a bunch of them in a roach order once. I left them in there to see what would happen as I read that they would not hurt the roaches. But they were in the discoid bin and they are "live breeders". If they are dermestid's they may eat the egg cases of the lateralis but I do not know if they do nor not.

 

[biomarine2000]

They might be dermestid beetles or beetle larvae. I receive a bunch of them in a roach order once. I left them in there to see what would happen as I read that they would not hurt the roaches. But they were in the discoid bin and they are "live breeders". If they are dermestid's they may eat the egg cases of the lateralis but I do not know if they do nor not.

They are breeding so good that it couldn't hurt to get a few of the lat cases eaten just to slow down the production a bit.

 

[kupo969]

I want to try something new for my crix.

I was thinking:

Cat food
Dog food
Unmedicated chicken feed
Fish pellets
wheat bran
rolled oats (oatmeal)

I think that's enough protein, I have all of these lying around.

 

[B.L.]

This is the reason I started this thread, to help people figure out what is easiest and best for their roaches. I have read that feeding cricket gut load is too high in calcium. Again its just what I've read. I'm still pretty new to raising my own roaches so don't go by me. Check out the recipes posted here for some good stuff. The bag of chicken scratch I picked up from the feed store yesterday was only 8 bucks. Cant get much cheaper or easier then that. It is a 50 lb bag.

I talked to a seller of dubias today and they told me the roaches really don't like cricket food but if they do eat it, it probably will not hurt anything. I am not convinced crickets like cricket food either but hey I got a bottle of the crap. LOL.

 

[biomarine2000]

I talked to a seller of dubias today and they told me the roaches really don't like cricket food but if they do eat it, it probably will not hurt anything. I am not convinced crickets like cricket food either but hey I got a bottle of the crap. LOL.

Yeah I know what you mean. I have a bottle of it too and yes they will definately eat it. I fed it to them a while back and they ate it up.