Roach Count

[pinkfoot]

I recently got to wondering what levels the roach keeping community keep their various feeder species at. ie How big - or small - are your collections, if you estimate them today??!

Mine:
Viable Species - 7
Estimated roaches - 600

 

[bluefrogtat2]

tons

i have 14 different roaches,my discoid colony alone is over 2000
andy

 

[Andrew273]

I have 3 species, G portentosa, B dubia, and N cinera. Currently I only use the adult Lobsters and baby hissers as food.

300+ Lobsters
40-50+ Hissers
~100 Spotteds

 

[cacoseraph]

would have had more but my main colony crashed. i was keeping it at a petstore and overwatered on accident. it somehow became fairly massive amounts of ammonia which turns out to be fairly poisonous to bugs

 

[jbrd]

Well over 2500, with eight different species to choose from. The B.giganteous is the best feeders for large adults' while the B.dubia nymphs work best for slings.

 

[loxoscelesfear]

2500 + 2 species: cranifers & discoids

 

[pinkfoot]

Great response, all, and as suspected, my colonies are still waaay below viable to feed to my tarantulas and Beardies.

Very interesting to see the numbers you guys/gals have on hand! :clap:

Caco ~ really bummed to read your bad news, man! Gonna take some time and Bucks to replace your collection.

 

[Truff135]

I've probably got close to 200 but I doubt I've any more than that. I just got a starter colony of about 100 maybe...4 months ago, so it'll be another few months before I have enough to begin feeding. I feed a medium one off every now and then because my tarantulas absolutely love them. I have noticed that some of my original larger ones are now adult and making babies of their own!!!

 

[Rochelle]

Yeah Truff!! :clap: :clap: Glad to hear that the colony is taking off for you! I just knew you'd be a good bug mommy! :clap: :clap:

As for deciding when you have a viable colony for feeding your T's...well - you really need to take a look at how many and what size T's you're feeding.
Most of us who have over the 2500 mark are feeding very large collections.

 

[tacoma0680]

I use two different types of roaches and have about 6000 of each B lats and B dubia I think they are the best to feed.

 

[pinkfoot]

This is really interesting!

Please keep the counts coming, guys & gals, regardless of what size you have, :clap:

Just, BTW, I have 120plus tarantulas of all sizes and two Beardies...

 

[Snake_Eyes]

Couple hundred now (mainly nymphs)

I just sold back 1025 sub-adult to adult dubia back to my LPS along with probably 4-500 nymphs.

I started with 52 a year ago.

 

[arrowhd]

250 B. dubia and growing.

 

[ScorpDemon]

I have probably between 2000-2500 B. dubia if I had to guess.

 

[crixalis]

i have 45+ roaches..2 species->harlequin(adult) and hissers(sub adult)..

 

[pinkfoot]

Some nice collections here! :clap:

My P. pallida colony has just become viable to feed from, but I hit a setback ~ I thought the purple/brown ones were the females, and the winged ones were all males, and I've feed off scores of females in error! Damn!