Roaches - what species (besides Dubia and RR) do you use as feeders?

[antinous]

Would eventually like to move from mealworms and superworms in the future, so was wondering what species fo roaches you use besides the most common two (Dubia and Red Runners)? Planning to get some Dubia, but would also like to keep another species or two to use interchangeably.

 

[BoyFromLA]

I time to time used hissing roaches when I still had larger tarantulas, but that’s no longer the case for me.

 

[Jumbie Spider]

Discoids

 

[viper69]

Never use

 

[antinous]

Ended up grabbing some adult pairs of 𝘌𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘫𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 and 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘳. Going to set them up in a Sterilite bin with a gasket and then solder some very small holes in (or just use a heated needle) for ventilation.

Going to keep them at room temp 70-80s during the day and high 60s-70s during the night. Hopefully they’ll still breed over time. The tarantulas I have are mainly 1-2” so not large enough to take adults, but hopefully the colonies will be large to use as supplemental feeders for when the spiders mature.

 

[wizentrop]

I'm gonna piss some people off now...
I don't keep dubias and red runners and never will.

My "go to" feeder roach is Simandoa. It's perfect, and I have 5 different colonies for my use.
For large arachnids, I use Blaberus parabolicus and Phortioeca.
For small predators, I alternate between Loboptera decipiens, Pseudoglomeris magnifica nymphs, and silverfish.

 

[JonnyTorch]

I've heard (and know people) that have had great success with Red Goblin Roaches.

 

[chanda]

I sometimes use spare hissers as feeders for my larger t's - especially if I have a nice, soft, freshly-molted one.

 

[Kaqpewqt]

Eublaberus sp. Ivory, just because I have them anyway as I love to watch them, and because they reproduce very well. They bury very fast though.
Blaberus craniifer because they can be kept the same as dubias and grow a little bigger, + they are a lot more skittish and trigger a better feeding response than dubias.

I also started keeping lobster roaches (N. cinerea), pallid roaches (P. pallida) and giant lobster roaches (H. flexivitta) a few weeks ago.
I bought them because I just wanted some faster-metabolism roaches to observe as I love watching my RR colonys. Gonna start feeding them off in a few weeks when the colonys are really established. The giant lobster roaches arent as giant as I thought though, they get around 1.5" but they are so thin that they cant replace dubias. I hate dubias.

I keep dubias but they are the only species I ever had problems with, may it be die-off after some brands of cat- or dogfood, mites, molting problems and so on. Never had any problems with any other roach species tho.

 

[paumotu]

I use little kenyan cockroaches for small mantids and whipspiders