Dubia breeding...

[LCReptiles]

So I originally ordered 100 mixed sexed/mixed sized Dubias. They arrived and I had quite a few adult females but no males. Thanks to midwestdubia I was able to get ahold of 5 adult males. I'm wondering at this point if I should just remove all the nymphs from the bin and allow the adults to do their thing. At least that way I will have a time line on when to expect the first batch of babies etc. What do you guys think?

 

[Mclaughlin]

I separate my breeders from nymphs with my Dubias. Once my hissers birth, I will do the same for them.

 

[DrCarrotTail]

I leave all mine together as one big happy family. It took about 4-6 weeks for mine to have their first babies but after that there are lots!

 

[Nooon]

I never separate them - they don´t eat their young.
They like to cuddle up all together on top of each other. They like to be many.

 

[LepoInc]

So I have a question now. I have 3 females and 2 males, about 3-4 days into maturity. I'm expecting more but for the sake of the Convo, I'll just say 2.3. If I'm feeding some citrus and leaving them alone, what's a good time frame to expect nymphs?

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[DrCarrotTail]

My guesstimate would be 4-6 weeks. I think their gestation/incubation lasts about 4 weeks.

I had a heat lamp on mine and they hated it so it took me like 3-4 months to get babies out of my mature adults. Once I got a heating pad I got babies less than 4 weeks later.

 

[Mclaughlin]

A Couple weeks to sexual maturity then 8 weeks from being knocked up to giving birth

 

[Mclaughlin]

That's after reaching adult hood

 

[SC Geckos]

Mature breeding females will usually have 30 babies (nymphs) every 30 days or so if there heated and cared for properly. While I am on the subject of dubia colonies, I think many people have problems breeding dubia because of a few reasons IMO...

#1 They are not house/set up properly. They should be housed in a dark tub with some ventilation but not too much, with no lights at all. The darker the better. Use a heat mat on a thermostat set between 90-95 degrees on the side of the tub. Use cardboard "egg flats" standing up vertically back to back. This creates tons of little hiding places up against the heat.


#2 Too large of a setup. dubia love to be in close quarters with one another so do not separate them unless you have a huge colony. Not only do they like close quarters but a very large part of the very young nymphs diet is from eating the dropping of the larger roaches. So don't separate them and don't feed them off until the colony is established which could take a few months

#3 Feeding/diet. Use a ground up dry chow for there primary source of food. Offer fruits and veggies but make sure if they are not eaten in 24 hours that they get removed mold can kill a colony pretty quickly.

I am sure there are many people that do things a bit different and I may have forgot to mention something, but this has worked for my colony for for over 4 years now. I started with 50 mixed and now have THOUSANDS!!

Hope this helps someone.