Lateralis Colony

[goReptiles]

I'm pretty excited I just bought 4000 lateralis roaches for $70 shipped. I can't wait to get the colony working. I tested 50 of them a few weeks ago, and my guys liked them, so hopefully this will work better than the dubia.

I may still do crickets on occasion, especially for my cresteds, but roaches don't smell, so they're perfectly fine in the house without stinking up the place.

 

[NRG]

I have just switched to lateralis also. My leo lost interest in dubias as they don't seem to attract his attention enough. Overall I would say lateralis are great and adults are not too big for leo's to manage.

 

[T-ReXx]

+1 I do have a couple leos who turn their nose up at lats(Blizzards of course lol) but the majority of mine love them. They also breed at an incredibly fast rate. Overall, I'm pretty happy with them.

 

[gothra]

I would love to try out the turks too; my knobtails won't eat the dubias as they don't move much. And I hate the crickets. I heard they can't climb vertical surfaces, but I've seen so many pics of them climbing up the side of the tubs. Do you think I can prevent escapes if I put shipping tapes along the inside of a plastic tub? The location I'm in, I'm pretty sure they'll breed very well in my house.

 

[T-ReXx]

I would love to try out the turks too; my knobtails won't eat the dubias as they don't move much. And I hate the crickets. I heard they can't climb vertical surfaces, but I've seen so many pics of them climbing up the side of the tubs. Do you think I can prevent escapes if I put shipping tapes along the inside of a plastic tub? The location I'm in, I'm pretty sure they'll breed very well in my house.

I've noticed they usually get about half way and fall, they're pretty bad at climbing. I do use smooth shipping tape along the upper inside edges of the tubs and I have pretty much 0% escapes. So I doubt you'd have any issues with that type of setup.

Oh, and you're knobbies will most likely love them, they're crazy active and dont bury themselves like dubia, most geckos have a crazy feeding response trigger to them.

 

[goReptiles]

I can't wait to get them in and get the colony started. The guy said that the females are already reproducing.

I didn't have problems with the dubia, except the reproduced slower than I wanted. I used all the smaller nymphs on hatchlings and juvies before the roaches ever reached breeding size, which is why I'm excited about these.

I tried a small group on my geckos, and they seemed to like them well enough.

 

[v2s13]

I want to try feeding lats to my geckos but its hard to catch them since I only use tweezers to get them. I dont really like touching lats, but I have no prob catching crix though using my hands.

 

[bkelley02]

I know this has been dead for a while, but I use the cardboard rolls from toilet paper or paper towels to get them out of the bins. I leave the cardboard tubes in the bins for a hiding spot, and pick them up and shake them into a smaller container that I can more easily catch them with tweezers in.

 

[TheRed]

I have a colony of Dubia, and noticed one tiny lateralis in my tub a few months ago. The other day I noticed that it was about an inch long, so I put it in with my leo that doesn't like dubias at all. She loved it so I'll probably buy more of these soon.
Do they hide like Dubias do? When I put Dubias in with my cresteds I usually find them all under the paper towels when I clean the tubs, which is why I usually feed them crickets. If they run around more then I'll buy some for sure.