Question about food variety

[Dragonfly_Dust]

I've been feeding my leo a combination of crickets and dubia roaches for a few months now.

After experiencing caring for both feeder insects, I'm loving the roaches and hating the crickets with a passion.

Crickets are noisy, smelly, die easily, and are annoying jumpy escapees. Dubia roaches are quiet, not smelly, hardy, and the worst climbers I've ever seen.

So I'm thinking about getting rid of crickets all together and replacing them with another roach species like a discoid and/or orange heads.

I'm wondering however if providing only different species of roaches to eat would be enough variety for my leo's diet???

 

[BadKelpie]

I have been wondering if roaches were enough too. I supplement with mealworms, but Clementine doesn't like them much. I get a couple dozen crickets every couple weeks to split between my geckos and frogs, just enough that I don't have to try and store them. Last time though, both geckos didn't seem to want them (they ate them, but seemed disappointed that they weren't roaches. Echo eats mealworms, but not superworms, I don't know if Clem would eat supers, I haven't tried them since she just recently got big enough for them. Both absolutely love dubias.

 

[ReptileWorld]

variety is always a great thing but sometimes some geckos dont need variety and just like what they are being given and will protest to other feeders. I have one female leo in my colony that refuses to eat any type of roache shes basically afraid of them. she eats crickets and worms with no problem. all my leos take on dubia roaches but the thing with that is some now are starting not to eat them as aggressively as they use to so now i just started a mealworm colony.

 

[Dragonfly_Dust]

Well my gecko likes crickets, it's just that I don't like using crickets. I don't want to deal with them anymore! And I gave up on feeder worms since Vastervik gotten so fat because of them.

I'm just not sure if different species of roaches are enough of a variety for a leo since roaches tend to having similar nutritional value...

 

[ReptileWorld]

well since i breed dubia thats their main food when i want to change it up i normally just buy 1000 super worms and keep them here and feed out of them until their all gone then wont use them for a while and get some mealies and sometimes crickets but just enough to feed that day and thats it.