EverEvolvingExotics
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I've had my colony of dubia roaches since September of 2011. I've never had a problem with them producing enough for me. In the last few months I've had an alarming amount of roach death. For awhile I wasn't sure if it was a bad batch of egg cartons or if the roaches were just reaching the end of their life cycle. It's mostly adults that are dying but I have a small amount of sub adult dying as well. It's not just a few deaths either every other day when I change their vegetables out I clean out handfuls of dead roaches. Previous to this I was able to go many months without cleaning because I was told it's best to leave them alone. I'm now changing the egg crates every week to every other week and completely disinfecting the setup because I have tons of small flies/gnats I'm even noticing small maggots, it's disgusting. I'm completely on top of cleaning and don't understand how in literally 2-3 days I find more maggots, flies/gnats, and handfuls of dead roaches.
This is incredibly frustrating because I feed all of my geckos these as their sole feeders as well as my bearded dragon. All the geckos and bearded dragon haven't had any negative effects from this but I don't know what to do. Should I start over and get a whole new colony? If so how do I safely dispose of all the roaches I have? I don't want to get an entirely new colony just to have this happen again. I'm doing everything exactly like the care sheets say.
Any ideas would be great appreciated.
This is incredibly frustrating because I feed all of my geckos these as their sole feeders as well as my bearded dragon. All the geckos and bearded dragon haven't had any negative effects from this but I don't know what to do. Should I start over and get a whole new colony? If so how do I safely dispose of all the roaches I have? I don't want to get an entirely new colony just to have this happen again. I'm doing everything exactly like the care sheets say.
Any ideas would be great appreciated.