Seperating Roaches

[Fencer04]

For those of you that keep roaches I have two questions:

1. Do you separate them by size for feeding purposes? If so how?

2. When you are ready to feed how do you remove the ones you are going to use to feed from the colony?

 

[im faster]

fingers

 

[fl_orchidslave]

fingers

Ewwwwww! Maybe I'm a pansy, but I use feeding tongs to handle all my feeders.

 

[Fencer04]

How many geckos do you feed? I have a feeling it would take me way to long to get them all by hand.

 

[touch 13]

Geez, I can't remember off of the top of my head, but i do believe ReXx had a great article regarding roach coloneys and how to seperate the babies. I will work on trying to find that for you and post again here shortly.

 

[touch 13]

here's the article Ted had posted earlier this week, thank him not me for it =]
http://theroachguy.com/caresheet.htm

 

[Fencer04]

Thanks a ton, I knew that I had seen something on here but couldn't find it. I really appreciate the assist.

 

[Desdemona]

I put my babies in a seperate container than the adults, I seperate when I clean the adult enclosure and usually get enough babies to keep me going for a while. If you put the egg cartons in with the babies they will stick to them.. so I put a container down in the cage under the egg carton and tap the top of the egg carton so they fall in. Its the easiest way I found to get a lot of babies at one time.

I am still experimenting with getting the babies out of the adult tank and NOT getting a ton of poo with them. I found cheep strainers at target that I think will work as long as the babies arn't at their tinest. The holes are small and it's plastic so they can't crawl up it. I tried a metal strainer once with really small holes but I didn't think about the climbing aspect and I ended up chasing a bunch of them and lost a few since I was straining over the trash (oops).

This is for the babies in the bottom, I also use the egg crates in the adult cage and transfer most of them that way. The adults are easy enough to catch for me, jut not those babies (the ones who fall out). Roaches also LOVE paper towel rolls, even more than egg crates, so throw some of those in your enclosure and you can trasnfer a bunch at one time if you prestage a few days before your cleaning or whatever.

 

[Desdemona]

I guess I should stop being lazy and take the time to make the buckets.. I do have a drill so no excuses, haha.