What is you favorite roach???

[Boopster]

i have dubia roaches...but two of my females had abortion and died.. so i got two females and one male left...
Evenstar

I think the problem is you have to few. If you start with a hundred roaches it doesnt matter if one or two kickes the bucket. With only three it will take ages before you can start harvesting.
When they abort their oothecas I think it is most often stress or too little moist food. If I dont feed mine the grated carrot fore more then a few days I also find a lot of cast away oothecas.

Good luck!

Axel

 

[Yamori]

Nauphoeta cinerea AKA Speckled feeder roach-

Speckled Feeder Roaches are:

¨ Easy to keep and breed.
¨ Live for up to a year .
¨ Equally as acceptable to reptiles & amphibians as other foods.(in fact most prefer them.)
¨ Perfect for Dragons, Geckos, Skinks, Monitors and frogs.
¨ Unlike crickets, they almost ‘thrive on neglect’ and do not smell.
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[Sunrise Reptile]

None. I have trouble getting the little legs out from between my teeth.

:main_laugh: Sorry, it was just too darn irresistible!

 

[fOOlsgOld]

what places online would be good to get rusty reds roaches? i think i will try them...

i have dubia roaches...but two of my females had abortion and died.. so i got two females and one male left... the others i fed them to my bearded dragon...This is my first time raising roaches...i read instructions on how to raise them... it sounds pretty easy...it is a tad harder than i though cause my success rate with them is very low... i thought it would be simple like crickets or mealworms...okay really mealworms was not that easy but my success rate was higher...

Evenstar

Where do you live? I have a colony that my 5 geckos can't keep up with lol. Hubby is going to kill me but in a few months I may have to cull or sell some... hey, at least if I am able to sell some I'll get back some of the $ I've put into them right?? lol

 

[Barbel]

I have only tried lobster and dubias. I hated the lobsters because the small ones would climb out the air holes in my tubs. I like the dubia because they can't crawl out and easy to breed. My leos love them. They go after them like crazy. They do try to hide, but if you poke them, they run out and usually don't make it to the next hiding place.

 

[daleo]

i like the dubias because they dont make noise, easy to care for and they make great feeders. i feed the babys to my slings( baby tarantulas), the juvies to my geckos and juvie tarantulas and the large adult males to my large tarantulas( can you tell i have alot of tarantulas? LOL)

dale

 

[TMF]

I voted other for Discoids (Blaberus discoidales). But im a little biased because i live in florida and there are only 2 "legal" roaches allowed that do not require a permit, those being discoids and deathheads.

 

[Krow]

I don't use roaches, I feed my leo super worms.

 

[snakegirl]

My Favorite kind of roach, is a dead kind of roach! ( :

 

[Obsidian Tears]

Wow...this was started forever ago. I have several different kinds of roaches that I keep for feeders, but my favorite out of all of them are the hissers. For some reason I think they're adorable...especially their faces (but then again, I'm the weirdo that gets super excited when my mealworm/superworm beetles are getting it on and runs around telling everyone about it...). And the babies are the size of small crickets, so they have many uses for me. As young ones they can go to gecko's and tarantula's, and when they get too big for that they turn into monitor food....or just amusement for me to take to work and play with....

 

[BalloonzForU]

ummm a DEAD one!!

 

[Retribution Reptiles]

ummm a DEAD one!!

yeah i'm going to have to second that one :main_thumbsup:

 

[Palor]

i have a colony of Orangeheads and a colony of Turkistans.

 

[laughing dog]

i just got some dubias, and the toad is eating all the dead adult females(all i got)one each day. anyone know of anyone who might want to part with some kind of roaches cheap or free(as many online have said they just dont want their roaches)? the Dubias i got seem to be dieing from shipping, though the baby hissers seem to be thriveing. i now have six of each stage of Dubia left, with all adult females.

 

[T-ReXx]

I vote for lateralis. I got mine from The Bug Pros and started with 2000, 2 months later there were TONS of them. I've got a dubia colony as well, but the lats seem to get more of a feeding response because of their activity level. Also, even adult lats are an ok size for big leopard geckos, the dubia can only be fed to larger species once they reach large size. I'm not a fan of lobsters(way too difficult to contain) and hissers are interesting, but not great in large amounts because they climb.

 

[ajq1540]

Don't feed roaches because I think it is pointless if my geckos are fine on crickets,mealies,wax worms, and supers...correct me if I'm wrong, are my geckos messing out on something not getting roaches.

 

[Chewbecca]

Don't feed roaches because I think it is pointless if my geckos are fine on crickets,mealies,wax worms, and supers...correct me if I'm wrong, are my geckos messing out on something not getting roaches.

Nope, not really. As long as you're feeding crickets and don't mind touching them.
Crickets freak me out more than roaches, I think.
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[ajq1540]

Everybody is different lol