Best stable feeder?

[Fishycat]

whats the best feeder insect that i can use as my juvenile dragon's diet with her greens i am currently feeding her crickets but its getting a bit pricey buying them at the petstore so what can i replace them with? i think i need to buy them in bulk online if so whats the best site to buy them on? and how much should i feed her?

 

[anc90]

Dubias are great! Super easy to feed,and they breed with little to no work.
I bought 1k off of a member on here to start feeding my guy,and 5 females and 5 males to get my breeding started, I keep them in a large rubbermaid container on top of the dryer,with a UTH on the bottom of the container on their egg crate side.Then some roach chow along with a green or fruit/veggie every day.Also water crystals.

They need to be dusted everyday like crickets but much cheaper! JDRoaches on here sells them per 500 starting at $25.00. I keep mine in a little bowl and Logan can just help himself for around 20 mins I refill when needed,he get's feed up to three times per day.

 

[Fishycat]

ah cool thank you! c: i still live with my mother and i don't think she will like the idea of having roaches in her house but maybe i can find a way to convince her. I will try my best c:

 

[jducky18]

If you don't call them roaches, call them dubia, and just refer to them as feeders, you can tell your mom that they don't smell, don't make noise, can't escape anything with smooth sides (like a bowl or a tupperwear container), and if one happens to get loose in your house, they cannot breed and infest your house. Sounds like a pretty good argument to me. They also don't die nearly as fast as crickets do, so they're even more cost effective.

 

[Fishycat]

If you don't call them roaches, call them dubia, and just refer to them as feeders, you can tell your mom that they don't smell, don't make noise, can't escape anything with smooth sides (like a bowl or a tupperwear container), and if one happens to get loose in your house, they cannot breed and infest your house. Sounds like a pretty good argument to me. They also don't die nearly as fast as crickets do, so they're even more cost effective.

ah that sounds like a good idea i will try it and hopefully she will let me, if she doesn't let me keep them inside can i successfully breed them outside? i live in the southern part of Texas so our weathers never really get that cold.

 

[jducky18]

They breed in 85-90 degrees, consistently. I'm sure it's possible to breed them outside, you just may not get stable numbers because of temperature variations, but I do know that some people have had success breeding them in garages. I simply put the bin in the back corner of my closet under a shelf, they can't escape the bin and they are out of the way and out of sight, and really don't have a smell, so they don't affect my clothes (and no one is likely to trip over the bin and cause a stampede)

 

[Fishycat]

They breed in 85-90 degrees, consistently. I'm sure it's possible to breed them outside, you just may not get stable numbers because of temperature variations, but I do know that some people have had success breeding them in garages. I simply put the bin in the back corner of my closet under a shelf, they can't escape the bin and they are out of the way and out of sight, and really don't have a smell, so they don't affect my clothes (and no one is likely to trip over the bin and cause a stampede)

i have started to ask my mother about breeding them making sure i don't use the word roach, but i have yet to get an answer hopefully if she sees how much money we can save by breeding them she can finally agree