Hi everyone,
I just thought I would share my story with my dubia roaches I currently have. I ordered about 100 roaches back in August/September and began feeding my beardies a few everyday. Well, I was going to try to start my own colony, but I knew I couldn't because they were not allowed inside and the weather was about to get cold, so I fed off as many as I could but still had adults that were too large to feed my beardies. Eventually, between the cold weather (they stayed in a 30 gallon aquarium in a shed with no heat) and getting busy with school and going back to feeding my beardies crickets, I forgot about the dubias. Well, they went 5 months without food and water (the roaches) and stayed in the shed through the coldest winter ever in my area, which we had numerous nights in the teens plus 6" of snow, etc. Well, my dad said something about them since they are in his shed and I couldn't believe it. Most of the roaches were STILL ALIVE!!!!! :shock: I was stunned because I had always heard they couldn't survive the cold weather or outside of a certain humidity range, etc. So now I have a partial colony that I hadn't even attempted to start. Now, my mom has all the more reason to refuse to allow them in the house. But on the positivie side I have a feeder other than crickets or worms to give my beardies
Lexie
I just thought I would share my story with my dubia roaches I currently have. I ordered about 100 roaches back in August/September and began feeding my beardies a few everyday. Well, I was going to try to start my own colony, but I knew I couldn't because they were not allowed inside and the weather was about to get cold, so I fed off as many as I could but still had adults that were too large to feed my beardies. Eventually, between the cold weather (they stayed in a 30 gallon aquarium in a shed with no heat) and getting busy with school and going back to feeding my beardies crickets, I forgot about the dubias. Well, they went 5 months without food and water (the roaches) and stayed in the shed through the coldest winter ever in my area, which we had numerous nights in the teens plus 6" of snow, etc. Well, my dad said something about them since they are in his shed and I couldn't believe it. Most of the roaches were STILL ALIVE!!!!! :shock: I was stunned because I had always heard they couldn't survive the cold weather or outside of a certain humidity range, etc. So now I have a partial colony that I hadn't even attempted to start. Now, my mom has all the more reason to refuse to allow them in the house. But on the positivie side I have a feeder other than crickets or worms to give my beardies
Lexie