Anyone else figure that out too late as well?
My husband and I wanted a beardie for about a year now. When we finally got Moira in April, we were super excited.... and then we began looking up feeders. We had not done any research into keeping them. We thought "1000 crickets for $22! Wow, that should last her for forever!", not realizing she can actually eat 1000~ crickets in under two weeks. So when the bug expenses started piling up (still are!), we began looking into starting a colony of Dubias. We saw people on youtube handling them, letting the roaches crawl on their hands, etc. We thought they were crazy and decided we would only use tweezers to touch them.
So we started our colony about a month ago now. My husband and I have become a little attached to them. We never considered we would have pet bugs with a pet lizard. We even let them run around our hands when messing with them! We have become "one of those people" that we saw in the videos and we try to explain to others who ask about our beardie's food and such that the dubias are roaches, but "not" roaches. They are pets. They eat salads and oranges. They don't sit there eating on gross dead things like we imagined normal roaches do.
So did anyone else get a little shocker when they received their bearded dragon? Did you ever wake up one morning and go "I'm going to breed roaches today"? Let us know we're not the only crazys out here. Hahaha.
My husband and I wanted a beardie for about a year now. When we finally got Moira in April, we were super excited.... and then we began looking up feeders. We had not done any research into keeping them. We thought "1000 crickets for $22! Wow, that should last her for forever!", not realizing she can actually eat 1000~ crickets in under two weeks. So when the bug expenses started piling up (still are!), we began looking into starting a colony of Dubias. We saw people on youtube handling them, letting the roaches crawl on their hands, etc. We thought they were crazy and decided we would only use tweezers to touch them.
So we started our colony about a month ago now. My husband and I have become a little attached to them. We never considered we would have pet bugs with a pet lizard. We even let them run around our hands when messing with them! We have become "one of those people" that we saw in the videos and we try to explain to others who ask about our beardie's food and such that the dubias are roaches, but "not" roaches. They are pets. They eat salads and oranges. They don't sit there eating on gross dead things like we imagined normal roaches do.
So did anyone else get a little shocker when they received their bearded dragon? Did you ever wake up one morning and go "I'm going to breed roaches today"? Let us know we're not the only crazys out here. Hahaha.