Successful mini experiment with dubia and pumpkin innards

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DorgEndo

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If this is a known thing and I am the one out of the loop, then I'm sorry for the redundancy. However, I have never seen anyone advise or share their experience using pumpkin innards as feed for the roaches.

I imagine this would work well with any gourd. Usually I toss the innards outside, this time I put them in a ceramic dish to isolate them in case they became moldy (not an issue, roaches ate them up fast).

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Honestly they did a great job. The dish also made removing the extra seeds super easy. I used empty toilet paper rolls to make a bridge in and out while the dish was in the roach box.

This was so easy! Helps makeing healthier roaches and honestly is making it so this doesn't go in the trash or in the backyard where I know raccoons and mice come eat it.
 

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My roaches LOVE pumpkin guts. They also love squash and will easily handle most kinds of kitchen scraps (they also love bread/crusts).
 

DorgEndo

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Thanks Cooper. I did figure out the crust or extra bread thing

It's been almost a year since I started my roach colony. I wish I had known about pumpkin innards. Never would have bought premade roach gel food if I knew that gourd guts would work so well. Roaches seem happy about it too :)
 
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