What is This? Not an Egg sack!

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Prodigyitachi

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I was cleaning my Dubia roach bin and I notice one of my female have this yellow looking bubble coming out of her butt. Anyone have any idea what is this? So far i isolated her, is it safe to put her pack into bin.
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Sapphire

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I wouldn't put her back in the bin. Another user posted here a while back with a picture of a female dubia with strange white stuff coming out of her, and someone said it is her internal organs I think, and the roach ended up dying a few days later. I'm not sure if this is the same thing since I'm definitely not a roach expert, but I would definitely keep her separate from the rest.
 

Prodigyitachi

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haha. The female dubia is still alive :shock: . Most likely I prob squished it w/ the egg crates. Sad, wish it was a male or male nymph.
 

Sapphire

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Prodigyitachi":1ibj9db4 said:
haha. The female dubia is still alive :shock: . Most likely I prob squished it w/ the egg crates. Sad, wish it was a male or male nymph.

It is sad. If your dragon is big enough you might as well feed her off, I don't think she'll be having any more babies ever again so there's no real point in keeping her in your colony.
 

Prodigyitachi

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My beardie is 1 month away from being one year :D so she prob cant handle any adults yet. For some reason i feel sad feeding off the female or any female :shock: . I don't feel anything when i feed of my nymphs (beardie) or male (RES turtle). Whats wrong w/ me, i mean its just roaches :p.
Oh I found one female today that have her egg sack sticking out but its all curled up at the end like a "P", not even straight. Sorry don't have pic of that since i didnt want to move any egg crates around.
 

Sapphire

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Prodigyitachi":26c9g242 said:
My beardie is 1 month away from being one year :D so she prob cant handle any adults yet. For some reason i feel sad feeding off the female or any female :shock: . I don't feel anything when i feed of my nymphs (beardie) or male (RES turtle). Whats wrong w/ me, i mean its just roaches :p.
Oh I found one female today that have her egg sack sticking out but its all curled up at the end like a "P", not even straight. Sorry don't have pic of that since i didnt want to move any egg crates around.

Someone told me that a beardie can eat an adult dubia once it reaches the 16" mark but it's probably a good idea to wait until she's a year old, just to be safe. So I guess you just have a pet female dubia with white goop hanging out her bum. :mrgreen:
 

Trogdorpheus

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That's not an eggsac... so no.

Dubia have a much softer chitin than many feeders, so nearing the 1 year mark you'd be plenty fine feeding adults to your beardie (assuming normal growth of your beardie). My girl has been eating adult discoids for about 2 months now, and she's maybe 10 months, and 17.5 - 18" now.

As for them bearing live young... technically speaking they don't. They fertilize an egg, which is transferred to basically an internal incubator inside of the female dubia. Then when they hatch, they come back out of the female, giving the appearance of live birth, where technically they were egg born, it's just the egg was carried around for the entire duration.
 

Prodigyitachi

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Trogdorpheus":6r8pytw8 said:
That's not an eggsac... so no.

Dubia have a much softer chitin than many feeders, so nearing the 1 year mark you'd be plenty fine feeding adults to your beardie (assuming normal growth of your beardie). My girl has been eating adult discoids for about 2 months now, and she's maybe 10 months, and 17.5 - 18" now.

As for them bearing live young... technically speaking they don't. They fertilize an egg, which is transferred to basically an internal incubator inside of the female dubia. Then when they hatch, they come back out of the female, giving the appearance of live birth, where technically they were egg born, it's just the egg was carried around for the entire duration.
As title says "Not an egg sack"
 
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