Recent content by Killa J

I was looking at dubiaroaches.com and dubiaroachdepot.com. I had been getting mine from them, and neither place has them in stock other than small quantities. I’ll check out the other places you listed.

I can’t seem to find them in bulk right now. Is this just the time of year, or is there some dubia shortage out there? I’m still trying to get my colony self sustaining, but I’m probably at least a month or 2 away from that. I have around 50 adults, and a good bit of dubia that are probably 1...

Yeah, I didn’t think about the thermostat malfunctioning. My probe gets knocked off the basking spot all the time. I planned on gluing it there, but still. I’ll check out Ace hardware

GENERAL ELECTRIC Incandescent 250W, Br40 Clear Heat Lamp, 4 Year Life, E26 Medium Base, 1pk Light Bulb Robot or human? This is the bulb

I found GE 250W incandescent heat lamps at Walmart for pretty cheap. They’re clear bulb, not the red ones for chickens. If my thermostat is dimming and rated up to 700W, any reason not to use one of these? I’ve got UV and bright white LED lighting already, just looking to get something with...

What wattage would you recommend? I currently use an Arcadia Deep Heat Projector, a UV bulb, and an Arcadia UV light strip. I’ve found the DHP works really well, but it doesn’t seem to work well beyond 12”

It’s a 24” cage. I could mount the UV inside the cage instead of over the screen, that would probably make 6” tall fine for UV. But there’s not a good way to mount the heat lamp inside, so I think it still needs to be taller. Maybe I’m just overthinking it

I’m trying to set up a good hide/basking platform. I want it to be large enough for when the dragon is fully grown. I vastly underestimated how much stone it would take to make it. It ends up only being around 6” tall and already weighs 25 pounds. I don’t want to add a ton of extra weight, but I...

It doesn’t look like there’s a known exact amount of protein to feed dubias. According to dubiaroachdepot.com, a study done on a different roach species found 25% to be the sweet spot. The chick feed I use is 17%, the Repashy Bug Burger I was using is 13%. The same article said that lower...

I feed my dubias chick feed based on a few videos I watched on YouTube. Don’t know if that’s an issue or not

On second thought, maybe agar would work better. Since gelatin is usually from beef and they say not to feed animal products to dubia.

It’s only got the one ingredient - gelatin. So it will add a small amount of protein. It might end up costing too much depending on how much gelatin it takes to make the gel.

I’ll give it a shot with a small amount to see how it works. I don’t see gelatin in the Bug Burger, it’s got some other thickeners. But I think that at the speed they eat it, there’s not much worry about it spoiling

I started a dubia colony a few months ago. I had been feeding them Repashy Bug Burger, but now that I have a good bit of dubias they are eating it really fast. It’s fairly expensive, so I bought a 10lb bag of dubia food from one of the breeders. Can I add gelatin to it and make it like the Bug...