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I feed Reds. My beardie loves them and they breed super fast. I have only had a few escapees and that was due to me not being careful when I dipped into my breeder bin for feeders. Supposedly if you live in a cold climate (Ohio) they can't become a pest. I have had them for almost a year now and...

My cats look at my beardies cage with fascination but they have never made a move to jump on the top of the cage. For one, if they touched one of the lights, esp the MVB they would be burned and two, they are scolded anytime they even remotely look like that's a possibility. My cats are tiny...

I have these guys. I started out with 2000 nymphs from the Bugpros (didn't have any problems) and in 5 months I was overrun with roaches. Unfortunately right when I had a sustainable population my beardie went into brumation and stopped eating for about 4 months. Now my beardie is out of his...

I second the suggestion to order from The Bug Pros. I see that they have resumed selling Turks. I bought about 1-3K from them for less than $30 awhile back. That's more than enough to get a nice colony going. My dragon is now on a hunger strike and only eating Turks, which is a good thing.

That's true BUT the burden of proof is on us the owners to proove that we have owned said animal previous to the ban. Not saying it will go this far but I am not a fan of this type of legislation. Maybe we should all chip in and buy the Obama girls a Beardie so if it does get to the point...

Mine have never hissed. The worst thing they do is that they can crawl up your arm really fast and totally creep me out. I haven't done much harvesting out of my roach colony since it's still developing but I have culled out some males before. I have two bins. A colony bin and an empty bin...

I wish I would have known the name of it. I went to Home Depot AND Lowes and asked for water crystals for potted plants and they all looked at me like I had two heads. They claimed to have never heard of such a thing. I finally found some on line.

I like my Turkistan roaches. They don't smell for the most part...most of the smell comes from the Dog and Cat food I feed them that gets cooked on the heating pad under the bin. They grow super fast and breed like maniacs. I just saw my first batch of little turks today. And my dragon loves...

My guys is about 7 months old and has completely lost interest too. Have you started feeding him something else? I started feeding mine Turks and supers in addition to the crix but now I am back to crix until my Turk colony gets started and he refuses to eat the crix. The Turks and Worms he'll...

Mine has been doing the same thing! My temps are 105-110 and I measure mine with a Infrared Temp Gun (well worth the $30). I was getting worried about my guy doing this as well. He seems good so far except now he's back on the crix for the time being.

Mine get whole kibble of dog and cat food. I used to grind it up until someone pointed out that it didn't really make a difference. -Left over stems from my bd's salad -Corn meal -Left over betta fish food and shrimp pellets -Carrots I need to get some oranges quickly.

As always, great advice. Thanks everyone. Once I get rid of the 30 or so large crix I will start harvesting the males.

I have heard that and will be getting some oranges soon. For awhile I was entertaining the idea of making water crystals out of orange juice but decided that the risk of mold was too great. Do you guys spray your bins? What I do is I have two ashtrays filled w/water crystals that sit on the...

I think I will start culling them as soon as my cricket bin is freed up! I just peeked into my bin and guess what I saw hanging out from the bum of one of my females??!! An egg sack! I am so excited that I can see the end in sight for not using crickets. :blob5: It's a glorious day. I still...

:blob8: I bought 1K -3K hatchling turkistan roaches at the beginning of January when I first got my beardie and as of this week it looks like they are almost all grown up! I am seeing a lot of huge females and a lot of males with wings. I could start harvesting the males but I don't want to...