Cleaner Crews Question

[Bailey91990]

I got my package of 1000Medium Mixed Size Dubia Roaches from WestCoastRoaches yesterday. & Usually when I get dubias from there, theres usually few smallllll black beetles which are a Cleaner Crew at the beetle stage. But this time I got a TONNN of them! Which is awesome because I kind of want some to help clean out my Dubia COlony. My question is can I throw them right into the colony right now to do the job? Or do they have to be either worms and large beetles to start cleaning out the dead roaches?
And if there not ready to start doing there job is it still okay to throw them in with the Colony for when they are at the right stage they can start?

 

[Doublet74]

Perfectly fine. Toss em on in. LOVE WCR BTW.

 

[Bailey91990]

awesome, im laying in bed but im gonna go toss them in right now lol. and yea there only one I order from for roaches, sooo much cheaper then all the other big business guys. & they have auctions on facebook everyday so you can win like 1000medium roaches for like 20 30$ sometimes which is INSANEEEEEEE

 

[Bailey91990]

& when the cleaner crew worms get big, do they kind of look like small superworms? Because I watched a video of a bunch of cleaner crews and some looked like superworms, and I have two that came with my package that do too. BUt I also have the very small Cleaner worms and beetles

 

[Bailey91990]

Oh wow nevermind. I just found out a Cleaner Crew is just bunch of different insects that eat nasty things. I thought they were literally there own bug ahahaha. K this answers alot of questions. So pretty much if I was buy some beetles and mealworms I'd be all set. No wonder why someone told me to throw super/mealworms in with my dubia colony!

 

[icelore]

Oh wow nevermind. I just found out a Cleaner Crew is just bunch of different insects that eat nasty things. I thought they were literally there own bug ahahaha. K this answers alot of questions. So pretty much if I was buy some beetles and mealworms I'd be all set. No wonder why someone told me to throw super/mealworms in with my dubia colony!

Cleaner crews can be made up of different insects, but the point of them is that they are usually flesh eating insects (mainly dermestidae beetles). Meal/super worms will do nothing for your dubia colony as they don't eat dead roaches.