Dubia Colony Q

[mysterysock]

How do you guys maintain a consistent Dubia colony? What I mean is - how do you keep enough adults to breed and babies to use as feeders, and without running out of the colony or having millions and millions of roaches?

 

[gregorydragon]

You will eventually just have millions and millions of roaches. Then you just need more beardies

 

[mysterysock]

Thats the reply I was looking for.. Considering breeding every bug so I'll just have to compensate with more dragons to eat them!

 

[augsburg1530]

Eventually you will end up with more feeders than you can feed. Once you reach a sustainable colony, you can slow down their breeding by removing heat from the tote. Right now my dubia breeders get now heat, they continue to breed but at a much slower rate.

You can either get more reptiles to feed them to, sell off your excess, or you can put them in a plastic bag and freeze them overnight to humanly kill off the overflow.

Eric

 

[slantedii]

BTW...I dunno about you, but being frozen to death over several hours does not seem humane!!! lol.

 

[mysterysock]

Thanks for the input. I'll prolly go with a heating pad since it seems to be the easiest method. Just wasn't sure of what kind/wattage to get.