Dubia Roaches or Discoid Roach ?

[chris00144]

looking into starting a roach colony dont really no if i should start a dubia or discoid colony i have a 12in bearded about 5months now growing almost an inch a week trying to figure out witch is better for her any suggestions thankss ?

 

[wes]

Dubia are cheaper and easier to sex. If you live in Florida, go with Discoid.

 

[Cinder9]

Dubias all the way. They breed faster and dont emit a smell when theyre scared. I believe theyre also slightly healthier to feed too.

 

[Twobeardieguy]

Dubias :wink:

 

[chris00144]

ha ha im guessing dubias are they way to go thanks. Should i start off with a bunch of adults or get a mix ?

 

[Cinder9]

If you want to start feeding them off right away get a mix, otherwise you can get some females and a couple of males and watch the magic happen.

 

[chris00144]

lol ill get a bunch of adults then. Let the magic happen start up a small colony lol .. wheres the best place to get them i live in ny

 

[Cinder9]

I think roachesrus.com is pretty reasonable but theres alot of different places and i havent checked them all out in a while. Make sure you get more females than males, like a 1:5 or 2:5 ratio to get things going faster.

 

[chris00144]

yeah i will thanks alot

 

[suzuki4life]

Dubias all the way. They breed faster and dont emit a smell when theyre scared. I believe theyre also slightly healthier to feed too.

bad information.

Discoids breed just as fast and do not have a defensive odor. They actually grow faster to a larger size but maturity rate is on par with dubia.

My vote is discoid.

Only downfall to discoid is that they are harder to sex.

Buy a breeding set and let them grow. Use what you need as you need them.

 

[Cinder9]

It is not bad info whatsoever, when they are disturbed they DO emit an odor. i never said it was defensive, some people actually like it. dubias DO breed faster because discoids sometimes take a while to get going while dubias dont. discoids also breed easier when not disturbed. if you want extra info go here, viewtopic.php?f=76&t=127035&start=0

 

[suzuki4life]

I breed both and there is no noticable smell difference. But I don't hold my roaches to my face and sniff them.

 

[Cinder9]

No one smells their roaches like that and you dont need to in order to smell it. They dont do it all the time either. Thousands of people will agree to this as it is a fact.

 

[jlyoung1976]

I think roachesrus.com is pretty reasonable but theres alot of different places and i havent checked them all out in a while. Make sure you get more females than males, like a 1:5 or 2:5 ratio to get things going faster.

Hopefully this guy takes care of you better than he has taken care of his previous customers. i am still waiting on my order from August that has been paid for but only received half of. But I doubt i ever see the rest of that order.

I would suggest the following site http://www.gregsexoticinverts.com/ He has never screwed anyone out of their order and always gives way more than you actually order. i think he is even cheaper as well.


and here is an e-mail exert.....


Yes I had meant to tell you that, but I stared some more colonies and I am just beat these past few days. I am glad to hear you go them ok, I will throw in a few more females to make it up to you for not recieving all your order. The reason being is the bins I have marked as large didnt really look that large enough to me and I felt it would have been bad to have sent you those.

I told you, that you wouldn't get dead one's for me. Well if it's not asking too much, if you can put some good words in for me on where you say my ad. I am on beardeddragon.org and faunaclassifieds as well and a few others. My id is - roachesrus.


Well SSgt. Young it has been a pleasure and an honor in helping you out and I hope I have earned your trust. And from one Marine to an other, I want to say thank you for your dedication to our country.

Siemper Fi

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Joshua Young <[email protected]> wrote:
I received the roaches today. All looks good....not many doa (just 4 cant complain there)

100+ small (thanks for the generous over count)
135 medium/lrg
9 females (1 died in transit so 8) Can be expected.


Just to be clear that I should be receiving another shipment sometime next week for the remaining 115 med/lrg roaches + any over count.

thanks .................


yeah and I am still waiting for that shipment and it is 5 months later

 

[OgleRpets]

We have colonies of both... I've yet to smell anything from my discoids so far. lol