Dubia Sorting

[Travis1102]

Hi All,

I bought a Dubia starter colony locally (at least hundreds of mixed sizes with a lot of adult females / males) almost 2 weeks ago and the colony is going great. I have a huge supply of small nymphs up to larger ones, some too big for my baby beardie or geckos.

I'm wondering if any of you pros can give me tips on how best to sort out the smaller size roaches for feeding to my lizards. They are all in a big 22 gallon plastic tub with egg flats and it's near impossible to catch just the little ones by hand!

 

[Onlymediocre]

You can get u a 5 gal bucket (or something else to hold all of them) and drill holes the size of the ones u want (want 1/4" drill 1/4" holes) shake them ALL into the bucket (of course have the bucket over a bin or something) and shake shake shake, the small ones will fall thru the holes into the bin underneath...need 1/2" ones? get a 2nd bucket and drill 1/2" holes... and just do a 2nd shaking to separate them... etc etc.. Pretty easy. and you dont have to touch them... hardest part is shaking them off those egg cartons, they tend to hold on pretty well... But overall way easier than having to pick thru

 

[CNS]

You will want to drill smaller holes than you need. A 1/2" dubia may be that long, but they will crawl through a 1/4" hole with no problem head first.

 

[Buckmaster299]

^^^^ that is very true. I leaned this the hard way. also make sure you put PLENTY of holes in the bottom of the bucket. otherwise i found it hard to get them to shake out of the bottom. it took forever. LOL