Going to be getting Dubias soon...

[halffrozen]

I got my Beardie on Friday, and he only came with 20-40 Dubias(I honestly, have no idea)

I have 500 coming in in the next few days. But I am wondering if Dubia's are THE EASIEST thing to keep. From what I can tell they are, and I plan on taking 2/3 of this new batch and put them in a feeders bin and then trying to get the remains 1/3 to breed, and not touch them besides feeding for a few months.

So, are they?

 

[Boss12]

Super easy to keep. Just give them water crystal, food and egg crates to hide in. They're super durable. I have 1000 right now in a feeder bin and I bought a complete breeding kit from Twobeardie guy on the forum. They will need to be full sized adults to breed. Breeding is a little bit more work. You must keep them heated. I use a sunbeam human heating pad with NO auto shutoff. It keeps them at 85 degrees or so. No need to spray the tank if you use water crystal. You'll want some decent humidity to keep them molting in healthy fashion. Honestly if you want to breed them Twobeardie guy has a great complete kit. I ordered extra females so now I have 3-4 males with 15 females. This keeps a low stress level and high yield on breeding. I recently had success leaving them oranges or melons every few days. It promotes "the mood" :mrgreen:

 

[halffrozen]

Super easy to keep. Just give them water crystal, food and egg crates to hide in. They're super durable. I have 1000 right now in a feeder bin and I bought a complete breeding kit from Twobeardie guy on the forum. They will need to be full sized adults to breed. Breeding is a little bit more work. You must keep them heated. I use a sunbeam human heating pad with NO auto shutoff. It keeps them at 85 degrees or so. No need to spray the tank if you use water crystal. You'll want some decent humidity to keep them molting in healthy fashion. Honestly if you want to breed them Twobeardie guy has a great complete kit. I ordered extra females so now I have 3-4 males with 15 females. This keeps a low stress level and high yield on breeding. I recently had success leaving them oranges or melons every few days. It promotes "the mood" :mrgreen:

Great! Thank you for the reply.

Where is a good place to get the egg flats from? Cheap too, I see some VERY different pricing on high and low quantity egg flats.

Thanks!

 

[Boss12]

I got mine from JDRoaches on this forum. He's who I buy my feeders from $45 shipped with a heat pack. A couple shipments with 0 DOA. $2 for 3. 3 is plenty for 1000 small.

 

[halffrozen]

My bin is complete!

I actually still need heat tape to mount the UTH to the side where the "homes" are.

 

[XiDiS]

Nice looking setup... i wish dubia roaches werent such a pain to get a hold of in canada.

 

[unkempt1]

EASY on those water crystals haha! :lol:

 

[halffrozen]

Got prolly close to 50 FREE egg crates!

 

[halffrozen]

EASY on those water crystals haha! :lol:

I got a bit carried away! lol

 

[unkempt1]

Where did you get the egg crates? Just make sure they don't have pesticides or formaldehyde in them! It will kill a colony QUICK. I know from personal experience.

 

[halffrozen]

Where did you get the egg crates? Just make sure they don't have pesticides or formaldehyde in them! It will kill a colony QUICK. I know from personal experience.

Local restaurant, I would hope they don't! Now sure how I could tell if they do or not.

 

[unkempt1]

Just ask them. They should know.

 

[halffrozen]

Just a little update on how many Dubia's I will have soon.. lol I already have a tad bit less then 500 1/8"-1/4" some a almost 1/2" but VERY few.. like 5 or 6... lol but I have those NOW... I have 30 females and 12 males on order which will be here tomorrow, and now I have 1000 mediums coming in mid next week!! :O

I am thinking I may be needing another bin, correct? Would like to hear peoples opinions on that... It will be close to around 1500 mid next week. I have everything to start another bin... so I am just wondering if I should maybe add like... 100 smalls and then put the males and females in with them to breed and then have another bin dedicated to feeders.

I worry about over crowding really.