Hatchlings: Crix Vx. Dubia

[shinedown]

Okay, so when and if my girl ever lays her eggs, and they hatch, they are going to need a LOT of feeders. I was originally planning on just doing crix, but if I could do dubia, that would be better. My question is, how many nymphs daily will a hatchling eat? I know the standard rule of how ever many they can in a 15 minute time span, but I am looking for more of rough guess on what they average per day.

 

[TheWolfmanTom]

Every dragon is different.
I have 64 hatched right now. from 1 week old to 2.5 months. Im going thru 10 thousand crix a week...lol

 

[shinedown]

So how many dubia nymphs do you think they would go through? Would it be about the same as crix?

 

[TheWolfmanTom]

Yep

 

[shinedown]

So, let's just do the math... If you are to go through 10,000 dubia a week, that would be 40,000 a month (10,000*4). Now let's just average it out to one female dubia roach making 20 babies a month, I would need to get 2,000 female dubia (40,000/2000) to support the hatchlings that you have. Now if a female beardie can lay up to 140 eggs, I am looking at needing 4500 or so female dubia. Does this sound right?

 

[TheWolfmanTom]

I buy crix in large numbers....lol