Legal Feeders for Canadian Residence

[AlexZander]

Just wondering if anyone in Canada can confirm that Dubia Roaches are illegal here in Canada, and what feeders you use besides crickets. I have about 200 crickets here in a big tote with a screen on top but can't handle the smell. I've heard a lot about the roaches, but I have also heard a lot about how we cannot get them shipped here... Any recommendations for us Canadian Beardie Owners (CBO's)???
Thanks!

 

[CooperDragon]

Dubia Roaches are considered an invasive species and are not legal to have in Canada without special permission. I believe you can get silk worms and horn worms and black soldier fly larvae there so that may be an option in addition to the stinky (I agree!) crickets. You may be limited by distributors. Perhaps some of the other Canadian folks on here can chime in with some first hand advice along those lines.

 

[Romicron]

Canadian here. The Dubia roach band is really, really, really annoying.

I use crickets, but there are certain things that I do to mitigate the smell.

I have a commercial keeper with the feeder tubes so that most of them crawl in there instead of being in the open, which helps to contain the smell a bit. After each feeding, I wash the tube out with soap and water, rinse it thoroughly, and dry it out before I put it back in, and I try to make sure that I cycle each tube so that they get cleaned out on a regular basis.

I use paper towel as cricket substrate to absorb the moisture / sweat (I also noticed that once I started doing this, I had far fewer cricket deaths). it smells really bad for the 45-60 seconds to get the crickets off of it and toss it, but I can hold my breath for that long.

The only one I haven't figured out is the actual cage washout; however, I feel that I can deal with that 1-2 times a week if I mouth-breathe. If you breathe 100% through your mouth, you won't smell anything unless the smell is strong enough to taste. Try it sometime.

Not the ideal answer, but not the ideal laws.

 

[AlexZander]

Ill try the papertowel. But i have switched to a big blue tote bin so i could make less trips to the pet store and house more crickets for longer so im hoping something will just magiclly happen to either get rid of the smell or change so I can get roaches