Lizards love dubia

[ajkry2]

Man, oh man... I've had Sahara for about a year. I fed her crickets for the first few months, then i heard about these dubia. So I gave it a shot, started a colony -- I'm so thankful I did! haven't spent a dime on feeders im 6-8 months :mrgreen:

then my colony started to get out of control. instead of selling some off (like i probably should have) i decided to get 2 baby leopard geckos (circe and calypso). they have eaten me out of house and home. they eat upwards of 20-30 babies/small nymphs a night! so now Sahara's eating all of my large nymphs/male adults, and the leos are eating all my babies/small nymphs.

so back to buying feeders... 1000 supers for sahara, 200 mealies for the leos, and as many adult dubia as i can get my hands on :lol:

the feeder runaround. i did NOT miss it

 

[Phoenix17June2009]

hahha i know what you mean!! we were buying some form of feeder every week and it does add up really quick! here's an idea for you though! This is what i did... i ordered i think 4 boxes total of dubia, two per bin which was around 1500 or more a bin... i left one bin alone for months... aside from food/water and cleaning i didnt touch them so they booooomed while i fed from the other bin, and now i have swapped out instead of my red bin i'm now using my blue... that way my sticky legged friends in the red box have some breeding time :silent: and i'm feeding from my blue! it has worked great so if you get your colony back up and running i would give it a shot this way! its really helped me a lotttttt

 

[ajkry2]

Great idea! When I'm all stocked up ik definitely try that

 

[Phoenix17June2009]

i hope it works as well for you as it has for me! of course the bin you arent using does go through a good bit more food and water crystals but hey whatever i need to do to not have to buy feeders lol!!!

 

[jeschardies]

Great idea! I have two beardies and wondered how my colony of dubia would hold up once its going. I do know that I don't want to buy feeders again and have also debated breeding supers to ensure my independence from the feeder buying world. I'll have to try this in a couple of months as my colony has just started hatching babies this month......