Roachesss..

[Cee]

I am looking to start my colony up for my bearded dragon. I saw an ad on craigslist, saying that they will be willing to sell 200 roaches for 50 dollars, this will include 10 females, and 10 males. I was wondering if this would be a good deal?

 

[dmglakewood]

10 adult males and 10 adult females?

You should see if he could do 14 females 6 males. A 1:1 ratio of adult males to adult females will not go over well. From my experience too many males stress the ladies out. 50$ isn't too bad but it's not the best by any means. I've purchased 300+ roaches (30 of which are adults) for 45$ shipped. Just do a lot of looking around, feeder sites, ebay, craightslist, forums etc. You can find a better deal, but it might take a little bit of effort.

P.S. I'm assuming you mean dubia roaches correct?

 

[Cee]

Yes, dubia roaches.. Okay. thank you!

 

[Trogdorpheus]

Actually pretty decent prices.

I'd call around to locally owned reptile shops or exotic pet stores. Maybe even regular mom n pop pet stores too. I found a local "Pets and Reptiles" kinda place by me, and I bought 200 discoids for $45, the kicker is that I got like 90 adults, 15-20 of my nymphs were adults within a week n a half, and I had my first batch of babies within 4 days. Within 2 1/2 weeks the number of babies has gone up to 90+ easily (probably more but they're getting hard to count lol).