Hey all.
I recently decided to join the band wagon and bought 10 adult roaches from the only place I could find them in the UK cheap; eBay.
The main reason I've bought some is because I'm leaving for Uni in September. My mother is taking over the feeding of my turtles and axolotls while I'm away, and I'll be coming back once a week/fortnight to clean the tanks and feed my Rainbow Boa (my mum is afraid of rodents* so I have to do this myself
).
*My mother will also kill me if she finds out they are roaches. I used a tip I learned from this board, and called them "jumbo crickets"
Anyway, that leaves my Tokay Gecko, and Savannah Monitor needing fed. Obviously I can throw the Sav some small mice when I'm back, but it's going to need lots of insects aswell inbetween which my mother is a bit picky about. I figured I could save some of my precious student cash by setting up a Dubia colony to feed them both.
My plan is to dump plenty of roaches in large china dogfood bowls in both my monitor and my gecko enclosures each time I come back. Being clumsy Dubias, they can't climb out the bowl and allow my lizards to pick them off at leisure.
Now here's the thing. I have 10 mature Dubias, which have yet to breed. Six females, four males. I'm starting to realise this is too few, and have found a good website selling lots of 10, 25 and 50 adults for reasonable prices.
What would be a good number of breeding adult Dubia to provide a consistant food source for a young Sav and an Adult Tokay?
Cheers,
Paul
I recently decided to join the band wagon and bought 10 adult roaches from the only place I could find them in the UK cheap; eBay.
The main reason I've bought some is because I'm leaving for Uni in September. My mother is taking over the feeding of my turtles and axolotls while I'm away, and I'll be coming back once a week/fortnight to clean the tanks and feed my Rainbow Boa (my mum is afraid of rodents* so I have to do this myself
).*My mother will also kill me if she finds out they are roaches. I used a tip I learned from this board, and called them "jumbo crickets"
Anyway, that leaves my Tokay Gecko, and Savannah Monitor needing fed. Obviously I can throw the Sav some small mice when I'm back, but it's going to need lots of insects aswell inbetween which my mother is a bit picky about. I figured I could save some of my precious student cash by setting up a Dubia colony to feed them both.
My plan is to dump plenty of roaches in large china dogfood bowls in both my monitor and my gecko enclosures each time I come back. Being clumsy Dubias, they can't climb out the bowl and allow my lizards to pick them off at leisure.
Now here's the thing. I have 10 mature Dubias, which have yet to breed. Six females, four males. I'm starting to realise this is too few, and have found a good website selling lots of 10, 25 and 50 adults for reasonable prices.
What would be a good number of breeding adult Dubia to provide a consistant food source for a young Sav and an Adult Tokay?
Cheers,
Paul
