Freezing roaches

[Mike D]

Quick question. This is just an idea that my dad and myself were tossing around last night when I stopped up to check on my reps up at there house.

We were talking about feeding my herps and stuff and he brought up the idea of freezing roaches and adding them to my lizards food when my brother and him feed them.
Is this a logical thing to do? I know you can buy frozen rodents and freeze dried insects to feed to reps and stuff. Would regular freezing work as well? I have a ton of roaches and only a few herps that will eat them regularly. So this would also help keep the population down as well

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Hmmm....I'm not sure if this would work well or not. I do know that freeze-dried foods lose a lot of their nutrition from being dehydrated.

 

[Mike D]

I know I would loose some nutrition but I can add suplements to help with that.

Maybe I will try it with a few and see how it works. It would be nice if it did

 

[meghanashley]

Try it. I freeze all different types of insect larve, only thing I've come across that does not defrost well are earth worms, I think it's due to their lack of a hard exoskeleton.

Freeze drying takes away nutrition, anyone know if just freezing and defrosting depletes it of nutrition? Does it matter the time that it's frozen?

 

[varanio]

Hey mike freeze drying and actual frozen in the freezer are a little different. And yes you can freeze them in the freezer and lose little nutrition in the process. The only two things is getting the monitors interested in the smell when that familiar smell lacks movement like it use to when you fed live. The other thing is to make sure you freeze just after feeding so the roaches are gut loaded. Will this convince the gf to keep the auffenbergi at the new place? Lol

 

[Mike D]

Don't know lol. I hope so. She hates feeding time lol. But I figure if freezing will work then I can just get a seperate freezer for my feeding stuff. She doesn't mind them its the whole feeding thing lol. She came to my parents yesterday and as soon as she saw me going for the roach tank she went the other way lol.

I hope they will go for the thawed roaches. They go for thawed pinkies all the time. Those, thawed turkey, cooked egg and such they will eat from there bowl. And they have eaten some pheonix worms from there bowl before and those don't move to much. I will probably try mixing the roaches in with the mice at first, and slowly go to just roaches, maybe that will work.

I told her its either the monitors or the rhino igg lol. She really doesn't like the rhino and he's not to fond of her. He will be over eating from my hand and as soon as he sees her he charges lol. Its weird

 

[varanio]

Iguanas attach to the opposite sexed human often ( don't know if that holds alot of validity) but that means your rhino is a girl hAhahaha

 

[Mike D]

Could be true lol. I was hoping it was a male. But I will take female. Finding a mate should be easy if I want to in the future.

I'm going to try and find out the sex soon. Haven't bothered to look in a while

 

[G-Code]

This post reminds me of back in the day when I used to go fishing in Mississippi. We would collect target worms (black, yellow and white catepillar looking worm) off of Target worm trees. We would put them into a brown paper bag and freeze them. The funny thing is... they would defrost and come back to life. I'm willing to bet that roaches are the same way. They say that roaches will survive a nuclear fallout. It's worth a try to find out, but I wont be trying because I find roaches to be disgusting!!! lol let us know how it works out for you.

 

[LRM]

This post reminds me of back in the day when I used to go fishing in Mississippi. We would collect target worms (black, yellow and white catepillar looking worm) off of Target worm trees. We would put them into a brown paper bag and freeze them. The funny thing is... they would defrost and come back to life. I'm willing to bet that roaches are the same way. They say that roaches will survive a nuclear fallout. It's worth a try to find out, but I wont be trying because I find roaches to be disgusting!!! lol let us know how it works out for you.

Oh no, these fellas are not frost tolerant. All roaches kept and bred for exotics are tropical. And yea, it'll work just fine.