Roaches as Food

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My jardini loves his roaches, the best way i found to keep them is in a plastic tub. what i did was cut a descent sized hole in the lid and glued screen in its place so theres good air flow an made sure the lid fit snug with extra use of some tape lol after handling them once or twice its nothing major and the fish love them. Trying to pellet train him now though so got rid of the colony lol
 
I have not tried it with my Black Arowana in the new aquarium room however my past Silvers used to eat freshly killed Roaches and being dead there was no threat of escaped roaches anywhere in the house. Which is normally the biggest concern found in the reptile community when feeding roaches to reptiles.
 
Roaches as well are extremely easy to gut load. You can gut load roaches what ever diet you want your arowanas to have and end up giving them a more varied and nutritional diet other than just one kind of prawns or pellets.
 
This has definitely not caught on to the Aquarium (Arowanas) keeping community like it has with reptile keepers.
 
Broski;4571752; said:
I don't think the prospect of having roaches in my house is very appealing, even if I get to watch them die by my fish. I think I'll stick to live fish with prepared foods tied to them.
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LOL.:ROFL:

Arowana1;4571817; said:
This has definitely not caught on to the Aquarium (Arowanas) keeping community like it has with reptile keepers.
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Might be due the size of the roaches?...Seems okay enough for small,young fish but with larger Aros the roaches could be more trouble than they are worth unless there are larger types that can be bred in a colony set up.
 
I used to feed my Silver Aro roaches when it was only 2 months; he loved it but also ate other stuff as well. I plan on introducting roaches one more, when it reaches a foot;currently at 11 inches; so within a month or so. Roaches are just nasty to deal with but if it makes the aro delightful, heck why not; we all like to dine out as well right?
 
I would raise dubia roaches they cannot climb glass and dont smell. my .02
 
krichardson;4575356; said:
LOL.:ROFL:


Might be due the size of the roaches?...Seems okay enough for small,young fish but with larger Aros the roaches could be more trouble than they are worth unless there are larger types that can be bred in a colony set up.
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My Madagascar roach colony has got adults that are twice the size of large feeder goldfish.
 
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