Dubai Roaches - Page 3

stoolpigeon · #21 (**permalink**) 06-05-2008, 05:07 PM

lol lol when it happened to me i thought i was seeing things
but dont worry about them lol it only happened a few times
since ive had them and thats ages
there well worth keeping,, very good grub,

piehunter · #22 (**permalink**) 07-05-2008, 02:30 PM

Are they easy to grab with tweezers? i just could'nt touch them, so it would have to be tweezers. I had an adult hissing roach once but you just could not pick it up with tweezers, they used to slide down the armour on its back.....ewwwwwww horrid creature

Carlie · #23 (**permalink**) 11-05-2008, 11:21 AM

I've recently been given about 15 of these guys by my vet to start my own colony. Mr Frilly Billy has the onset gum disease, apparently attributed to the fact that he hasn't had enough 'chewy' foods, and the vet has advised introducing these roaches in to his diet.

However, I was also advised that they are very fattening and that I should only give him a few a week. If this the case, then I'd be worried to hear of anybody using them as an exclusive food source.

Unfortunately, I still have to buy all the nasties as well - crickets, meal/super worms / locusts, etc., but what I wouldn't give for these roaches to be the complete package! They are indeed ace in many ways and I find it hard to sacrifice any of them.

Yes, the buggers do jump, they're not that slow and they can certainly climb out of cricket tubs, but aside from that, they're very well behaved, they don't smell or make much of a mess and they don't really fuss when you move them about.

Schip · #24 (**permalink**) 11-05-2008, 12:17 PM

I've feed all my beardeds babies included on roaches rather than crickets and no mealworms, without problems an adult dubia is a larger meal than an adult cricket so they ate less of them but grew just as well without getting fat.

It's corny but.. · #25 (**permalink**) 11-05-2008, 04:22 PM

yeah theyre not fatty..

LauraMartin · #26 (**permalink**) 13-05-2008, 02:30 AM

Carli, are u sure its dubias u have and not lobsters or another roach kind? because in my experience dubias do not jump or climb at all. they certainly cant even stand up against the smooth plastic tub never mind climb it.

and i have heard the opposite of them being fattening, read many care sheets saying they are very nutritious and can be used as a staple diet, although i still have crickets and locusts too to mix it up.

Brat · #27 (**permalink**) 13-05-2008, 03:01 AM

They're great as a staple food.. Expensive to start off with but get a colony going and in the end you become self sufficient therefore spend less.
Unfortunately only two of my beardies like the roaches so I'm still buying Locusts for Shenzi lol.. D'oh

andie · #28 (**permalink**) 13-05-2008, 07:53 AM

Mine will only eat lobsters, damned annoying when ive got 1000's of Dubias

But yea Laura is right about them climbing, the best ive seen is a baby Dubia scrambling up the silicon at the sides of a viv.And yea there fine as a staple food but variety is the spice ....

Carlie · #29 (**permalink**) 13-05-2008, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LauraMartin

Carli, are u sure its dubias u have and not lobsters or another roach kind? because in my experience dubias do not jump or climb at all. they certainly cant even stand up against the smooth plastic tub never mind climb it.

and i have heard the opposite of them being fattening, read many care sheets saying they are very nutritious and can be used as a staple diet, although i still have crickets and locusts too to mix it up.

We're talking about these guys, aren't we? If so, then definitely Dubias.

Up until a couple of weeks ago I'd never even seen one and I know very little about them aside from what my vet has said. And, yep, I've had one have a go at jumping (male), though they are mostly very placid and well behaved. The tub one of them climbed up had air holes in, so there would have been places for foot holds, rather than it having the ability to climb up glass like locusts can. They're very good at sticking to kitchen paper though.

I hear / read conflicting information regarding food every day, so it's hard to know what to believe. The vet I use is a specialist reptile vet, whom I've been going to for the last 10 years. He's very thorough and isn't adversed to handing out a telling off if he thinks you're not doing things right.

I'll ask again exactly what he thinks of these roaches and his recommendations for feeding. They keep and breed them at the practice, so they must hold them in high enough regard, but if he still thinks they're not good as a staple food source, I'll ask him to explain why so I can pass the info on.

I would more than love for them to be good enough to be fed regularly rather than other creepy crawlies.

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