roaches

[Dits]

have to say that ive recently invested in dubia roaches, and i cant believe the difference in duckie's feeding habits (beardie).
hes been off crickets for a good while now eating the odd one, but has been making it up bu eating a load of greens and everything else that goes in that, but since eating the first roach he has gone nuts im having to buy more in so he doesnt try and diminish my colony!!!
glad to see him back to bugs tho, plus i love handling the roaches (bonus!!)

[spudsgirl]

I have never tried mine on roaches might have a go cause I know alot of peeps have succes with them. Are they easier to keep than locusts?

[Catherine896]

They are really easy to keep. There are a few threads in the feeder section at the moment.

Ive recently started my own colony and a few of my leos go mad for them! Refuse everything else offered now lol.

[Juzza12]

I have lobsters and my beardie and cwds all love them. They're really easy to keep spudsgirl. I've got mine in a storage tub with a heatmat under half of it. I've got some egg crate in there and i feed them fresh veg and a dry mix of cat food, wheat bran and ready brek. They have water gel crystals also and breed like mad

[spudsgirl]

Thanks guys I will put them on my next order with locusts give them a try.

Juzza al pm ya when a get them for help with the breeding thing am a little useless with stuff like that but will def give them a try.

Thanks peeps.

[Cockys Royals]

Yup roaches are good for beardies, I feed mine roaches about once a month.

[spudsgirl]

So you cant feed them roaches daily only as a treat?

[Jim2109]

Originally Posted by spudsgirl

So you cant feed them roaches daily only as a treat?

they are better nutritionally than crickets and locusts, and they gut load as well as crickets do without the high chitin factor of locusts. there is more meat to them. they are a superb staple food and can be fed exclusively. although variety is always good.

in the wild id imagine roaches are a very common food for many lizards. they are rife in just about every area of the tropics, from deserts to rainforests.

my water dragons will eat most things that move. they like crickets but i dont, they loved locusts. but roaches they just go nuts for. i bought 100 smalls from a shop, and then found someone selling 250 smalls. so last tuesday 350 Dubia roaches arrived on my doorstep. they lasted 6 days of feeding before they were all gone. between 3 baby water dragons, meaning they have eaten 19-20 roaches each per day!! compare that to their usual haul of around 7-8 locusts (granted these are larger than the roaches i was feeding) and about the same in crickets.

roaches are my favourite food source now, im breeding Turkistans and will be probably feed them around 70% roaches, 30% locusts. plus try and get some veg in there too, but they wont touch it because it doesnt move. maybe putting veg on top of roaches might work lol.

[Andi Mack]

Aggreed, roaches are a cracking staple food.

Species - Protein / Fat / Ratio
Dubia Roaches - 36% / 7% - 5.2 to 1 ratio
Crickets - 12.9% / 6.25% - 2.06 to 1 ratio
Locusts - 40% / 20% - 2.0 to 1 ratio

Mine 10 week old goes loopy for them, head bobs, arm waves and glass dances as soon as he see's me go in thier tub.

The little fatty is eating 70+ small dubia roaches a day (he has had nearly 100 today), as well as all of his veg.

Luckily he will also eat locusts (although he won't touch crix). So he has locusts on a weekend for a bit of variation.

[SandiskReptiles]

Roaches are AMAZING!

never had a beardie on them dont own abeardie yet! but my leos have roaches! my juvie cant get enough!