How to Keep and Breed Blaptica dubia Roaches - Part II

This is a video I made awhile back and just recently took the time to split and put onto YouTube. It's a little outdated with some of the methods I use but is still a good base for anyone looking to start there own colony. One thing I want to point out is that I do not add juice to the water crystals anymore. They were accumulating mold too fast when I did that. Plain water is just fine.

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Pets & Animals

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• bugs
• roaches
• blaptica dubia
• feeders
• reptiles
• lizard
• gecko
• monitor
• chameleon
• care
• breed
• how to
• set up

[jackrussellova]

they fly they look like they have wings

[jerseytimebomb]

@jackrussellova No they don't fly. The males can flutter for a second but that's it. The females don't have wings.

[ihagtafuith]

Great video, I just started a dubia colony a few weeks ago and I love them, hate crickets. Hey whats the name of the song at the end where you feed your tegu?

[jerseytimebomb]

It's a song my Apocolyptica called "O Fortuna"

[jackiedogster]

Will they eat their babies? Do you separate them?

[jerseytimebomb]

No to both

[todomoho]

Can they crawl up those walls? i have seen those same bins in walmart so far im having trouble keeping them contained.

[fifeplaster]

the females will be plumper and shinney as to the duller nymphs

well thats how i do it

[Dman1889]

can you please tell me how you tell the diference between females and large nymths? please reply cuz im trying to convince my mom to let me bring roaches in the house haha

[Reptiledictionary225]

How much was the 5O gallon rubbermaid container?

[Reptiledictionary225]

The lizard at the end looked like he was trying to bash the roaches head in

[SimoonSam]

@Kjuice7750 Not if the container is tall with smooth walls. They can only flutter forward. They hardly get any lift. It's more of a short hop that they use mostly for display purposes when confronting another male. A cricket jumping has more potential to escape a container than a dubia. A tall, smooth wall is more than enough to keep them contained.

[jackrussellova]

yeah true i had two in my house they went down not up and the ones that have no wings are usually with eggs

[Kjuice7750]

if the males can flutter cant they escape?

[FishTank4Life]

notice at the start the black is the stupidest

[tokay999]

hey so you just leve them alone in the cage and they will breed .... you dont have to separate them ?