My Blaptica dubia Roaches Setup!

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Here's how I breed and raise my B. dubia roaches. My breeding bin started with 85 adult B. dubia roaches and 9 adult males. I do a 1/10 ratio on male to female. My excess males get fed to my Bearded Dragons or Ts. I started this colony from my original a little over a month ago. Had no nymphs, just adults, now I have, I estimate a couple thousand or more. I take them out after a couple of months and put them in feeder bins. If I get to many, I sell them off.

I use human heating pads underneath the bins hooked up to a thermostat to control the temps. Water gel for moisture along with veggie scraps and oranges once a week. You can use any high protein cat/dog food or anything else for that matter, there roaches. But, consider the health of your reptiles and inverts. What your roaches injest, your reptiles and inverts injest as well. I have 1½" ventilation holes on the upper sides and ends cover by metal mesh screen.

Easy maintenance. I go through about ½ oz of water gel a week with alI my roaches which include 4 sp. The great thing about roaches is that require very little maintenance. They don't bite, easy to handle, no smell or noise and the ones I raise don't climb or fly. It is so nice being cricket free, finally. I use roaches, supers or meal worms for my feedings, no crickets. Hope you enjoyed my roach breeding experience.

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[wolverine1865]

what are you keeping them in? i bought a 'taster pack' for my bearded dragon (had 25 medium ones in) just to see if he liked them, well since he does i want to try breeding them but i dont know how many i need to buy. also what heat source can i use to keep them warm, at the moment im not using anything as ive got them in a plastic storage box

[moose9900]

@wolverine1865 I keep my breeders in 73 qt (18g) Sterilite clear tubs, work great. I have lots of info on my website pertaining to B. dubia roaches. Heating pad or uth heat mat work well for heating. I don't use either due to volume of roaches I produce, I heat the room. Room temps of 70F or higher will suffice. Optimum breeding temps are 88F, but they'll still breed at lower temps, just slower.

[Fx4Ranger2002]

Is it even a good idea to keep these to feed to your reptiles? I bet if I had a colony like that for whatever reason they would be escaping all over the house.

[moose9900]

@Fx4Ranger2002 Based on my customers, new and repeat, I would say yes. If you house them correctly, you wouldn't have any escapes!

[WhiteStone30]

Quick question mate. I have 2 leopard geckos 1 adult and 1 juvi (planning to get a bearded dragon soon as well). I wanna breed roaches so how much would be perfect to begin breeding with im thinking maybe 50 roaches (mix sizes). What do you think?

[moose9900]

@WhiteStone30 It's hard to determine what's perfect to start with being there are many variables involved. If your not in a hurry for your colony to get going, then 50 mixed should do fine. Common feeder roaches like B. dubia take an average of 3-6 months to mature from newborn. Once female mature and get together with male, she can take another 6-8 weeks before producing 1st clutch of 20-40 nymphs. After the first about every 30 days thereafter.

[moose9900]

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[FKAsrv71420]

I have 4 toads that like to eat about 10-15 large crickets per day between the 4 of them. How many roaches would I want to buy? How do I know the sex of them? How does your water container keep those water gels in and not fall out the holes you have cut in the sides? If I just buy the water crystals are they reusable forever or do I need to buy more? How do I know when they are dry?

[340Dragons]

have a link on a really good human heating pad to use for these guys?

[moose9900]

@jessedragonheart I buy water crystal to make the water gel. All the information for preparation is posted on my website.