How to Set Up a Dubia roach colony
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- How do you start a dubia roach colony? In this video I answer that question.
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Started my colony today with a little over 100 and just went to check on them and they are already mating! I only have one dragon so hopefully they will breed enough to feed him so I can quit buying them.
Thanks you the information you have on your channel.
If you have a breakfast place nearby, Waffle house, Huddle house, pancake place ect, make friends with a server drop a nice tip a couple of times then ask for some egg crate flats "for your/family member's chickens." XD They throw them out daily by the dozens.
Very nice! Thanks for the hook up
I've read used cartons can have contamination. Idk and I'm not an expert. But I've gotten nematodes and lost 2 tarantulas. Not from egg cartons, but it makes me weary of anything not new and or sterilized. But I will look into a way of sanitizing them. I'm sure it's do able. Thanks for the tip
@@Appalxhian don't use anything with "stuff on it" or looks wet. Mine are usually stacked and dry. Go through so many you can pick them right off the top of the cardboard only container. 30 mins in the oven on 200* and its good to go. I bake everything going in and freeze anything going out.
I thought this comment was going to go a completely different direction in regards to roaches lmfao💀
Not only is this video chalk full of info but the COMMENTS, UGH, you guys are so helpful 😭♥️
Happy we all helped
I get the egg crates from Amazon too, but I save my TP and PT tubes and those work just as good. I do water roaches with spray bottle and they Love that! I feed roach chow from BadAssBugs, fish food (specifically Wardley brand goldfish flakes, cuz my colony is picky af lol) plus any scraps of veggie and fruit. It’s crazy how fast they consume all of this. They’ll all be hiding then spray water or sprinkle food and they come outta the woodwork 😅
Yes I even keep the drink trays you get from McDonald’s 😂 those work great for them. Yeah sometimes a whole stick of carrot is gone in a day. They can eat.
This is helpful. Im only planning on havimg a smallish colony for my single bearded dragon.
Ordered 50 large Dubia with 100 medium so will have to go through the large and hope i have at least a few males and females.
This absolutely amazing!!!!! Go's I love your content you taught me how to set up a sustainable supee worm/beetle colony/colonies and keep it going!!! Also I wish you would do something on horn worms and that road 😅 god it's hard to get those guys to keep going... it's a SUPER HARD farm to start so maybe you could do that?
Death by sun snu. HAHA, Thank you for that reference.
Haha I’m glad someone liked it
One of the best episodes ❤😂
Dubia roaches and superworm bottles LOVE HAM!!! they Tear it up!!!! I put a piece in each one of my colonies one day and went back a few hours later and it was GONE!!! by far the fastest food i ever seen them eat...
Is ham okay to feed them if you’re feeding the roaches to a bearded dragon?
@FloppynoodlesXP i don't feed them the beetles lol just roaches I was talking about the suoerworm beetles that produce the worms. Sorry I didn't specify that. But yeah you can't feed them the superworm beetles. The exoskeleton is too hard for them to eat and they don't seem like they would be tasty lol
8:20 Holy hell you got a mini nuke, i love it !
Thank you 😊
After a few years my dubias start to have deformities. Male with ruined wings and smaller females and quicker deaths after maturity. Is inbreeding an issue?
Death by snoosnoo!! Lmao love futurama!! 😅
Haha thank you I was hoping someone would get it
What about the cleaner bugs? Do you need those?
Hi I love your video, I recently set up a woodroach colony, but after two weeks, I notice some dead woodies in the bottom of the container, is that normal or there's something wrong? mine is 120L container, have heat mat, dry and carrot, I bought nearly 1000 mixed size of woodies as starter as I wanna feed my reptile earlier.
I’ve read that citrus can be detrimental to reptiles when used to gut load feeders. Tho have also read that occasional vitamin C boost can be good. Not sure which is true so I avoid citrus and just include veggies and such in addition to the dry food (peppers have lots of vitamin c)
Citrus is ok and great for the feeders but you do want to wait a few days after feeding cause it does have some small side effects. So it’s kind of true but not that big an issue.
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse cool. Thanks. I’ve heard it boosts their mating but didn’t want to risk w any reptiles. So it’s good for feed not for gutloading
I started with 50f & 10m in 2020, then in 2022 I got about 750 more because I knew I can reproduce successfully, I’m excited to see what my colony looks like in 2025 lbvs.
Very exciting and that sounds like a huge colony!
How would you keep the colony in check regarding how many someone would want to have on hand? I have a bearded dragon dragon and a leopard gecko, so i dont want it to explode into a 1k. Or even close to that many. Lol
So im about 8 months into this and i saw my first baby get born and then i havent seen it since. Do theu eat their young? Do i need to separate them?
They CAN eat their young, if you don't supply enough food/moisture. Usually doesn't happen. But you're likely keeping them too cold if it took 8 months for you to get babies. They're doing great at the 80-90°F range.
Is it the same for discoids? (Florida)
Yes discoids like a little more dirt but I keep the discoids the same way
If I clean out the container, do I have to worry about egg loss?
Nope they actually keep the eggs inside there body and give live birth
I made the mistake of feeding all of my males off and then praying for males to come up from the nymphs. Roach Jesus heard my pleas and a few males came up and their daughters and sons are the colony I have today.
Hahaha I know that feeling
My son wants to start breeding for his beared dragon but I'm afraid they can get of here and around the house. Do they?
Oh no they can’t climb walls. They are also pretty dumb. You’ll be fine
Unless your house is really really warm, no reproduction will happen. They're most active in the 80-90°F area. They're only roach by name, they don't compare to cockroaches in kitchens.
Death by snu snu 😂
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So how often do you clean it out?
Bro he said once a month
I got a rescue baby today (beardie) and his cage smells so so so bad (he was given to me as a surrender) how the heck can I fix the smell pleaseeeeee send help
Give him a warm bath scrub his belly and skin with a soft tooth brush. Clean his tank out and scrub all his stuff from the tank. Will help. Beardies don’t stink. Something is causing the smell. Maybe old poop
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse that’s what I thought my boy has never had a scent! But I also don’t leave deuce in his tank at all! I will try this! Is there any safe cleaning products that can be used on his tank?
What's a legitimate website on where i can order these?
Dubiaroaches.com
At 4:39 are those leucistic or albino dubias? :0
Freshly molted. They darken up in a couple hours
How would I safely heat this if i don't have a heat source to piggyback off of?
I mean you don’t have to really they will still breed. Just slower but room temp you’ll still have success
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse Great. Thank you so much! I very much appreciate your videos and humor 🤩
I started my colony with about 50 females, and I would buy about 800 extra large dubias that were really close to adults, and when they became sexually mature my colony exploded, and each month I sort the babies from the breeders and its gotta be at least a thousand babies each time I sort.
I'm pretty sure that on average one female can give birth to about 125 babies a year on a conservative estimate, so if you had like 1000 females your roaches would produce 125,000 babies!
Hahaha and I thought I had too many that would be nuts! I love it
Started my colony today got like 16males and 64females gone be my first time ever growing roaches
Veryyyy good ratio to start with
My dubias eat eachother is that bad?
Sometimes when they don’t have enough food they do that or males competing for resources.
How many roaches are you supposed to feed a 4 month old bearded dragon day
I feed them around 5-15 depending on how much they will eat. I do have a feeding guide on my channel
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse well she’s 110 grams 14 inches long and she loves crickets and milworms but she eats like 100 crickets a day and I want to go to roaches cause I feel they are better I just don’t want to over feed her them
@@XxtoxicgoonxX ok so she’s a bigger girl for sure. I would say about 5 a day until she reaches 1 year of age then just once a week 1-2 raches
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse okay thank you
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse what size would you say
Howd the other male die?
Death by snu snu. Lol
I learned about water the hard way with my mini worms 🤮
Oof
ULINE has cheap egg crates
Thank you so much! 140 crates for $40 is an amazing deal!
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse shipping is about $20 (for me at least) but it still beats Amazon prices. No problem, glad I could help.
@@jacobpellow2485 yeah that still beats amazon
I started my colony around a year ago with 100 roaches and have thousands now
Right! I’m trying to get give them to friends for free now 😂
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse You could sell them at expos
I didn’t even think of that haha
@@ChiefSweetsUniverseI need some free roaches. I'll pay for shipping.
Doing research on cockroaches. May i ask why you are wanting cockroaches in your home?
As food for my bearded dragons 😂
I'm here learning how to not kill my Tarantula food. I'm not a fan on roaches but I love my T's. The things we do for our children.
me again u r now my bf butmy baby has a big puffy beard does that mean she is fat? im sorry i bug u this way
If it’s a puffy beard at the lower part of the neck may mean you are feeding her something that is not good for her thyroids. Like spinach but it could just mean she is fat lol
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