How to set-up a Dubia Roach Colony
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- How to set-up a Dubia Roach Colony
This is how we set-up our Dubia Roaches for a successful breeding colony , here we will share some of the tips and practices we do to maintain our colonies and breed in large numbers .
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There are a lot of people creating and posting videos on spiders. Dave so far has the best content. He does not add flush, he is educational, keeps things simple and he is friendly. Please keep it up sir and keep'em coming.
Thank you really appreciate your support y friend ❤️👍
I was having this conversation in the pet shop the other day and the guy even agreed. Daves the man 💪🏻
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@@deansartorelli564 WOW what pet shop was you in 😂👍
What size tubs are u using
@@stephengoad4226 They are 70 ltr tubs 👍
I like how their little feet sound😍
Local pet shop had just a few in stock the other day. Bought them all (probably about 100) and hope to set them up and get them breeding eventually. This was really helpful.
This is gonna be one of those "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" situations with my landlord lol
What momma don't know , won't hurt her,lol
I adore dubias, I feed the small ones to my green anole and my smallest tarantula and my big tarantula, pacman frog, and leopard gecko like the bigger ones. I've only ever bought them and never actually bred them but I'm planning on trying to breed them soon. I breed superworms and mealworms though but I just find that dubias are easier to deal with and they're great feeders and very docile too. I sometimes will take out the biggest ones and hold them and just admire them because I think they're really neat looking and the full adults are too big for my animals to eat anyway
They're great. Give breeding a shot! they do grow slowly so take your time, but once you have your colony going its rewarding.
Thank you, I love your videos! This has been helping me get over my roachaphobia, I have been feeding my juvenile worms, since it’s been a little hard finding dubia here.
Glad your finding it useful
Thank you, i'm in the process of setting up my first Dubia Roach colony and this was very helpful.
Trigger warning: Literal thousands of insects climbing over each other in a plastic bin. Great ASMR. =D
Great feeders but geez I never get over the sound of a Dubia colony 😂 all the hairs on my body stand straight up every time I go in my “insect closet”
Dave I love your videos. Also you have way more patience than myself. Sorry if i’m an arse but how many times can people ask the same question??? Apparently a lot!!
Public Service Announcement: Audience please try watching the video and then reading some of the previous comments before posting questions that he has already answered multiple times.
For reference:
•It is Wheat Bran flakes in the bottom of the tub. Any horse feed store will have it.
•He feeds the Dubias greens once a day or every other day depending on how the roaches respond to them. Any greens mix will do.
•He also keeps chicken pellets in the tub at all times for the roaches main food source. Any brand chicken pellet will suffice.
Thank you and have a nice day.
Lol
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Thanks for the video. Super helpful. I definitely feel confident I can manage a Dubia colony now.
Crickets are starting to annoy me so I'm gonna start a dubia roach colony. Hoping it goes well. Hate taking frequent trips to the pet store
Same here bro
I live in Wisconsin U.S My local pet store sells ONE large Dubia for $0.50 usdc. At that price, I'm starting my own colony 😀 Thank you for the great information keeping Dubia roaches, I appreciate it!
Stumbled across this channel and video while on my hunt for a way to provide food for my leopard geckos that doesn’t completely destroy my bank (I have 6 now with my breeding project so understandably it gets a little expensive). I immediately fell in love with the tone and educational aspects of your videos. Thank you so much!
Thank you and welcome to our channel ❤️👍
I have like 500 adults ... using the large ones (not full wings and female nibs) for food but I have a few full adults and watching this to start breeding so I don’t have to keep buying food ... I didn’t know I would ever keep part time pets for my pets lol (having to take care of the food is like a mini pet)
Its a job in itself thats for sure but well worth the small effort required 👍
Appreciate the advice definitely going to give it a shot I had to start new colonies since I fed my old ones off to the 80 baby monitors I just had hatch
It’s nice to see how far the room has come as well 👏🏻👍
Thanks for the video. Ventilation and keep it heated can be opposing ideas if you don't heat the whole room. Got them in the garage with a heat pad on either side. Garage drops to 60 in winter at night. Got to cover the top vent just to get it up to 80.
That tub full of roaches sounds just like a summer rainstorm. Just as I wrote this, Camera Lady said it too.
One important thing to keep in mind is allergy. Dubias can give you really nasty allergy and breathe problems. I’ve got it after a couple of years and if I don’t use gasmask when handling Dubias I can barely breathe. So... Do NOT breathe the dust and avoid handling them with your hands!
This is the first time hearing of this don’t plan to keep reptiles and arachnids anytime soon but will remember this in a couple years
This Channel should have Well over 100k subs tbh! Wonderful content m8! Keep it up
Thank you so much my friend we never know where this will all go 😂👍
1450 subs but he has great community. That's the most important thing. I hope he will get more ppl on his channel while maintaining the same community.
Sir you are an amazing teaching. Thank you.
So nice of you
For the record I ment to say teacher.
Great video, Dave. Just friended you on Facebook as well. My son just got his first Bearded Dragon and where we live it's not easy getting a good, consistent supply of Dubia. Shipping them in by Fedex is okay for now but we'd rather breed them ourselves. We like the more natural bedding and feeding/hydration approach so looking forward to learning a lot from you as we try to set up our own breeding colony at some point.
Welcome to the channel Joanna, setting up your dub colony is very straight forward just keep them warm and in the dark food on tap and you wont be able to stop them 😂👍
This video was very helpful. Started my colony up maybe 1/3 of the way through 2022, and my Colony of dubias is thriving a little too well now 😅I'm primarily feeding them off to Tarantulas and scorpions, so the dubias aren't being eaten anywhere near as often as a reptile would eat them. But thank you for the video, Dave! This really helped me set up a strong tub for my feeders to thrive in! It's peace of mind and wallet having a readily available food source for my T's.
Cool them down to slow the breeding 👍
And maybe set up a listing somewhere that you‘re selling cheap dubias.
thank you this was very helpful i ordered 20 roaches today and im thinking to start a colony to feed my ants!
all good ?
@@autimso7169 the order got delayed lol so idk yet
Am wanting to start breeding roaches myself and this video was phenomenal
Thank you ❤️👍
I love roaches.
It's time you get some Periplaneta species. :D
Thank you have, I can't wait to start my colony after watching your videos. It cleared up all my questions.
Best of luck!
You can do a lot of different things. While not being as hardy as the kitchen variety of cockroaches, they're very hardy creatures and can handle a mistake. While Dave does everything right, there are a lot of approaches that are also right. I've fed fish food, dog food, cat foot, rodent food and most things in between. I personally don't use anything as a bottom layer because of them burying in it. I don't have the space for the extra tub to get out the burrowed ones and don't feel like sorting them out manually either. But it's a great way to deal with moisture.
We all should just take a moment and realize what a wonderful wife he must have lol ...To let him keep those huge roaches in their home. I would be absolutely screaming and afraid.
Love the vids. Keep it up!! 🙂
You are so kind
Its cool to see how other people keep these. I started with 20 adults and keep mosta the tub dry but I give them a section of damp spagnum moss near there water dish and the females love it for laying in so they started breading right away, there was no waiting. I'm cheap aswell lol so I just put them on top of the hot side of one of my snake vivs and it keeps the temps nice and warm for them:)
The idea of having any roach in my home let alone something that large really is a a no go for me lol.
amazing videos. I probably gonna order my dubia roach now, and use this video as a guideline. Thank you so much.
Glad to be of help my friend 👍
How often do you add the greens? Very excited to try and start a colony with your techniques. Best I've seen so far! Thank you for sharing. 😀
The greens are only there to hydrate the roaches you can get away with every 3 days no problem👍
Good to see a professional doing it.
Thanks 👍
I salute you Sir cause I have roaches and no way in hell am I letting one of them touch me!! Yuck! haha tongs all the way here!
Talk about lucky! I have just been coming to the realization that I would need to start a dubia colony and here this video is! Thank you Dave for such great info!!
Thank you 🙏
I really need to see this. Been getting a lot of conflicting husbandry.
Really cool sound when they were all rustling around
I see a red runner randomly got into your dubia colony as well. I see yours is a full grown male with wings mine was a breeder female. Nice informative video. Lol just as I'm typing this you mentioned the red runner. Watching from Upstate Ny
Looked like a German roach to me. But I'm not sure if they are not the same thing.
Great video, still shudder though
Thanks to you and the wonderful camera lady
It’s great watching your channel grow
Thanks for your support 👍❤️
Is that a spider on the wall on the right hand said top of door way?
Hello Dr. Beastie, first off thanks for all you do. You’re a breath of fresh air! In regards to the dubia, I started a colony and they look healthy and robust but it doesn’t appear that they are eating much if at all. It’s a Rubbermaid (sweater size?) tub with milky plastic. I’ve done the oat bran, the egg cartons, the veg, greens, etc. heat mat on bottom, thermostat set to 35 Celsius (thermometer doesn’t reflect that though). Ventilation holes drilled in lid. I’m totally miffed. Hope things gives you an idea and if you can recommend anything I’d be forever in your debt. Who would have thought I’d have a harder time keeping dubia than tarantulas lol
Turn your heat down. keep around 75-80f and put it on the side at the back where your egg crate is , they can sometimes take a while to kick off 👍
I totly agree with 4-5months if started with a few dubs
Love ur videos even years later
Have you done a vid on the fruit fly cultures too ?
Love these videos, i know ive said it before, but your channel is so straight to the point, no fannying about like alot of the other channels, and for people like me who have a attention span of a nat i can watch these all the way through, and also like that you dont try to make the spiders out as underworld stuff with dark music etc, thank you
I think we need to do a fruit fly video👍
@@daveslittlebeasties That would be awsum, thank you Dave
Brilliant video I'm definitely setting up my own breeding
You will save a fortune mate 👍
I finally after so long, the adults have laid nymphs. Ive been looking and looking and today, i put some orange slices in to make them horny up a bit.. Then i look on top of the crates, and heres a lil bugger the size of a eraser on a pencil and white as paper. I just smiled. Makes me happy. I was misting, but had a mold issue, and that is when i started using orbies only.
Thank you for this video! I was trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Got it sorted now!😊
Glad to be able to help👍👍
Spectacular video! I plan to switch my pets from crickets to dubias. What did u poor as the substrate for them? Is that vermiclular?
Wheat bran
What are you feeding your roaches? Chicken Pellets (from garden store)? And lettuce for hydration? Daily handfuls?
That's A LOT of Dubias haha, very informative video. Keep it up !!! I love Dubias now, they are very clean.
Morning mate yes they are very clean and great food.👍
@@daveslittlebeasties I buy some next week. nice video
Just FYI to anyone who might wanna breed or keep roaches, there is a high possibility of getting an allergy or even asthma😨 To be less exposed you should wear gloves, a filter-mask and glasses that seal against your face:)
I was planning on doing this for my bearded dragon but I don’t want to run into any health issues 🤦🏽♂️
There were some lateralis in there too just wandering around with the dubias 😂
What was the bran stuff he put in there at the bottom?
Not sure how I’m able to watch this while eating my lunch like it’s nothing 😂😂😂
I literally just spent about $20 on “roach chow” to feed the colony I’m attempting to start and I have over 100lbs of lay pellet in my garage for our chickens. 🤦♂️
😂😂😂 now you know 👍👍👍👍
why is this a thing?
Thanks for the info. Now to start the colony!
I would love to know where you get all your supplies from. Maybe you can post some links. Around here a 50 lb bad of wheat bran is going for $35 and up, and most of the feed stores to not carry it at all.
This is what I’m trying to find out. I’m new to all of this and don’t even know where to begin or what everything is called.
If you are in the US I got mine from Tractor Supply. It was in the back so you have to ask for it. It was a 50lb bag for $15.
Great video Dave! I will have to get a colony going thanks for the info!
What do you line the cockroach cage with underneath, something that absorbs moisture from the waste they produce?
Just regular cleaning
This is the first video I’ve seen where someone actually uses something at the bottom
I keep getting fruit flies and I have a feeling this might help
Thanks for the guide! I've set up my Dubia like this. It's been running for almost six months. I want to change out the bran to give them something fresh. I tried to do this last week, but there were soooo many in the bran and I couldn't sift them out. Do you have any tips or tricks? Otherwise I'll be plucking them out for hours. Thanks again!
You can leave some egg crate in with old bran for a day or 2 and they will crawl up on it then just check through the bran 👍
Thank you for the video. I am going to start a colony now.
What I find really interesting is that I never see one of the easiest watering systems for roach bins. I'm not English native and I can't find a good translation, so I'll try to describe it. You just take some container with a lid, drill one hole in the lid and pull a wick through and fill the container with water. The wick will always stay moist, humidity doesn't go up, because the wick doesn't have enough surface area for lots of evaporation and they have water for a pretty long time. My roaches use it without an issue and whenever the wick is dirty, I just pull out some more and cut off the top. Of course the material should be free from chemicals. Also great if you're away for a couple of days.
Maybe give it a shot if you haven't tried it before. I'm sure some people will find issues with it, but it has been working great for me and I usually don't see it in setup videos
Absolutely brilliant and very effective. However, any non-degrading substance (things like fruits and veg), will become another moist/warm environment for bacteria. If you were to have a "wick" of say a piece of cotton wool or something similar attached to your water container, I would bet within 24-48hrs, it will be loaded with bacteria and mold, which requires you to replace both the wick and the water container as any water would also be potentially tainted. I personally prefer polymer gel. I can add a teaspoon into a glass, add RO water, then just put it on a dish. It holds moisture well enough that humidity isn't a big concern, but it also dries fast enough that it won't harbour bacteria and mold. Also, if you have a dish, you can recover the crystals, boil them, and re-use them, but they're so cheap I just throw em out.
Very well explained, quick easy straight to the point, good info. Thank you
Hi Dave, do the little black bugs that eat the eggs also appear in Dubia? Or are they only found in red runners? I watch your videos again and again and I'm still learning and improving. Greetings from the Czech republic...
You can find hem in all roach colonies 👍
Omg I have been doing things so wrong.
Thank you so very much for this accurate and great information my colony should be better.
Ps. Your Roaches look beautiful
Do they not get smashed when you bang the egg carton around in the bin?
No they are very hardy
Landlord reaction to my dubia colony "Are you crazy?" 😀😉
😂😂😂😂
Hi, I just have a few questions for you if you wouldn't mind answering. What brand of Wheat bran flakes do you use? How many gallons or size is your totes and brands? Thank you also this video helped a lot.
I use 75 litre bins and the bread I get from local horse yard any bran will do its all the same wheat bran
This was a great informative video! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I've been breeding dubia for several years now but I've never used substrate. Unfortunately that may have contributed to the allergy I now have to them. I'm wondering if the bran substrate or maybe even soil would help keep that dust down so I can keep them. I really enjoy watching them and my hissers it makes me mad that I can't be around them. I see you cleaning this out in an enclosed room but I can't even do it outside without reacting to cleaning. Think the bran helps with this?
Yes the bran helps keep them dry and clean but wont stop the dust when I clean them out
Hey Kristin, I was curious if you breed only for your own use or if you sell as well? I have a few colonies going and have some excess I have been wanting to profit from. Thanks for your time and I will be sure to watch out for allergies.
@@isaiahcalhoun822 I do sell. I have found out that using the dirt substrate does help a bit with reducing the airborne frass as I am not sneezing nor have itchy eyes as bad every time I open the lid. Find local groups for reptiles on Facebook and let folks know you have some available.
Great content, I plan to do this for my bearded dragon
My lizard gizmo thanks you
Some great info in that Dave, been trying for a while and u have cleared up where I’m going wrong 👌
Glad to help to help my friend 👍
What do you do if the colony gets bigger than you want? I want to start one but I only have six reptiles and I don’t think they could keep up with the pace
You can just cool them down and they will stop breeding 👍👍👍
This is something I want to know more about, if my tarantula like roaches of any species which is something they haven't had before but if they eat them, I'd like to get into breeding my own for feed💯🕷🖤🖤🖤 wicked video dave n camera lady!
1:09 roach ASMR.
Nice one mate, best Dubia video I've seen yet. Every other video I've seen says to spray them down and provide a water source, it didn't seem right to me so I'm glad to see the way you do it, very clean and dry. I breed ball pythons and rats currently but I'm looking to start breeding various gecko and spider species and want to grow my own happy meals. This video really helped, thanks! Where do you get the egg crates?
Cheers buddy I get the egg crate from Amazon
Did you add the stuff in the bottom or did it just build up over the months? I have the same setup except I dont have anything for a bedrock.. just the tote. Is that ok?
I just freshen up with new bran flakes from time totem 👍
For some reason I kept giggling when you whacked the egg cases against the box to get the roaches off dunno just something funny about that lol
i had a dubia colony for about 3 years... and after a while the lifecycle of the adults started to decline, i suspect because of the excessive inbreeding and no additional new bloodline introduced
Yes this can happen 👍
Hey, facing each egg tray so that two similar ends are always touching may help with providing more air flow. Having them stacked (as they would potentially come packaged) may mean that the trays will all lean to the one side and poses a potential risk of some guys getting squished? (Unlikely lol)
main point is that you will need more trays and there is less space between the trays if placed according to the method demonstrated in this video. I’m sure it’s totally fine this way, but this tip may be more useful to people who are limited in their supply of egg carton trays.
Hi Mary, I use them this way becouse the roaches prefer a tight space in which to rest and it also allows the babies somewhere to hide away from the adults .
We just bought a Dumpy Tree frog and was thinking of getting some of these..What do you suggest to start out with? I don't want as many as you hve by no means!! I'm scared of roaches period but want a healthy and happy frog! Thanks for any suggestions
Once you have a colony producing you can control it by temperature so cool to slow them down warm to get them breeding 👍
Just been recommended to watch this video. Very informative & helpful. Thank you!!
so glad you found it useful 👍
@@daveslittlebeasties what is that stuff you fill the base of the tub with? I've just got some dubias from my local pet store, I've used some coco fibre for now. Is that okay Hopefully?
Hopefully have my own colony in time 😁 im tired of buying locusts & crickets haha
@@JxyWxstxn I tell you in the video 😂😂😂 its wheat bran 👍
@@daveslittlebeasties thanks mate, I seem to have missed when you mentioned it
@@JxyWxstxn 😂😂😂 no worries bud👍
I have read that dubia roaches like high (60 odd percent) humidity. Is it good enough to have a good water source and heat? Misting them sounds like a bad idea if they don’t want to be wet.
Theres enough humidity between the egg. crates I like to keep the substrate dry 👍
Very nice video as always when my tarantula collection grows, if it does which I'm hoping it will, I shall return to this video and use it to correctly setup a dubia colony :)
You won't regret doing it mate , but I would start now because they can be slow to start😂👍
Are people not listening to the video??? It’s Wheat Bran!!! LoL 😂
😂😂😂👍
I’m pretty new to the channel, but I’m loving it! Great info
Welcome my friend 👍
I see you have a lid on your Dubai roach colony. Is this just to keep them in the dark or would they all climb out of the container? I ask because I plan on keeping mine in a dark room so if they don't climb out I would prefer not to have a lid. I am really worried about having a mold problem.
The lid is more for keeping flies out ? they cant climb the smooth sides and if your careful with the fresh food you should not get mould 👍
I really like spiders but I’ve never kept any. I didn’t know even know that tarantula keepers fed dubia roaches. I’ve only ever kept Dubias for my lizards. I’ll get myself a tarantula one of these days though, my favorite species is brachypelma hamorii (mexican red knee). I don’t know about their temperament so I’ll probably start off with their more beginner friendly cousin, brachypelma albopilosum. Anyways awesome content as always 👍👍👍
Where do you get males? Anytime I've ordered dubias, I've never seen any look like the males. Do breeders intentionally only ship out female?
Just get a box of medium size and grow them on
Thanks Dave,just what I was looking for.
Glad to help
Hey Dave! Looking at starting a fresh colony for my panther chameleon and we have ordered so far 100 medium mixed and 5 female and 10 males. Do you think we should order more to grow a decent size colony or leave it at that considering it only for 1 reptile who eats every other day. Thank you so much for educational video it really helped us set ours up thus far!
You should always aim for more females than males , this colony will be fine , I would not feed any from it until they have established themselves fully 👍
@@daveslittlebeasties sorry Dave that was my typo!! I meant 10 females to 5 males lol. I plan on letting the colony establish. Thank you for your help!
Great video Dave !!! So jelouse of what you guys are allowed to keep over there
Yes talking to other keepers around the world makes me appreciate how lucky we are.
I have a bearded dragon that loves these and rather not spend the money every week on them so want to grown them my sef any advice
Just follow the video they are easy to breed 👍
Hi, this is an amazing video! We have two agamas (beaded dragons) here in Czech Republic. I'm going to start my colony soon. Thank you for showing me how to do it! 😊
Agamas are related to bearded dragons but they are NOT bearded dragons.
So, do the roaches need humidity? And how should I keep them warm?
Its all in the video my friend 👍
thanks PROFF another great video.
Cheers buddy👍👍👍👍
Hi Dave, Thanks so much for your videos. We're setting up a Dubia colony for the first time, as we switch our Leopard Geckos from crickets to roaches. (Crickets are a bloody nightmare!) We found this video so informative, thank you. So many places we've read, have said that complex roach chow recipes have to be used and that the egg cartons have to be from a specific place (actual egg carton is contaminated with chemicals?) We've got a baker by us and we've been getting our egg carton boards from her, is that ok? Also, many places recommend oranges as hydration source, but our Dubies don't seem to touch it, any thoughts? Thanks again for what you do, a massive help!
I've kept dubias for 5-6 years now (also mainly for leopard geckos as well as a snack for my turtles) and I've never had any issues with the egg cartons I get from, well, eggs lol. If it used for food stuffs for humans I wouldn't worry. 😄 You don't need super fancy roach chow either. I started with a dry special blend, but after a year or two I switched to giving them vegetables, fruits, and chicken feed, and I saw no difference at all in health of the colony or number of offspring produces. It all depends on what is easiest for you, and since my family goes through a lot of greens and there's always some peelings or slightly off vegetable that I just toss in there. Very cost efficient! 😊 Just make sure you use vegetables that are not heavily sprayed with pesticides as this could kill the roaches, and always wash them. As for the oranges, don't worry, just try another vegetable and see if they like those more. Some say citrus fruit boosts their reproduction rate but I haven't noticed that in my colony either. Don't overthink it, you'll be fine! And your geckos will love you. 😍
I use regular egg crates with no problems im sure yours will be fine , I stopped using oranges because of the flies it attracts and only feed greens and chicken pellets now 👍they are very simple to care for , dont over think it and you will be fine 👍
Omg the sound of them, eeeeek, my Dubai’s don’t sound like that yet lol
SOUNDS LIKE RAIN
@@daveslittlebeasties yeah if you didn’t already know it was roaches 🤣🤣🤣 it would be fine 🤪
could you please tell the temps in celcius as well? The american almost never give us the celcius, i dont get why we keep giving them the farenheit.
Its what I use simple ob to google I will have to get a chart printed 😂😂👍