feeders?

panthergecko

panthergecko

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well i have started breeding feeders for my 2 leopard geckos and going to get new reptile at the westchester county reptile expo.
feeders being bred are meal worms and crickets.
i also plan on getting some other feeder.
suggestions...?
i have some one who can sell me some red razors or i think red runners are they good? dubia? im new to roaches
 
Ozymandias

Ozymandias

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he probably mean red runner (b. lateralis) there a good small roach and i use them all the time, the dubia are another good. for more info on roaches look to the link in my signature.
 
Elizabeth Freer

Elizabeth Freer

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A caution about red runners?

Roy ~

Are the Blatta lateralis/red runners those roaches which will breed anywhere in your house if they should escape? If those are the ones, I have heard that people like to monitor their whereabouts at all times and generally handfeed them to critters with tongs.

If that is true, that's the reason I have stuck with Blaptica dubia :?.
 
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Ozymandias

Ozymandias

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panthergecko said:
how much can i get to keep a small colony?
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for the lats you can pick up 100 of them for really cheap but if you just want a small colony i would go with the dubia even if thay are a little on the more expensive side. it's just my feeling that dubia are a little bit easier to deal with because thay are slower. if you get the dubia though you have to leave them alone for a couple months though to let the colony get establish because you don't want to over feed off a colony. the lat though are so cheap that it really doesn't matter.
 
Ozymandias

Ozymandias

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Elizabeth Freer said:
Roy ~

Are the Blatta lateralis/red runners those roaches which will breed anywhere in your house if they should escape? If those are the ones, I have heard that people like to monitor their whereabouts at all times and generally handfeed them to critters with tongs.

If that is true, that's the reason I have stuck with Blaptica dubia :?.
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while i've heard of it happening thay really require much more heat and humidity to breed then most places in the US. i know for a fact that Ethan has them and he has never had a problem with them. also thay start dying off at around 65-50ish. i will say though thay get into to the weirdest places i think i have at least one of them in each of my other roach colonies.
 
Q

qiksilver

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I have to say, I agree with Elizabeth. My red runners, I had the devil spawn roach that ate a bunch of others despite food and water present, and just generally being a huge pain. My S. williamsi love them, but I can't have a colony of them, I'll be buying them to feed off right away from now on. I ended up freezing the lot since they were too large for my aussie's.


Dubia's work extremely well for me, my colony is thriving.
 
Ozymandias

Ozymandias

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Elizabeth Freer said:
So, Roy, how have these Blatta lateralis managed to join your other roach colonies? :yikes: This is what has me worried!
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it's really my fault mainly because im not that careful with them

qiksilver said:
I have to say, I agree with Elizabeth. My red runners, I had the devil spawn roach that ate a bunch of others despite food and water present, and just generally being a huge pain. My S. williamsi love them, but I can't have a colony of them, I'll be buying them to feed off right aw
ay from now on. I ended up freezing the lot since they were too large for my aussie's.


Dubia's work extremely well for me, my colony is thriving.
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ya thay can be little devils some times but i've never had that much problems with them. i have been looking for non climbing species of roach that is similar to the lat but slower

panthergecko said:
yeah after reading up on the species im getting dubias im new to roaches
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good choice thay are a good roaches
 
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