breeding cockroaches

[stockeh]

hey gusy up till now i have just been breeding crickets and wax worms, now i would like to move into cockroaches, any tips at all would be greatly appreciated

cheers
Matt

 

[rodentrancher]

Hey Matt, we are breeding ours in 60ltr tubs on wheels. We use those flat egg stackers with cardboard in between. Usually chuck in some carrot every 2 days or so and also some pieces of apple. We also give them a bit of dry cat tucker coated in calcium powder and skim milk powder. No substrate needed on bottom of tub(easier for cleaning). Dave cut a rectangle out of the lid in the centre then stuck metal flywire(not the fibreglass flywire) in there with craft glue. We put Vaseline around the inside of the tubs down about to 4ins from the top. Stops the little buggas crawling out. There is some other stuff available from the Herpshop for this. Cheers C.

 

[stockeh]

and they just breed willy nilly in the egg cartons do they??? do you have to seperate the adults from the hatchies, and how long do they take to breed etc.

thanks rodentrancher by the way

 

[basketcase]

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i got some that were too big for my gex so i stuck them in an old mouse tub with egg cartons and some carrot. within a few weeks i had hatchies

theres nothing to it really

im just starting to bred crickets, any tips for me ???

cheers, jono

 

[stockeh]

http://www.aussiepythons.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2634 follow this thread jono it will help you out

 

[snakehunter]

herp shop has a care sheet for roaches

 

[iluvsmyreptiles]

Really Easy.
I feed mine carrot, dog biscuits and broccoli.
They seem to thrive on neglect LOL.

 

[rodentrancher]

So can anyone tell me which reptiles/amphibians eat the woodies(feeder roaches please?) Cheers Cheryl

 

[rodentrancher]

Also do they eat them full size or the small size(babies)? Thanks Cheryl

 

[Parko]

Seems like a question easy enough for me to answer. I'd assume almost all dragons and some skinks would eat roaches. Larger roaches for larger lizards and smaller for smaller lizards.

 

[BIGTOE]

your brain power astounds me parko

BAAAHHH BBAAAAAHHHHH BBAAAHHH

 

[Parko]

Yes indeed it would. :wink:

 

[africancichlidau]

R.R. do you keep reptiles at all or are you just into supply of foodstuff?

 

[Already_Gone]

Yeah, dragons love em, skinks, frogs would and maybe even scorpions or spiders (at a guess)... I guess anything you feed crickets to... I got told that 1 woodie is nutritionally equivalent to 2 crix... and they are live bearers so you dont have to worry about the eggs drying out like with crix!!!

 

[rodentrancher]

Hey African, no we haven't got any reptiles yet, but Dave wants to get into them. He's rather fascinated with snakes. Did have a big brown snake in the rattery/mousery yesterday. Was dispatched to Snake Heaven by the neighbours shovel. Sorry to say. Didn't know snakes could climb stairs??? Cheers Cheryl

 

[sxereturn]

..why would you kill an animal so beautiful, and then post it on website devoted to people who like reptiles?

 

[hugsta]

My ackies love woodies, quite interesting to watch them chase them around the enclosure.
P.S. has anyone in Sydney region got an adult female for sale(Varanus Acanthurus), preferably red. I have a beatiful red/yellow male. His colours are just awesome.

 

[BROWNS]

Surely there were better options than killing the poor bloody snake?

 

[africancichlidau]

It was that very fact that made me ask the question RR

 

[stockeh]

rodent people..... thats not something that i would have posted on this site especially since you get so much business from here, and well.... we all love snakes

there are always options, and for all of us here the shovel is never one of them