I breed a few different species of roaches and definitely saves a lot of money and makes me money as well. I have over 10 monitors along with geckos, frogs, arachnids and few other critters. I go through 2-4pounds of vegetables every other day to feed the roaches. Best investment I’ve made they feed all my critters and enough to supply a few friends and some local pet shops. I also breed superworms, mealworms and waxworms it’s the only way I can afford such a large variety of species. Well wish you all the best and hope you have a great day bud 🙋♂️✌️
Breeding your own feeders is the smartest way to keep a large collection. Most people don't have the space or time for it sadly. I appreciate the kind words. Have a great day.
@@KylesMonitors yeah I hear you on that it took me years before I started my own feeder colonies because I thought they would smell or take up room. Only feeders I wasn’t a fan of were crickets 🦗 because the smell and not the easiest to keep and maintain. But this year I plan on trying to breed the large black crickets I figured I’d try them out but also definitely plan on trying to breed grasshoppers. I have a friend out west that’s had great success breeding them. I’m always trying new things I enjoy the challenges and trying to learn something new keeps it interesting as well.
@@pumpkinchow I hate crickets. I haven't bred or bought them in years. I've had great luck with grasshoppers too. They're expensive but great feeders. I'll be making a video on my new hopper enclosures soon
Simple solution. Buy a small electric grinder and a small sausage stuffer and make bug sausages using collagen casing. Perfectly safe to feed to your reptiles. Benefits are as follows: -Ground insects are easier to digest. -Ground insects are extremely compact so you can fit dozens of Dubias into a single casing. -You can freeze them for up to several months. -You only have to feed a single sausage to a larger reptile VS. many Dubia - Ease of feeding. -You can mix in fresh fruits and veggies for omnivorous reptiles that don't like to eat their greens.
That's a really good idea. I've seen some people make combo sausage using bugs and whole prey. I'm not sure how many people have the time for that or would be willing to do it though.
@@KylesMonitors True. It is time consuming. However if you have a large collection with lots of animals to tong feed like myself you save a lot of time in the long run during feeding sessions. For example I might have to feed 50-100 dubias in a session VS 6-12 sausages.
Wow, I love your videos! I’m an aspiring herpetologist but I have a massive interest in isopods and have 21 species now… but my excuse is that the food is free haha! I want to eventually get a pair of ackie monitors and a pair of green tree monitors a few years down the line and use some of my isopods in a bioactive exhibit. Isopods breed MUCH slower and more reasonably than many roaches.
I'm glad you're enjoying my videos! Isopods are really neat. I want to start breeding some of the higher end ones at some point just because I like them. The only species I have any experience with are dwarf whites. I put those in my tree monitor enclosure 3 years ago and they're doing great. I'll lift a piece of bark and find 50-100 of them working on something.
@@KylesMonitors I still don’t have dwarf whites because they are notorious for overtaking other colonies due to their parthenogenesis 😂 but they’re still so cool!!!
🤣you get used to them after keeping them for a while. They're also not filthy cockroaches like most people think of. They're fairly neat and they don't stink if you clean the colony at least once a week.
I keep mine between 80-90 and they do great. Higher temps definitely increase breeding activity and growth. I try to maintain 80-84 to keep roach numbers down because if I didn’t I’d have to many to handle. Roaches make a perfect feeder insect for so many different critters and I’m sure your fish would love them. I’d suggest starting two roach colonies at first this way you have a bin for feeding your pets and a bin you leave just to breed and grow your numbers. My first mistake was starting with one colony and it took very long time to get my numbers up. Hope that helps you from having the same problem I did and wish you all the best
Ykur not even lying. I have so many for 1 dragon its getting out of hand. At this point im about to undercut every single seller anywhere just to have time for anything else.
@@KylesMonitors that's cool I'm getting to that point rn I'm feeding my big ass bearded dragon and 6 of my friends and still have plenty. Maybe I'll look into that. Good idea.
so would a smaller bin maybe a thrid of the size be better? I only own a frog a gecko and a couple of tarantulas and I'm already breeding mealworms, crickets and fruit flies for them. I was told dubias were easier than crickets so I plan to switch to them fully eventually but if keeping them in some smaller tupperware would dwindle the numbers I'd prefer that option
I'm stuck with more than i need and i totally keep then in cooler temps in hopes to calm down the breeding but i don't think that the temp makes a difference to them at all their non stop. Idk whay to do
You can try selling or giving them away locally. You can also try to find a reptile rescue to donate them to. Mine breed like crazy at higher temps. If I let them drop to room temp they slow way down. Mine are also in my basement where it's only 70.
A lot of people that want to start breeding dubia only have a few reptiles to feed and a colony will produce way more than they can use. The warning is that you'll have to find something to do with the ridiculous excess.
B. dubia can not invade and colonize a home. Few species of blatoidea can do that, and they are not breed as feeders. Even in tropical regions, dubia cannot find food to survive inside your home. I breed N. cinerea, the poster child of bad press and I'm not worried.
Not accurate at all dubi species can’t survive in are houses or are weather they eat honey oats and fruit the likeliness of one surviving is .1% and there so slow you’d eventually catch it.
I breed a few different species of roaches and definitely saves a lot of money and makes me money as well. I have over 10 monitors along with geckos, frogs, arachnids and few other critters. I go through 2-4pounds of vegetables every other day to feed the roaches. Best investment I’ve made they feed all my critters and enough to supply a few friends and some local pet shops. I also breed superworms, mealworms and waxworms it’s the only way I can afford such a large variety of species. Well wish you all the best and hope you have a great day bud 🙋♂️✌️
Breeding your own feeders is the smartest way to keep a large collection. Most people don't have the space or time for it sadly.
I appreciate the kind words. Have a great day.
@@KylesMonitors yeah I hear you on that it took me years before I started my own feeder colonies because I thought they would smell or take up room. Only feeders I wasn’t a fan of were crickets 🦗 because the smell and not the easiest to keep and maintain. But this year I plan on trying to breed the large black crickets I figured I’d try them out but also definitely plan on trying to breed grasshoppers. I have a friend out west that’s had great success breeding them. I’m always trying new things I enjoy the challenges and trying to learn something new keeps it interesting as well.
@@pumpkinchow I hate crickets. I haven't bred or bought them in years.
I've had great luck with grasshoppers too. They're expensive but great feeders. I'll be making a video on my new hopper enclosures soon
Simple solution. Buy a small electric grinder and a small sausage stuffer and make bug sausages using collagen casing. Perfectly safe to feed to your reptiles. Benefits are as follows:
-Ground insects are easier to digest.
-Ground insects are extremely compact so you can fit dozens of Dubias into a single casing.
-You can freeze them for up to several months.
-You only have to feed a single sausage to a larger reptile VS. many Dubia - Ease of feeding.
-You can mix in fresh fruits and veggies for omnivorous reptiles that don't like to eat their greens.
That's a really good idea. I've seen some people make combo sausage using bugs and whole prey. I'm not sure how many people have the time for that or would be willing to do it though.
@@KylesMonitors True. It is time consuming. However if you have a large collection with lots of animals to tong feed like myself you save a lot of time in the long run during feeding sessions. For example I might have to feed 50-100 dubias in a session VS 6-12 sausages.
Pretty smart, but at same time, eeeeewwww.
Can't even tell anymore if it'll be a feast for Lizards or the Roaches
Wow, I love your videos! I’m an aspiring herpetologist but I have a massive interest in isopods and have 21 species now… but my excuse is that the food is free haha! I want to eventually get a pair of ackie monitors and a pair of green tree monitors a few years down the line and use some of my isopods in a bioactive exhibit. Isopods breed MUCH slower and more reasonably than many roaches.
I'm glad you're enjoying my videos! Isopods are really neat. I want to start breeding some of the higher end ones at some point just because I like them. The only species I have any experience with are dwarf whites. I put those in my tree monitor enclosure 3 years ago and they're doing great. I'll lift a piece of bark and find 50-100 of them working on something.
@@KylesMonitors I still don’t have dwarf whites because they are notorious for overtaking other colonies due to their parthenogenesis 😂 but they’re still so cool!!!
non-roach breeder here, my god, i have no idea how you sift your hands through roaches like that with not a single care in the world 😂
🤣you get used to them after keeping them for a while. They're also not filthy cockroaches like most people think of. They're fairly neat and they don't stink if you clean the colony at least once a week.
We usually make a blend of pellets, kale, and carrots. It seems to work well
Cool, what would be the ideal temp? perfectly suited to feed fish in an eco way!
I keep mine in the low 90's. I have a video going over how I set them up.
I keep mine between 80-90 and they do great. Higher temps definitely increase breeding activity and growth. I try to maintain 80-84 to keep roach numbers down because if I didn’t I’d have to many to handle. Roaches make a perfect feeder insect for so many different critters and I’m sure your fish would love them. I’d suggest starting two roach colonies at first this way you have a bin for feeding your pets and a bin you leave just to breed and grow your numbers. My first mistake was starting with one colony and it took very long time to get my numbers up. Hope that helps you from having the same problem I did and wish you all the best
Ykur not even lying. I have so many for 1 dragon its getting out of hand. At this point im about to undercut every single seller anywhere just to have time for anything else.
@@KylesMonitors that's cool I'm getting to that point rn I'm feeding my big ass bearded dragon and 6 of my friends and still have plenty. Maybe I'll look into that. Good idea.
you can separate males if you want it them not that many and left only a few just to still keep them breeding.
That is an option
Do you just dump the roaches out for the chickens to hunt and munch on or do you kill them first? Like...roach mulch
so would a smaller bin maybe a thrid of the size be better? I only own a frog a gecko and a couple of tarantulas and I'm already breeding mealworms, crickets and fruit flies for them. I was told dubias were easier than crickets so I plan to switch to them fully eventually but if keeping them in some smaller tupperware would dwindle the numbers I'd prefer that option
Keeping them in something smaller and keeping their temperature lower would help keep the colony smaller
I'm stuck with more than i need and i totally keep then in cooler temps in hopes to calm down the breeding but i don't think that the temp makes a difference to them at all their non stop. Idk whay to do
You can try selling or giving them away locally. You can also try to find a reptile rescue to donate them to.
Mine breed like crazy at higher temps. If I let them drop to room temp they slow way down. Mine are also in my basement where it's only 70.
You could video your self stepping the one's you don't need and sell the video depending on how you step on them you can make a lot of money😮
Dude, I'd kill to have a colony that size! If you ever sell any of 'em, hit me up! Im also in PA
My comments keep disappearing, hopefully this one stays. I sell them locally right now. I'll consider shipping in the future.
@@KylesMonitors Alright!
What ‘warning’ is this lol
A lot of people that want to start breeding dubia only have a few reptiles to feed and a colony will produce way more than they can use. The warning is that you'll have to find something to do with the ridiculous excess.
Omg !!!!!!!
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Is that what you feed on chicken that i eat?! WTF!!!
One escapes and your house is doomed, too risky.
B. dubia can not invade and colonize a home. Few species of blatoidea can do that, and they are not breed as feeders. Even in tropical regions, dubia cannot find food to survive inside your home. I breed N. cinerea, the poster child of bad press and I'm not worried.
It's not an issue at all. It's too cold and dry in my house for them to survive
Not accurate at all dubi species can’t survive in are houses or are weather they eat honey oats and fruit the likeliness of one surviving is .1% and there so slow you’d eventually catch it.
Yeah, the only thing that's doomed Is the escaped roach.
Do we really need to own any animal besides dogs and cats, etc. Nothing you have to feed roaches, think of the consequences.
Ooh the consequences! Ooh!
What consequences? If one escapes it hides somewhere and dies. They can't survive in my house.