Best Feeders | Dubia Roach Care Guide
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Good Morning, Reptilians! As requested, this week, we’re talking specifically about the care of Dubia roaches. I’ve done gut loading videos in the past, but they always included things like crickets and mealworms as well. This video goes over setup, keeping, feeding, watering, and breeding Dubia roaches.
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0:00 Intro
0:36 Why Roaches?
1:15 Care
1:30 Enclosure
2:49 Hiding Space
3:37 Feeding
5:13 Water
6:14 Example Setup
6:24 Breeding (male vs female)
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Also, you have to have a 5 female to 1 male ratio for breeding. Otherwise, the males will harm the females by trying to over breed. The males will also eat the young to keep females breeding. That's why you will always need more females than males.
Thanks so much for this info!
You're welcome
I noticed using a dark bin, like a black one, doesn't stress the roaches out as much, even with egg crates for hiding. The babies were dying off quickly. Once I switched to a black bin, the roaches started thriving more. And the babies stopped dying off so fast.
So glad u show "Bloopers". I have seizures from a brain injury, not a stroke recovery, but I do see myself in those takes.
PERFECT TIMING ❤️❤️
Thank you, elle-!!!
thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for !
You always have informative videos. Thanks for the great content 🙏 stay awesome 🤗🫶
Thank YOU for watching it 💜
This is perfect timing one of Dubias had some babies so I collected them all and put them in a separate container great video as always
Yeah it is. I started breeding them in August. They are doing great
BTW I subscribed to your channel
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Very good video! I just got back into reptiles after a roughly 20 year break and about the time I got my first (an orange female Bearded Dragon named Saffron) last October, I sat up a dubia roach breeding colony in a using a 30 gallon Sterlite bin. I started with about 70 (around 15 adult males and 50-60 females) as well as throwing in some of the feeders I’ve ordered now and again. They are breeding like mad and hope to be mostly self sufficient on feeders in a few more months. I honestly prefer them to crickets (though it took some convincing to get African Fat Tailed Gecko on eating them). They are much quieter, easier to manage than crickets (I absolutely hate wrangling crickets at feeding time…they are all over the place), stink a lot less when properly maintained, and die off a lot less. One thing I can add for bins that you keep the roaches in long term (my breeder bin and my bin that I hold them for feeding since I get 100+ on order until I get my breeders really producing bugs big enough for feeding and replacements for my breeding adults) it helps to add some dermestid beetles and lesser meal worms to the bins. They basically remove the need for cleaning the bins. The meal worms keep excess plant materials and the roach waste eaten and the beetles eat the dead roaches and exoskeletons after they molt. There is zero smell from my breeder bin, no fungal growth, the roaches are healthy, and I’ve yet to have to clean out bin which now has 6-700 roaches in it now. I have to add that it’s super weird to me actively raising roaches in a house that I spent several hundred dollars to kill off roaches in after I moved into it! 😂
Thank you for this video. I'm just getting into Geckos and Breaded Dragons and this helps. And I love your videos
Awesome video! I would have never thought of the dragon food. I use cricket food, crystals and carrots for backup.
This was perfect I've been meaning to get my boy some roaches
Good morning Elle, wishing you a peaceful week ahead!! Thank you for another informative video!!
Thank you so much! And thank you for always being here! Have an amazing week. 🥰
@@ellesreptiles You are so welcome!! You are awesome my friend!! 😊😊
I used to breed Dubia Roaches as a food source for my Emperor Scorpion. He never ate one of them. In fact, he made "friends" with them. So I had a few Blaptica Dubia as pets. I ended up giving my roach farm to a friend. Never again did I try to raise them. I found out that my Scorpion loved hunting rather than being hand fed and switched to crickets. No, I did not raise crickets. Too noisy. lol
I have colony of them had to sale some to my favorite pet store be because there were just to my for my reptiles to eat. This was a great informative video for there care.
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Yay. This will help me a lot with my feeder insect business Bug Buddy I'm going to start soon
Excellent video Elle as usual. I started with around 20 roaches, now I have hundreds, help, lol. They seem to prefer dark or black containers, because I live in the UK, a little cooler, I have a heating pad on one side of the container(s)
Hey i watched your skink video last year thanks for helping me with stuff she is the same species as urs
I want to change my feeder insect for my leapord gecko Kuzco (shes less than 1 year, i hot her 2 weeks ago) to dubia. I'm currently feeding her locus ☻️ I like this video very informative tysm!!!
So glad it was helpful! 💜
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Hi Elle I love your videos, I was just wondering how often wet paper towels need changing?
Depending on the size of the water container, maybe around once a week or when the paper towel dries out.
Thank you for your reply, really helpful
I give my mealworms carrots every few days and that seems to fit their water requirements. Would water crystals work better? Thanks for the video!
Iv told people about these I'm like just think of your pet needs a pet 😅 there fun to watch
If you're not doing a bioactive substrate with leaf litter and springtails, how do you clean up Roach Frass/Poo and any dead bugs?
I didn't quite understand. How much of the water crystals should go into the gallon jug?
ik this is sorta off topic for the video but i wanted some advice on how to get my beardie to eat veggies? he won’t eat them unless i make bim and even if i put his bugs in there or calcium poweder or anything he still won’t eat it.
Excuse me should i be worried. I have two pet dubias i decided not to feed to my jumpers. One of them has black dots in stomach area. Is this an infection?poop? I did feed them bananas and it molded a bit
If your using a smallish bin,why not park it on top of your mini or regular fridge?
Can you show a video of your process of cleaning out their enclosure? It seems SO time consuming...I ended up getting a container of Amazon. It almost looks like a pitcher that you hold water in..the bottom unscrews to clean the poo out ..and it has a trap door that I can change out their food and water....
I wanted a huge bin like yours but I was getting super frustrated with the cleaning process
I definitely can! The process is basically just taking all of them out (one by one 😅) and putting them into a temporary holding container. Dumping their enclosure and cleaning it out, and then putting everything back in. Finding all the roaches is the most time consuming part 😬.
How is the pitcher working out? I've never seen someone do this, and I'm super curious if a more efficient process exists
Is there such a thing as a bioactive dubia roach enclosure?
Holy sht there is.
How many dubia roaches do you feed a baby bearded dragon a day???
hey elle! love your videos! i dont know if you know but those plastic jugs break down over time and can get particles into the thing inside like water or the crystals thats why its not typically recommended to reuse them just a heads up!
never heard of these so called 'water crystal', I was like: waitaminute, doesn't that just mean 'ice' ^^ Checking it out, "hydrophilic plastic" is presumably a less marketable name than 'water crystal', yay marketing !
do not feed dubia roaches calcium as stated at 4:01. the reason is it makes their shells harder which makes it more difficult for them to molt or impossible which can lead to complications and ☠
Dubia roaches are the reason I don't have a bearded dragon.