I liked breeding the roaches, had orange spotted dubia/don't climb. But the one thing I found that was a real bummer was my hatchlings would not go after the baby roaches, they did not move, ( the baby roaches play dead) and the lizard would walk away. I would have to make the babys move each time. So what would happen I would soon find alot of baby roaches under things.

Also some of my collareds would not eat anything bigger than a medium roach,( which was big) and some collareds did not eat them at all. This left me with some large roaches that had to be fed to my Blue tongue skink who soon was bored with them and my large leaftail geckos would eat a few, Panther chameleon would. But for the most part I was not real pleased with what was being eaten as opposed to crickets. Also the large roaches have mostly shell.

I have bred crickets over the years as well, time consuming, lots of containers, heat in the winter, must stay super clean when ya have so many or you get a weird smell. Can't let anything get damp. I thought it was a pain, but with the COST of shipping crickets these days and the amounts I need, I'm thinking about breeding my own again, or trying another type of smaller roach that does not climb.
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PHEve / Eve

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