I had lobsters to start and Luna loved them when she was young and stopped eating them later on. As for keeping, I used vaseline and/or two-sided tape to keep the roaches in their container, but it was still a pain in the butt and some got out.



They do breed quickly and I suppose if you have LOTS of animals to feed (like Tyler and John) they probably are the most cost effective.



That said...I now have discoid and orange head (thank you Morgana and Victor . Before Luna died she was not eating them, but I kept them for Darwin (Bearded Dragon) as he grew. He will sometimes eat them and sometimes not, but he is not sure if he is brumating or not so is being very picky! lol!



As for general care? THEY CANNOT BE BEAT! As has already been said, they do not smell (a couple species release a defensive odor but nothing too bad and only when disturbed), very cheap and easy to feed, super easy to gutload, no noise. I am not looking for huge colonies just yet so I keep them at normal room temp and have lots of babies - I can only imagine what I would have if I kept there tempms up!



Ok, that's my stuff....



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0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita

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