Dubia Roaches/heat mat?

[ViperJr]

I just want to add that in my experience, humidity is not something you need to think about, ever, when breeding dubias. I never mist, I don't have a water bowl, I don't use water crystals. The only source of water I have is the cucumber pieces that I put in there once a week. That's generally enough water for the colony. Of course, you need to adjust how much cucumber according to the population.
Also, the lid I use is basically a screen mesh, so it does not contain any humidity at all, that somehow got in there in the first place.

[Sublime]

I just want to add that in my experience, humidity is not something you need to think about, ever, when breeding dubias. I never mist, I don't have a water bowl, I don't use water crystals. The only source of water I have is the cucumber pieces that I put in there once a week. That's generally enough water for the colony. Of course, you need to adjust how much cucumber according to the population.
Also, the lid I use is basically a screen mesh, so it does not contain any humidity at all, that somehow got in there in the first place.

Yeah I've heard that dubias don't require substantial amounts of moisture in the air, they can do fine in drier climates. Just a few people from experience including "MonsterPyxie" said that the higher the humidity was for them the more the dubias started to breed at a faster pace. I know that they do require a little bit of moisture though to molt through their cycles without have an unsuccessful molt and dying off. I'm sure there's enough humidity in mine as of now, I just wanted to get optimal range for humidity to bump up the breeding process since my temperature is perfect. Thanks for the clarification, is your colony really thriving? How many are you up to right now after you started out?

[MonsterPyxie]

It's pretty dry here in Colorado, so maybe thats the issue, but I wasn't seeing any breeding, and my dubia where not eating that much. Found my humidity was around 30%. So I started misting daily, water crystal, oranges, and now im around 50-60% They have started eating about 1 cup of the ground up "roach chow" in about 2 days, where before it was over a week. I also seem to notice new babies, or females with egg's hanging out there butt just about every time I look in there now, where before I didn't.

it could just be my super dry climate, but so far im seeing great results.

Mark, I only mist the sides and egg crate lightly. enough for the water to bead up on the sides, but not enough for it to run down the sides and puddle on the bottom.

[Sublime]

Oh ok, yeah my roaches seem to not eat that much roach chow. I switched it up yesterday and made a different blend with some dry breakfast cereal for a little bit of sweetness, so hopefully they like that stuff more. I've read dubias love sweet foods, they eat all the oranges I put in there though. I'll try the light misting. You also have a colony of like 1200 and mine is 200 so that's probably why I'm not expecting great results from the food being eaten really fast. 50-60% humidity is perfect, I would like to get in that range hopefully.