The effects of high humidity on B. Dubia.

[MonsterPyxie]

update.

all seem's well. I found 3 more dead, but they where not all squishy like the others. Humidity was still high at 70% when I got home, but when I got up around 1pm after my nap, its at 65%. So I went ahead and added a mix of kale and baby carrots blended together. They devour this mix, but hopefully it doesn't spike the humidity.

[JeffreH]

Good to hear that losses weren't too significant; thank goodness you were able to address the problem promptly before it got out of hand! It sounds like you know exactly what went wrong and were proactive about fixing it... I guess to think optimistically, this little trial and error has helped to realize the limits of what you can offer them given your situation.

I do feel your pain though - I had tryed playing around with a chick-waterer to provide moisture to my Orange Heads. Unfortunately, the thing overflowed and flooded the entire bin... out of those that survived, the hypopigmented individuals became cannibalized and the colony decayed to about 1/4 its initial size.


Also - I've contemplated over and over separating sizes, I just don't feel like adding additional bins to my already crowded feeder rack area to rear various sized nymphs. Not going to lie; it would make things much easier come feed time though... Might adopt this strategy at some point. Let me know how it works for you = )

[MonsterPyxie]

Good to hear that losses weren't too significant; thank goodness you were able to address the problem promptly before it got out of hand! It sounds like you know exactly what went wrong and were proactive about fixing it... I guess to think optimistically, this little trial and error has helped to realize the limits of what you can offer them given your situation.

I do feel your pain though - I had tryed playing around with a chick-waterer to provide moisture to my Orange Heads. Unfortunately, the thing overflowed and flooded the entire bin... out of those that survived, the hypopigmented individuals became cannibalized and the colony decayed to about 1/4 its initial size.


Also - I've contemplated over and over separating sizes, I just don't feel like adding additional bins to my already crowded feeder rack area to rear various sized nymphs. Not going to lie; it would make things much easier come feed time though... Might adopt this strategy at some point. Let me know how it works for you = )

yep, hopefully this won't happen in the future, now that I know how sensitive it is. I will be adding more ventilation to try and make it not to sensitive to slight changes like this.

to seperate the baby nymphs from the adults, I have 2 buckets with holes drilled in the bottom. first bucket has pretty good sized holes, where all nymph's medium sized and under fall through them, and the second has TINY holes, to where only frass can fall through away from the baby nymphs.

some shaking, and "stirring" by flipping the roaches around in the air a bit, and you got some easy separating, while not perfect, it sure makes it simple!