Culturing Lobster Roaches (and other roaches)

[adinco]

omg the pics gross me out. i don't think i can do it... i hate buying crickets only to have them keep dying on me though. where do you get the roaches you start with? do your frogs eat the adults too?

[KingCam]

omg the pics gross me out. i don't think i can do it... i hate buying crickets only to have them keep dying on me though. where do you get the roaches you start with? do your frogs eat the adults too?

haha, they're nasty little things aren't they? Still not as nasty as cricket in my own opinion, though.

Well I got my first 500 lobster roaches from a friend I met on a different forum. He UPSed them to me. The Dubias.... hmmmm.... I cannot remember who sent me the dubias. I think I may have ordered them from aaronpauling.com I have some hissers, the females sent to me by a friend in Texas, the others sent from a friend on caudata.org. My newest 4 species were sent to me by a friend on caudata.org

Ebay is a great place to get feeder roaches sometimes, also.

Yes, my frogs eats the nymphs and the adult lobster roaches. I also give them nymph dubia roaches sometimes, but the adult dubias are far too big for a grey tree frog to eat.

[Pluke]

My baby tomato frogs love dubia nymphs. They suck them down no problem. Hopefully they grow up to like them because as of right now, my pacmans seem to hate dubia's. I've got them to eat about 10 in the last 3 weeks. I have over a hundred left, lol. I'm just glad that my tomato's like the nymphs. Dubia's remind me of giant roly-poly's aka Isopods. I need to get an animal that will eat the bigger ones I have. The only time my bigger pacman will eat them is if they're freshly molted, that's if I'm lucky.

[KingCam]

Dubias have always reminded me of giant isopods, too :P