Thank you, that makes me feel like I have actually done enough research to possibly make a colony work.

I have fed the frogs crickets, fruit flies, house flies, bottle flies and wood lice (potato bugs) and they seem to go after anything that moves. I think size will be a more determining factor than type of bug. The only thing I have found is they will grab a larger bug but drop it or spit it out if they think it is too large. I do plan on having other feeders as I stated just to make sure that alll the frogs eat. I know 3 of the frogs will not hesitate to eat a Dubia, the others, if I make sure I have flies they will get fed until I can get them to take the Dubia, if they ever do. Or whatever roach if I decide to go with another one.

Lobsters are probably not gonna happen because I need to keep them confined or my wife will exterminate them. Is going to be hard enough to make sure I can keep the Dubia safe and zero escapes for the wife to freak out over.

The runners sound like an interesting option. Being able to hatch the ootheca separately might be a big advantage for feeding. Being able to take the ooths and put them in separate containers would be a nice way to have the perfect size when it is feeding time. And a lot less sorting. The only drawback is the only ootheca I have ever hatched was a mantis ooth so zero experience there. Any information specific to them would be helpful. I can see having 3-5 jars set up for hatching the ooths already.

And if I am understanding this right, gut loading has nothing to do with the health of of the feeder. It is simply a way to load the stomach of the feeder to get other stuff into our pets that they wouldn't get from the bug itself. Here I thought it was all about the health of the feeder. Guess I should have put two and two together by now, after years of raising feeder insects of some sort or another. I doubt I will mess with gut loading, sounds a lot easier just to feed them a proper diet that also can benefit the pets instead of messing with special needs right before feeding them off.

Information on hatching the runner ooths would be helpful, maybe i will go with them instead of the Dubia simply for size reasons. I doubt my frogs would eat a full sized cricket so Dubia may be too big too fast to be a viable feeder.