Quote Originally Posted by yoshimi View Post
so true that they beat crickets. my crickets never stank but with all the hopping and dying it was a pain. i keep the baby dubia on a shelf and i would guess it's under 68 degrees, so they don't grow much. i have 34 adults and nearly adults in a bin with heat; got it earlier this month, so no babies for another few weeks. they're molting very well, no deaths. oh, one death when i 1st got them. i won it from my feeder supplier, otherwise i wouldn't have them. it's very easy to keep them simply as feeders. $2 bin from target with holes poked through the lid, some small egg crates, food, and that's all they really need. trying to breed them requires a bit more attention.
The only extra attention needed is keep the temps between 90-100 F. Give them oranges.This increases breeding significantly.(Dont squeeze the juice over your roaches It will increase your risk for mold and will help minimally for breeding.) And remove the new babies once a month if you have a small colony the adults breed better when they dont have to compete for food. The rest they do on there own. You can drop in two weeks of dry foods and water cryistals and go on vacation come home and find your colony growing and growing. It just a shame that buying these things are so expensive because they do all the labor.