Dubia roach question

[deranged chipmunk]

Heather, heather, heather......you losing your mind as of late? Lol

[timscrape]

Wow! Lots of good info. I joined this forum to help my son keep his pacman alive. I didn't realize how helpful it would be. One more quick question. How big of a colony would you suggest for one pacman?

[demon amphibians]

Wow! Lots of good info. I joined this forum to help my son keep his pacman alive. I didn't realize how helpful it would be. One more quick question. How big of a colony would you suggest for one pacman?

200-400 would probably be just right. But like i always say the more the better they can only reproduce so fast and if you find that you have to many, you can slow them down or even stop them from breeding by lowering the temperature. Always hold on to some nymphs for future breeders.

[unkempt1]

Wow! Lots of good info. I joined this forum to help my son keep his pacman alive. I didn't realize how helpful it would be. One more quick question. How big of a colony would you suggest for one pacman?

Female dubia produce about 20-30 babies per birth, and if conditions are right can produce young once per month. My pacman will on average eat about 3-6 medium-sized roaches every 2-3 days. That's anywhere from 20-90 roaches a month, and he's about six months old.

You can definitely get 200-400 medium roaches, but depending on his appetite he may go through them all prior to any reaching adulthood. Plus you can't control how many are males or female. You will be the best judge of his appetite. I'd recommend getting maybe 10-20 females, 5 or so males, and about 200 or so mixed sizes. Then you can feed off your colony while they build up. The nymphs that are born will be given time to grow; you can pretty much guarantee a pacman will ignore or not be able to snatch up the smaller nymphs. You will also noticed the females don't always follow the 30 day production rule you try to set for them.