Hissers and cannibalism the test finally begins!
As many of you have followed my Dubia+protein threads, you will remember that I promised to conduct an expirment to find out if Hissers will feed on Dubia if they are housed together. I will be conducting that expirement starting tomorrow. It wont be as extensive as my last expirment, but I plan on taking a month to get some solid documented information.
Many expert Roach breeders believe they will only cannibalize if moisture and food requirements are not met. Others believe that they will do so regardless. We will also take over-crowding into consideration in this.
Like my last experiment I will seperate the roaches into different groups but less this time. The groups are as follows:
1. Adult hissers+baby dubia under normal conditions (meaning proper food and moiture will be provided)
2. Adult hissers+baby dubia (food and moisture will not be provided I will not let them starve to death but they will be very hungry and thirsty)
3. Adult hissers+baby dubia under normal conditions but I will pack them in tight. (over crowd them)
4. Adult hisser+ baby dubia over crowded and I will not provide food or water.
I will do each experiement for 5 days at a time. when the 5 days are up I will return the roaches to the colonies and select new ones and different sizes. I will repeat for 1 month. Then I will post my final findings and all the stats.
If anyone has any input please fill free to throw your two cents in. I always love great ideas and feed back.
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