Crickets vs. Roaches

[Bruce]

I have a small dubia flag colony for my female pyxie, and I think they're great! You can really control the population with heat and all I do is feed them fruit/vegetable scraps. Sometimes I gut-load but I usually dust with vitamins and calcium before I feed. I seems a bit pricy to buy gut-load to feed them, as mine will just devour anything I throw in there within a few hours or less!

[Greg M]

Bruce is quite right - Dubia can thrive on leftover veg/fruit quite nicely.

I just like to maintain them on Repashy gutload + sweet potatoes (or whatever) because I get the benefits of gutloading without having to think about it. The roaches like it and do well on it. My roach colony takes quite a while (months) to eat a small bag of gut-load, so its fairly economical. In contrast, crickets don't seem to maintain all that well on gut-loads, so you have to switch them to gut-load for 24 hours or whatever. I'm just too busy or lazy!