Hello to everyone, Have A White tree frog & An Eastern Grey tree frog

[Rae]

I just learned something XD... but I'll stick to my crickets... less creepy lol

[KingCam]

I just learned something XD... but I'll stick to my crickets... less creepy lol

:P I can't argue with the "creepy" factor that comes with roaches. I've gotten to the point now where it doesn't bother me too much to hold the dubia roaches, and my deathead hybrids (the hybrids are even bigger than the dubias as adults), and I sometimes poke at my surinam, p.femapterus, and pallid roaches (all three of those species are very small as adults. Only like 1/2 inch long, smaller than an adult cricket. Great for tree frogs!)

But the lobster roaches, oh gawd the lobster roaches. If a lobster roach even gets close to touching me I am lible to scream like a small girl. The lobster roaches as adults are absolutely perfectly sized for my three biggest grey tree frogs. The other three smaller tree frogs get slighty smaller nymphs.

Here are a few photos of my grey tree frogs eating Lobster Roaches (Nauphoeta cinerea).

I think this is Bud (I get mixed up on which is which when I can't see them all :P). He's eating a medium sized lobster roach nymph. Normally lobster roach nymphs are dark brown, but this one just shed skin. For a couple hours after the roaches shed skin they don't have a shell, but rather very soft white skin. My frogs absolustely LOVE them like this. It's like all meat, no shell, the perfect feeder insect! I always look for "soft shell" roaches before feeding them a regular roach.




Here is a lobster roach nymph shedding its exoskeleton. They are very squishy at this point, no claws, no leg barbs, no shell whatsoever. It's like crack for my frogs. They will even fight each other over them if I don't separate them when I see them give "that look" to each other, hahaha


This is Frogger, she's swallowing a full grown lobster roach here. The wings are sticking out of her mouth still XD


I REALLY wish this photo hadn't turned out blurry. This is frogger, with the back end of an adult lobster roach hanging out of her mouth. You can see my frogs sometimes do acrobatics to beat each other to the roach at the end of the tongs XD


Anyway... as you can see, my tree frogs are fat and happy on a steady diet of gut loaded roaches :P

[Rae]

ewww lol but kinda cool lol

[Pluke]

To be honest, I think crickets are more gross than Roaches. I just have dubia's, never dealt with the other kinds.. but from handling and caring for dubia's in this last couple weeks, they are just so much easier.. they don't stink, they don't jump, and so far they haven't attracted any foreign bugs like gnats or flies. Which my crickets have.. stinky bastards. I change their bin regularly too. I think roaches just get a bad rap because you only hear about infestations of them in certain places, which is gross, but keeping them as feeders is completely different and also a different kind of roach. Unfortunately dubia's tend to dig into the coco fiber in my pacmans tank immediately, which is extremely aggravating. That and my pacmans aren't exactly fans of them, they are coming around though.. they just like to hunt a little I think and the roaches go straight underground. -.-