Dubia Roach setup before/after

[Kreamcheese]

Love how active and knowledgeable people are on this forum. Thanks for the advice Monster. I bought a pack of 70 egg flats so I'll have some glued together for spares when I clean out my bin.

[MonsterPyxie]

Love how active and knowledgeable people are on this forum. Thanks for the advice Monster. I bought a pack of 70 egg flats so I'll have some glued together for spares when I clean out my bin.

sound's good, but don't waste too many. Once a month, or when they become saturated.

Remember the babies eat and hide in the poo/frass. So you don't want a bin/enclosure that is spotless. kinda gross, but its how they work. I find it pretty cool that they are that efficient. The roaches fascinate me more then any of my other critters, they are so much like a well oiled machine!

[Kreamcheese]

Yeah I know to only clean the bin rarely, like once every other month. But with my small numbers I may be able to go even longer. And the 70 flats only cost me $12 bucks so not that worried about the cost

[MonsterPyxie]

Yeah I know to only clean the bin rarely, like once every other month. But with my small numbers I may be able to go even longer. And the 70 flats only cost me $12 bucks so not that worried about the cost

Right, you might be able to go quite a while, just pick out the old fruit and such. With mine, I will probably clean once a month, but im not going to worry about every single bit of poo, I will leave a bit in there for the babies.

Where did you get your egg crate? I looked around alot and only found bundles of a dozen or so. I paid about $1.20 each I'm afraid

[Kreamcheese]

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Found this site from a well known Tarantula keeper/breeder. Robc is his name so credit goes to him.
Do have to pay shipping, think mine was like $8 or something like that. Still a MUCH better deal than any other place that I saw.

[Sublime]

Mark,

I have seen a TON of molting since that picture. Seems like more males then anything that I can see. I am planning soon to take on the task of counting my male to female ratio. I fear I have way to many males, and thats why i have been seeing so many of them acting odd in the last week or so. I will then thin out the numbers of the males if I need too, by feeding them off.

I keep them in what there in. The egg crate stays pretty dark, plus with all them crammed in there its darker/warmer and such then my old set up with a bunch of egg crate and tubes. I will be painting the outside of the container black, leaving a small ring at the top to peak in, that should be more then enough to keep them happy. They should be fine with a day/night cycle, but the darker the better for them.

as far as the pods you are finding, its a sign that the females are dropping the pods from stress. Not a good sign. If It's just a few, I wouldn't sweat it, but if there are quite a few around, you should recheck everything about your set up to see if there is something simple stressing them out.

Oh alright that's good; yeah thin them out if you think you have too many. Man I just don't know what I've done to cause them so much stress, I mean at most I'll open the lid once a day to check for dead ones or replenish the water gel crystals. We just had a heat wave so the bin got up to like 115F today at the bottom. That probably stressed them out pretty bad, although they could of moved up the egg flats where it dropped to like 90-80s. I keep them in a dark bin in the garage, they don't ever see much light so I don't think they are stressed from that. Maybe just moving the egg flats around and stuff checking for dead ones stressed them out a bit or the heat I have at the bottom.

I keep them in close quarters together, only 3 egg flats in there with about 200 adults. They pretty crammed near the bottom. I'll try to take a picture of my setup so you get an idea of what I'm trying to come across.

I bought 2 heat tape pads off BigAppleHerp to bump up the heat and prepare for winter (I haven't got them yet in shipment). Even though it says 90-100 at the bottom with one of my uth's on the bottom they're still not breeding. I've sprayed the sides, left a water bottle in there, and water gel crystals are in there. I'm going to add heat maybe with that insulating idea 'steest' showed us to solve this mystery. It's really starting to make me mad. I keep their food source well stocked: Oranges, carrots, and a homemade chow (Dog food, cat food, oats, and grape nut cereal).

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Found this site from a well known Tarantula keeper/breeder. Robc is his name so credit goes to him.
Do have to pay shipping, think mine was like $8 or something like that. Still a MUCH better deal than any other place that I saw.

Haha, funny we both found the same egg flat source from Robc. I don't even like T's, but I subscribed on Rob's channel because I like watching all his videos. He has a million... One of his videos directed me and you to this Enasco sight for a great deal on egg flats.

[Kreamcheese]

Robc is who inspired me to actually get T's of my own haha. Watched nearly all of his videos. Pretty cool how we both learned of the egg flats from him.

[MonsterPyxie]

Oh alright that's good; yeah thin them out if you think you have too many. Man I just don't know what I've done to cause them so much stress, I mean at most I'll open the lid once a day to check for dead ones or replenish the water gel crystals. We just had a heat wave so the bin got up to like 115F today at the bottom. That probably stressed them out pretty bad, although they could of moved up the egg flats where it dropped to like 90-80s. I keep them in a dark bin in the garage, they don't ever see much light so I don't think they are stressed from that. Maybe just moving the egg flats around and stuff checking for dead ones stressed them out a bit or the heat I have at the bottom.

I keep them in close quarters together, only 3 egg flats in there with about 200 adults. They pretty crammed near the bottom. I'll try to take a picture of my setup so you get an idea of what I'm trying to come across.

I bought 2 heat tape pads off BigAppleHerp to bump up the heat and prepare for winter (I haven't got them yet in shipment). Even though it says 90-100 at the bottom with one of my uth's on the bottom they're still not breeding. I've sprayed the sides, left a water bottle in there, and water gel crystals are in there. I'm going to add heat maybe with that insulating idea 'steest' showed us to solve this mystery. It's really starting to make me mad. I keep their food source well stocked: Oranges, carrots, and a homemade chow (Dog food, cat food, oats, and grape nut cereal).



Haha, funny we both found the same egg flat source from Robc. I don't even like T's, but I subscribed on Rob's channel because I like watching all his videos. He has a million... One of his videos directed me and you to this Enasco sight for a great deal on egg flats.

If you are moving the egg crate around and checking them out daily, that is the first thing I would stop. Peering in once a day shouldn't matter, but I wouldn't pick through the egg crate but maybe once a week. If there is a dead one in the egg crate, chances are they will push it out, just by moving around it.

Think of it from there prospective. If the container is pitch black, then once a day it gets super bright, then all a sudden they get moved around, and such, scaring them to death, or more so making them react to the movement, vibration, and light, its going to stress them out, and make them go in to survival mode, trying to escape the things bothering them.

I know your intention is good, but I think this would be the root cause of there stress.

I'm also subscribed to Robc, and watch most his stuff since I like T's. but must have overlooked the egg crate thing. I seem to remember a video where he had a 50gal tank he put the roaches in, and it was pretty dang full, probably 10,000 roaches, and he said something about egg crates for cheap.

I would like numbers like he has some day. would be kinda cool just to take care of, but also trying to sell a few

[Sublime]

Cheapest egg flats you can buy: Egg Flats - Pkg. of 70, 12" x 12" ~ Egg Carton Art ~ Decorative Crafts

[MonsterPyxie]

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Found this site from a well known Tarantula keeper/breeder. Robc is his name so credit goes to him.
Do have to pay shipping, think mine was like $8 or something like that. Still a MUCH better deal than any other place that I saw.

Cheapest egg flats you can buy: Egg Flats - Pkg. of 70, 12" x 12" ~ Egg Carton Art ~ Decorative Crafts

good stuff guys, with shipping it comes to around 22 cents each, that is crazy good compared to what I paid!

reps all around