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Your Phoenix worms (black soldier fly larvae) must have been ordered as very large, in the last stage before turning into the fly. Hard to justify spending $180.00 for the biopod but if you’ve got it, go for it. Check Youtube and you can find several home made tubs converted to self harvesting...

There is a fishing worm that is sold as a Nitro worm, in which the night crawlers are dyed green by feeding them food coloring for a few days before sale, and another process where they coat them with a phosphor to make them really glow under water. The food coloring they use for the worms is...

It would be cool to breed a million or so and try to find a flightless one to breed.

Phoenix worms, Nutriworms, ReptiWorms are all the same thing, they are the maggot or “grub” (sounds better) of the Black Soldier Fly. These companies have trademarked the grub phase somehow because of a proprietary diet or something but they are all a very common garbage munching larvae of a fly...

If you’ve got mixed sizes together start noticing if the dead ones are all larger. They only live a short time and if you don’t feed off the older ones they just die naturally. I think a lot of people think they are doing something wrong when the only thing happening is you aren’t feeding them...

The pictures are really great. I hope you can write a more detailed account on your success that others can copy and have a go at raising them.

It is important to keep the super small hatching crickets humid so they can molt. You can’t keep them in a dry set up like adults, they will all die. Once they are pinhead size, you can set them up basically like the adults.

VeiledChams- if you are in Broward County, check out Ben Siegel’s. They sell discoids. I started a colony from theirs. (Ben Siegel on Hillsboro west of I95 they are across the street from where they used to be)

They are very easy to keep and will lay eggs in a deep butter tub filled with sand and you can hatch out some that you know will be safe to eat. I would feed the adults for a few weeks before feeding them to chameleons to purge the gut, they do absorb toxins from agriculture. It is very easy to...

I think your best bet is get a few dubia or discoids and start a small colony. I think you will find, as I have, the roaches are unlike what you imagine. They are very clean, don’t fly, very easy to handle and you will really start to like them. After you have had both, don’t be surprised if...

We have a wild population down here, they get HUGE! I think they need a walk in!

The Agrosok root watering crystals that Lowes carries seems to be a smaller “curd” size than some of the others when fully hydrated. Like the size of a lentil bean versus the ones I’ve seen that were a lot chunkier. They are the same thing, does the same thing, but just a heads up on the size, I...

I started a colony of discoids, which seem to be very similar to dubia. I am in Florida so dubia were not possible for me. One thing I am trying, instead of egg crate I am using Jiffy strips, which are little peat and wood pulp cups for starting plants. They are much deeper than egg crate and...

Great response, I was looking all over the internet and couldn’t find decent pictures of the nymphs (I just started with discoids) to sex them. Is this difference as obvious on the smallest ones too right away?

Thermoelectrics are highly dependant on the ambient temps of the room they are in. If you have great fluctuations, it won’t really work right. I have a mini fridge I converted to a brumator for cooling snakes. It holds the set temp perfectly until the room (in my case my business warehouse) got...

My only suggestion would be stack two together so you can just lift out the one with the bugs to unload it and set it right back into the other that stays in the dug out spot! Please post some of your catches.:)

You captured, and shared, the spirit of the day. Made people smile today. I thought it was a good one.;)

I am not allowed to have Dubias in Florida, but I was working in the yard over the weekend and discovered I have many Florida Skunk roaches under boulders and logs in my yard. They actually look somewhat like Dubias with very short useless wings. I’m going to start a colony from them and see how...

Everything is perfect. The lighting, plants, substrate, drainage, opaque feeding cups, looks like you have been taking all the advice to heart. I just wanted to be the first to offer that response to one of these posts.

I would go with the red white and blue theme with the Faly's and name him after the star spangled banner, so "Star".:)