ok I was wondering if 276 dubia roaches with 3 adult females and 2 adult males would be a good starter colony? and would it be ok to put them in oatmeal?
I already bread meal worms and super worms and crickets. now onto a new project.
also I thought about breeding grass hoppers.
input...
my male veiled eats ficus tree leafs. he won't eat anything else just the ficus leafs. I am thinking of going to umbrella for him. my panther has 2 umbrella tree's. my veil has a small umbrella tree and for some reason he won't eat the leafs. i even offer him other greens and he refuses to eat...
mine is the same brand but looks like a frog. lol I took his eyes off. and attached pve pipe to the hole. he he he. I have a thread on it with pictures. mine runs all day and gets turned off at night when I cover my chams cage for bed time. plus I have a vicks one that runs all the time...
they look like hybreds
I have some that look just like these.
yes they do bite and yes they do eat things alive. I had some eat one of my leopard gecko's. NOT COOL! so now i turn 2 loose in the cage (leopards) make sure they eat those 2 and and add as needed. while i watch. what they don't...
are you using a spiral florescent bulb?
if so let me give you a small piece of advice.
i have a female panter she was doing great good aim ect.
well I got stupid and put her under a spiral bulb needless to say her aim is horiable I feel so bad and its my fualt.
do yourself a favor and buy a...
I use old towels on the sides of my cage they gather moisture and release it. just like stated above lots of live plants, a mister. ect. I am in arizona witch is desert. and I use a cold air humidifier in the winter I will be using a warm air humidifier. the more equipment the more maintenance...
awww problem solved. they make a brush for cleaning fish tank tubes and pipes. also I did not glue my pipes together easy to disasimble. easy to clean. alittle bleach and white vinager works wonders.
thanks for the advice!
oh yeah The one I got is a cold mist humidifier. just for your info. when I put it on my chams cage a week later they started shedding. I noticed they sit under the humififier. my female has already shedded and my veil is shedding as we speak. I picked up a warm mist humidifier and in the works...
make sure you cover the back and sides! I am sitting at 60% humidity in between the low and medium setting.I've gotten it up to 100% with out the chams in the cage I try to stick around 60% to 75%