Bless Dubia Roaches!

[froggielog]

Okay so today I thought I would give crickets ago. So I went out and bought 24 small ones....lord almightily can these things hop! I tried making cup after cup feeder things to contain them in the cage, but they never stopped.
Haha Im laughing at myself because I guess this is normal for every one who uses crickets, but just ewww, I will never use them. Their obsessive hopping gives me the creeps. dubia roaches <3

Gross I think one escaped in my room

 

[Trillian]

I've been a long-time cricket user, they are the most easily available feeders in the UK, but I'm swapping to dubias. My first batch should arrive in the mail any day now. Can't wait!!! All my scaly guys should love them, except the python and the tortoises.

 

[Drago]

Gross I think one escaped in my room

ONE!?! lol.

I keep mine outside on my second floor balcony, transfer 10-12 into a plastic deli container to bring to my chams cage. Right after I closed the sliding door and turned, I dropped the cup...in the house. Crickets went every freaking direction The only thing I could do was laugh. They'll starve soon enough...I hope.

 

[Trillian]

Good luck with that... Takes a good few weeks of incessant chirping all bloody night before they either die or go and annoy your neighbours! Had to take a can of Raid to the vents under the oven last week... damned noisy bugs...

 

[Drago]

Good luck with that... Takes a good few weeks of incessant chirping all bloody night before they either die or go and annoy your neighbours! Had to take a can of Raid to the vents under the oven last week... damned noisy bugs...

LOL - This happened over a week ago, they were pins & quarters. They don't have the rakes on their legs yet to chirp.

 

[ASublimeDay]

I've lost adults in my house before and the chirping is maddening. The satisfaction of catching/feeding to your reptile the cricket that has been driving you nuts for a week is indescribable.

 

[Crruxxy]

It's only the males that chirp and also they use their wings! Not their legs to chirp. The wings have something like a comb on the underside of the wing. Kill off the males, no more chirp

 

[Drago]

It's only the males that chirp and also they use their wings! Not their legs to chirp. The wings have something like a comb on the underside of the wing. Kill off the males, no more chirp

Thanks for the info, always learning. I thought the comb (what I called a rake) was on the legs...always learning Now...how do we sex crickets?

 

[bork da basher]

dubias are so much better than crickets. im only keeping crickets til my dubia colony is established then i'll only be getting them in smaller quantities for variety, they stink and the chirping drives me nuts.

 

[italian chameleon]

The satisfaction of catching/feeding to your reptile the cricket that has been driving you nuts for a week is indescribable.

i couldn't agree more!

 

[Drago]

dubias are so much better than crickets. im only keeping crickets til my dubia colony is established then i'll only be getting them in smaller quantities for variety, they stink and the chirping drives me nuts.

Yea - we can't have Dubia in FL but a forum member here gave me some Discoid roaches to start my own colony. I'm using crickets until I get my colony established as well.

I did throw a couple of the smaller Discords into my chams cage just to see, but he was completely disinterested. They were in there for a couple days before I removed them and put them back with the other roaches.

I hope this colony project isn't all in vein

 

[AngieL]

ONE!?! lol.

I keep mine outside on my second floor balcony, transfer 10-12 into a plastic deli container to bring to my chams cage. Right after I closed the sliding door and turned, I dropped the cup...in the house. Crickets went every freaking direction The only thing I could do was laugh. They'll starve soon enough...I hope.

I dropped one cricket in my living room! Set a trap for it and everything but no joy. Then a couple of days later we saw it climbing up the curtains! I guess it was going for the light so be sure to check around the window area

Also I buy 'silent' brown crickets. They don't chirp until they get the win gs but even then it's sooooooo quiet I can hardly hear them!

 

[Rottsko]

dubias are so much better than crickets. im only keeping crickets til my dubia colony is established then i'll only be getting them in smaller quantities for variety, they stink and the chirping drives me nuts.

Beware!!! A couple of months ago I was done with crix too. For a couple of weeks, all my chams were loving the dubias...and then hunger strike. I fought for about a week and I caved and bought crix. Before I could even dump the crix in the cage, the chams were shooting their tongues at it. Now I have crix and dubias. They'll eat dubias every now and then but they love them some crix!

 

[Rottsko]

Something to help catch loose crix is the bug paper. The ones with the side that is really, really sticky and they roll/fold into a box. I have these in my cham room along the walls and the corners. There are a ton of loose crix on them. Glad I have them or I might as well be living outside....