Breeding? Bugs for food

[mbarn11]

I have a chameleon and a baby bearded dragon that I feed crickets right now. Our pet store is really expensive and the crickets die fast so I have to buy crickets every 2 days. I want to save some money and I thought having my own bugs would help. What would be a good insect that's not too complicated
to care for and breed?

 

[Andee]

There are so many out there XD

Dubias or roaches are some of the easiest to breed depending on the species you get. I have a colony that has been with me for around 3+ years now and 1000+ strong and constantly producing <3 love my roaches. I am also getting several other species that will breed like crazy. Stick insects are good, though I am not sure if your beardie will eat them, and they are slightly more complicated. If you have a self sufficient set up for super worms they are easy. Silkworms can be easy slightly more complicated than most roach species. Isopods, simple, make sure they have a little bit of air flow, and some nice humidity and enough soil and food and they will be fine. Crickets are breedable but annoyingly smelly and more complicated than most people want. Wax worms are rather easy to breed, but you shouldn't do too many because they shouldn't be fed off too often. Butterworms CANNOT be bred unless you live out of the US. I have more but those are simple ones and most of the ones I started out with and still have going now.

 

[mbarn11]

There are so many out there XD

Dubias or roaches are some of the easiest to breed depending on the species you get. I have a colony that has been with me for around 3+ years now and 1000+ strong and constantly producing <3 love my roaches. I am also getting several other species that will breed like crazy. Stick insects are good, though I am not sure if your beardie will eat them, and they are slightly more complicated. If you have a self sufficient set up for super worms they are easy. Silkworms can be easy slightly more complicated than most roach species. Isopods, simple, make sure they have a little bit of air flow, and some nice humidity and enough soil and food and they will be fine. Crickets are breedable but annoyingly smelly and more complicated than most people want. Wax worms are rather easy to breed, but you shouldn't do too many because they shouldn't be fed off too often. Butterworms CANNOT be bred unless you live out of the US. I have more but those are simple ones and most of the ones I started out with and still have going now.

I think I might go with the roaches! Thank you so much!

 

[mbarn11]

There are so many out there XD

Dubias or roaches are some of the easiest to breed depending on the species you get. I have a colony that has been with me for around 3+ years now and 1000+ strong and constantly producing <3 love my roaches. I am also getting several other species that will breed like crazy. Stick insects are good, though I am not sure if your beardie will eat them, and they are slightly more complicated. If you have a self sufficient set up for super worms they are easy. Silkworms can be easy slightly more complicated than most roach species. Isopods, simple, make sure they have a little bit of air flow, and some nice humidity and enough soil and food and they will be fine. Crickets are breedable but annoyingly smelly and more complicated than most people want. Wax worms are rather easy to breed, but you shouldn't do too many because they shouldn't be fed off too often. Butterworms CANNOT be bred unless you live out of the US. I have more but those are simple ones and most of the ones I started out with and still have going now.

What does your set up contain for your roaches?

 

[Andee]

It depends on the species. Where do you live? Some states and in Canada it is not legal to have certain roaches or roaches at all.

 

[mbarn11]

It depends on the species. Where do you live? Some states and in Canada it is not legal to have certain roaches or roaches at all.

I live in Texas.