Szush
New Member
Hi all,
Um... I don't have a cham. I've got a leopard gecko... I breed for him dubia roaches, I got a couple starter colonies to start from. At first I had 0 success, which was due to me mesing with them, but after I started buying mealies and leaving my dubias alone they bred. Very fast. Got around a 1000 babies now.
When I discovered the die off, I first opened their cage I was greeted by a horrible ammonia like smell. Last week I cleaned out 10ish (3 today) dead adults along with few sub adults. Some babies seem weak, they don't move fast when touched.
What I'm thinking: No problems, my brain is just fried and I imagine stuff or it's just natural selection at work as rest seems okay..
Some maybe useful info about the set up:
I use a germination pad as a heating source, and a cheap, but surprisingly very good thermostat. It was set at 37°C, temperature never reached it inside. But I guess it was warm enough for them to breed. I lowered it to 32.6 I think, today.
Feeding & Nutrition:
I did not feed them for a while to not disturb them. I feed them veggies and fruits they chew on, some citruses occasionally for vitamin C. I did give them some dry cat food, 60% proteins. But I read that even 24% is too high for them and could have caused a die off? I use the same food for my hissing roaches, and yet none of them are affected by this.
Not sure what to think.. Honestly, I am at loss.. I will want to order more of them, but I feel like I should know what happened and whether it's something wrong with them or I did something wrong which has caused them to die so I can prevent that.
I will appreciate anything at this point!
P.S.
Their lid is closed, so maybe no circulation is the problem? I will want to get rid of the lid at all and upgrade their heat source to a CHE and dimming stat for better heat output.
Here is the current set up, but in a wrong position.. for some reason:
Um... I don't have a cham. I've got a leopard gecko... I breed for him dubia roaches, I got a couple starter colonies to start from. At first I had 0 success, which was due to me mesing with them, but after I started buying mealies and leaving my dubias alone they bred. Very fast. Got around a 1000 babies now.
When I discovered the die off, I first opened their cage I was greeted by a horrible ammonia like smell. Last week I cleaned out 10ish (3 today) dead adults along with few sub adults. Some babies seem weak, they don't move fast when touched.
What I'm thinking: No problems, my brain is just fried and I imagine stuff or it's just natural selection at work as rest seems okay..
Some maybe useful info about the set up:
I use a germination pad as a heating source, and a cheap, but surprisingly very good thermostat. It was set at 37°C, temperature never reached it inside. But I guess it was warm enough for them to breed. I lowered it to 32.6 I think, today.
Feeding & Nutrition:
I did not feed them for a while to not disturb them. I feed them veggies and fruits they chew on, some citruses occasionally for vitamin C. I did give them some dry cat food, 60% proteins. But I read that even 24% is too high for them and could have caused a die off? I use the same food for my hissing roaches, and yet none of them are affected by this.
Not sure what to think.. Honestly, I am at loss.. I will want to order more of them, but I feel like I should know what happened and whether it's something wrong with them or I did something wrong which has caused them to die so I can prevent that.
I will appreciate anything at this point!
P.S.
Their lid is closed, so maybe no circulation is the problem? I will want to get rid of the lid at all and upgrade their heat source to a CHE and dimming stat for better heat output.
Here is the current set up, but in a wrong position.. for some reason: