Longviewsteven
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I use dermistid (skin beetles) & meal worms to clean my roach colony. I use a Rubbermaid tote to house them.
Housing dubia
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I use dermistid (skin beetles) & meal worms to clean my roach colony. I use a Rubbermaid tote to house them.
Psychobunny
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AKA; carpet beetles.
I always find several of them when I order bulk cricks from Ghann's
SarahcoadunatioZac
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Mealworm beetles won't kill dubia will they? I got acouple pupating and I don't want to breed them just want them to clean up for me.
natureboy86
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So where's everybody getting their dubias from?? I ordered my 1st batch from smallpetfeeders for pretty cheap, but since they're located in ATL and I'm in Cali, the price isn't as great as it could've been. I need about 100 (1/4'' - 1/2'') of them for a good rate
Longviewsteven
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They will not kill the dubias.
Psychobunny
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I havent bought any in so long I forget where I got them.
They are sooooo easy to breed, just stick a uth (under tank heater) at 90F and keep them well fed and hydrated.
There is literally nothing else you need 2 do
get a good sized rubbermaid container. poke a bunch of small air holes in it with like a heated up pin. on the inside of the container, toward the top pf the sides put packaging tape. the babies cannot grip that. i have not had one escape from this method and i've been breeding them for 2 years.
Randi
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Do those holes let enough air in? Do you use any screen in your container?
asongforyou
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So it's good to keep them around? They always kinda freaked me out.
SarahcoadunatioZac
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I would think so, as it makes it so you don't have to clean out the bin. Ever. I don't even want to think about how I would attempt that, to transfer all the roaches at the same time without losing some? Much rather toss in some beetle to keep it clean.
Psychobunny
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Yeah I guess so. I know, they freaked me out too at first, I said wth are these fuzzy, ugly little bugs doing in my cricket order!!??
CC's Baby
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That is exactly how I did my crickets pens, I have 2 for each type of insect. I am going to be doing a matching set of smaller ones for the roaches.I use a 18 gallon sterilite bin, i cut most of the top of the lid and then hot glue aluminum screen to the lid. I have only had a couple of escapes due to too many male in one bin. I think they got territtorial or the female:male ratio was wrong or something and a small gap in the screen. Anyway once i fix the seperated the feeders from the breeders the escapes dropped to 0
Syreptyon
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This thread has been inactive for 7 years lol
Jesspete
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@CC's Baby , but good on you for obviously digging and doing lots of research!
insectovore
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I've had small ones escape. Some of the plastic bins are not as slick as others and they get dusty over time making them easier to climb. Get tall bins to keep egg flats away from the lid, wipe them down from time to time, and you'll be fine. Escaped dubias aren't going to breed like German cockroaches if a few escape anyway. Probably hundreds escaped in my house over the lasy 5 years and it's no big deal
