roaches and circkets

[chamboi18]

can roaches and crickets be housed together since they eat the same things and are verry similar

 

[Tygerr]

I would think not. Simply put, crickets don't really eat the SAME things as cockroaches, they eat ANYTHING!
That's the biggest problem I think you'd face if you kept them together: your crickets would probably end up snacking on your roaches.
What would you do when the roaches start producing offspring? Cricket-chow...

Also, crickets are notoriously messy bugs. Roaches are far less maintenance. By keeping them together you just lose the benefit of keeping roaches in the first place.

Not a good idea.

 

[Sassy]

can roaches and crickets be housed together since they eat the same things and are verry similar

Honestly, why would you even want crickets LOL Just my opinion, but I switched from crickets to dubia roaches 2 years ago and never looked back. Nutrition wise they are WAY better and roaches dont stink 1/2 as bad as crickets, this is my opinion......raise roaches...not crickets

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Honestly, why would you even want crickets

The reason we still use them here is because some chameleons (Kitty) won't eat roaches.
He lives in happy harmony with them, never considers them food, sometimes displays if one approaches ... but wouldn't think of eating it.

-Brad

 

[joefarah]

The reason we still use them here is because some chameleons (Kitty) won't eat roaches.
He lives in happy harmony with them, never considers them food, sometimes displays if one approaches ... but wouldn't think of eating it.

-Brad

Give him a few days without food and see what happens... Orkin will want him as their mascot

 

[Brian]

The reason we still use them here is because some chameleons (Kitty) won't eat roaches.
He lives in happy harmony with them, never considers them food, sometimes displays if one approaches ... but wouldn't think of eating it.

-Brad

Thats funny...one of my chams only eats roaches He hates crickets now that he's tried roaches and has been eating then for a few months now I think Im going to try a new species of roach like discoids or something so I wont run out of dubias. Its true that the crickets will start eating or hurt the dubias, I used to put the crickets and dubias In a container together for a few hours to gutload them before I feed them off...and they would be picking on the dubias the whole time. Now I gutload them in seperate containers

Brian

 

[Sassy]

The reason we still use them here is because some chameleons (Kitty) won't eat roaches.
He lives in happy harmony with them, never considers them food, sometimes displays if one approaches ... but wouldn't think of eating it.

-Brad

ha ha ha - bummer - that would drive me nuts LOL

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Give him a few days without food and see what happens... Orkin will want him as their mascot

Joe,
That is good advice ... but has already been tried (more than once)
He does not recognize them as food.
He's a big baby and only wants superworms, silkworms and sometimes crickets.
Gut loading is that much more important here, since variety is not an option he wants to consider.
He behaved the same way with the walking sticks (which we no longer keep)
The girls, however, will eat anything I put in front of them.

-Brad

 

[joefarah]

I believe it Brad. Over the years I have definately observed personal preferences in Chameleons... even within the same species. The picky ones always amuse me. For some reason I find it funny when they snub a certain food source...