Things roaches in general won't eat:

I tossed in a tamale and found a week later that the only thing that had taken to it was maggots. I guess no more of that. It really depends on the species and how hungry they are.

 
Matt K said:
<!--quoteo(post=5460:date=Mar 26 2008, 07:48 PM:name=BugmanPrice)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BugmanPrice @ Mar 26 2008, 07:48 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=5460"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Sorry for replying so late but what are "baby pine trees"? I mean are we talking small evergreens? Maybe it was a joke I missed...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

...Could be a substitute for a kitchen sink....
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I know this is several years later.... talk about a late reply.

I actually had received a small pine tree at a fair.. it was just a little torey pine no taller then five inches... I needed to put it down for a moment so i set it down in with the hissers.... came back a few hours later when i remembered and they had eaten the entire tree.... i was sad that they had just eaten my new tree. but startled that they would eat a living pine.

 
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It's never too late to add a reply to a thread like this. It is interesting to note that a colony is reported to have eaten a small pine.

 
My dubia enjoy an occasional stillborn rabbit. They eat everything but the bones and leave the fragile skeleton intact. I also learned recently that they will eat the assorted fresh greens I give my rabbits as a treat every day (pesticide-free lawn clippings, mulberry leaves, raspberry leaves, apple leaves, clover and assorted lawn weeds).

 
What dog/cat foods do the roaches seem to prefer. I'm trying blue buffalo finicky feast cat food and blue buffalo lamb and brown rice dog food. They don't seem to love it as much as some other foods I have tried. Which would be the favorite brand/flavors for dubia?

 
Celery... My dubias wont touch it, and I do believe that Ken's roaches wont either. You'd have to verify with him though. I just remember trading some veggies with them one day because none of their roaches would eat it, so I figured I'd see if mine would, and they didn't.

 
wojcik49 said:
What dog/cat foods do the roaches seem to prefer. I'm trying blue buffalo finicky feast cat food and blue buffalo lamb and brown rice dog food. They don't seem to love it as much as some other foods I have tried. Which would be the favorite brand/flavors for dubia?
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My roaches loves Nutro chicken flavoured dry cat food. at that time I was only feeding dubias and Fuscas.

I'll be testing out Halo brand cat food tonight. And apparently Dubias love Algea wafers for bottom feeders.

Apparently they LOVE Halo brand catfood "Spot's Stew, Wholesome turkey Recipe" Sensitive formula. I just put a few pieces of kibble in there and they've already swarmed it... Some are even fighting over it, and I just fed them a large meal two days ago.

 
When do feed my roaches dog food I usally use solid gold holistique blenz because that's what I use on with my dogs, and honestly it depends more on the species when it comes to who likes it and who doesn't. The one fruit I've found thay like the least is Cantiloup that just didn't seem that interested I to it.

 
arachyd said:
My dubia enjoy an occasional stillborn rabbit. They eat everything but the bones and leave the fragile skeleton intact. I also learned recently that they will eat the assorted fresh greens I give my rabbits as a treat every day (pesticide-free lawn clippings, mulberry leaves, raspberry leaves, apple leaves, clover and assorted lawn weeds).
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I won't give an actual uncooked dead animal, but my dubia love cooked hamburger and turkey for thanksgiving. The females especially crave protein and I find more protein means more, healthier broods.

 
Interesting. I started this thread 5 years ago and just thought to read it through and see what people feed to what and how the feed was accepted, or not....

 
Keith said:
Cucumbers, no roach will touch them.
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Really? My Dubias destroyed almost an entire cucumber in one night; and I gave slices to all my others, and almost everyone ate some. It was pretty overripe though, which might have stimulated a better feeding response.

 
Kiwi was the only thing so far that not a single thing touched. Bell pepper wasn't exactly a hit, either.

 
It's funny that Kiwi is mentioned a few times here - I had a bowl of mango and kiwi that my water dragon refused, so I gave it to my roaches. They devoured the mango completely, but so far as I can tell, ignored the kiwi :)

 
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