oranges with dubia and laterlis increase mating?

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skips

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There was a thread posted on arachnoboards recently attributing massive increases in producation to using oranges or grapefruit in some cases. I personally didn't have any dubia reproducing for months until I added oranges and alot of people have had the experience. Has anybody run into something similar? Is that a documented thing or mass coincidence? Maybe we all on arachnoboards are feeding our roaches nutrient sufficient food, supplemented by oranges?

 
skips said:
There was a thread posted on arachnoboards recently attributing massive increases in producation to using oranges or grapefruit in some cases. I personally didn't have any dubia reproducing for months until I added oranges and alot of people have had the experience. Has anybody run into something similar? Is that a documented thing or mass coincidence? Maybe we all on arachnoboards are feeding our roaches nutrient sufficient food, supplemented by oranges?
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I read somewhere that fresh fruits encourage ova production in roaches.

 
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I'm pretty desperate for nymphs in my hissers and death's heads' tanks. Do "clementines" seem to work the same magic?

 
Ralph said:
I'm pretty desperate for nymphs in my hissers and death's heads' tanks. Do "clementines" seem to work the same magic?
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I would assume so. Like i said, i'm still trying to find out if this has a real basis, but from the amount of people that say it works and absolutely no contradictions I'd say it does. Plus, how long have you had your hissers? My room mate just got nymphs a couple days ago and we've had them since early january. They take a long time. Also, for any invert to breed they need a good protein source. Dog food or catfood works, but if you're only feeding fruit and grain or something it may not be enough. On that though I'm mostly talking from conjecture.

 
skips said:
I would assume so. Like i said, i'm still trying to find out if this has a real basis, but from the amount of people that say it works and absolutely no contradictions I'd say it does. Plus, how long have you had your hissers? My room mate just got nymphs a couple days ago and we've had them since early january. They take a long time. Also, for any invert to breed they need a good protein source. Dog food or catfood works, but if you're only feeding fruit and grain or something it may not be enough. On that though I'm mostly talking from conjecture.
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Protein! That must be it!!! I've had these a long time, my females have been gravid for a long while.

 
Instead of discussing the merits of rumors, lets try to find reliable (peer reviewed or at least professionally published) scientific articles on the topic of Food and Feeding.

Why?

One negative outcome of feeding our roaches and unproven food might be poisoning due to external pesticides or intrinisic poisons. A little imagination will provide other possible negative outcomes.

Would people please make suggestions on how we could possibly find such articles on the internet?

Key words might be:

cockroach +nutrition

-Nino

 
There actually isn't much out there as far as peer reviewed literature on the subject. If you'd like to try looking at journal search databases like Jstore, Academic search Premier, or my favorite Bioone. Entomologists really couldn’t care if fresh fruit increases production in captive cockroach cultures, so I don’t imagine that anybody has published such a thing (you’d probably get laughed at if you tried to publish that sort of data).

 
Long before peer reviewed journals (or the written word) there existed practical knowledge for feeding various livestock. Of course you have to consider the source.

 
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I am actually trying to figure out if they do produce more with oranges or not.

Thinking about splitting up my colony, and feeding them a different diet to try and determine if it really does help.

 
BugmanPrice said:
The peel is just fine. They'll eat out the pulp and leave the rest.
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I put half an orange in my hisser colony today. After about an hour I came back to check on their progress and the only thing left was about an inch of rind. They were eating the peel and all.

 
skips said:
There was a thread posted on arachnoboards recently attributing massive increases in producation to using oranges or grapefruit in some cases. I personally didn't have any dubia reproducing for months until I added oranges and alot of people have had the experience. Has anybody run into something similar? Is that a documented thing or mass coincidence? Maybe we all on arachnoboards are feeding our roaches nutrient sufficient food, supplemented by oranges?
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I've heard this in more than one place, I cant say that I vouch for it though. I will, however, say that oranges are probably my roaches favorite food

 
Hi

Well, that mass coincidence hit me too :lol: !

Many of my roaches reproduce better when adding oranges or orange juice to their food.

But I suppose it would also work with other fruits (but oranges for that purpose are reasonably cheap); but it doesn't as well with bananas.

Grüessli

Andreas

 
I cant say if this is conincidence or not but three days ago I gave all my roaches some slices of orange. Last night I had new nymphs in the hissers and dubias.

 
I gotta tell u they really like the oranges, they eat banana too, but oranges are their fav, sometimes hubby leaves me the peel and they always eat the pulp out of them. :lol:

 
I feed mine dog food, cheap apples and cheap oranges. However I have noticed the pair of Hissers I purchased recently could care less about the orange half in their enclosure. My dubia, lats, discoids, and lobsters love them but the Hissers really don't seem interested one bit. Honestly I haven't seen them eat all week so I'm slightly perplexed.

 
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