I do't know much about Red Runners, but a friend of mine that has a massive Dubia colony (as well as Orange Head and Ivory Head roaches) prefers Orange Head roaches for feeders. He says they have more meat on them for their size so your bearded dragons and other pets that eat roaches have less exoskeleton to digest.
LoveBugFarm, It would be good (and fun) to be able to follow those month to month reports on breeding roaches to see at what temperature, protein and other food sources, humidity, amount of light, amount of time they are disturbed per day/week, etc., and see how the numbers of deaths and reproductive amounts vary from test to test.
My first and only attempt with raising crickets failed for the most part, but after reading and seeing how many people swore how easy it was to breed roaches with barely more than no attention what-so-ever, I decided I'd give it a shot. I was tired of buying crickets and seeing so many die by the time they were fed off, and how many died in shipping or the first day or two after shipping due to the cold, so having my own source of bugs in-house per se seemed to be the answer.
Oh, for people still using crickets, I read somewhere (not sure if it is true or not though), that you should try to remove dead crickets, or maybe ventilate the enclosure as when crickets die, their bodies put off a gas that is harmful to the other crickets. Has anybody heard this, or have any idea if it is true? I don't really plan on having crickets again so it doesn't really matter to me, but if it shares knowledge that will help... :0)
I'd share my feeder roach source, but I get the impression from her e-mail today that she is about at the point she has too many customers already and is raising the prices 25%, which still leaves her under any other price I could find.
I checked back in for the side by side roach taste test between the Fluker Farms High Calcium cricket food and the Lugarti's Premium Dubia Diet, and although I believe the Dubia Diet is probably better for the roaches, they ate about 70% of the Flukers cricket food, and about 30% of the Dubia Diet, so they prefer the taste of the Fluker cricket food. I also read somewhere that roaches love hard boiled eggs to the point the poster said his male roaches were actually fighting over it, but I put two slices of hard boiled eggs into my bin and they barely touched the white or yellow parts and they just dried up.
LoveBugFarm, It would be good (and fun) to be able to follow those month to month reports on breeding roaches to see at what temperature, protein and other food sources, humidity, amount of light, amount of time they are disturbed per day/week, etc., and see how the numbers of deaths and reproductive amounts vary from test to test.
My first and only attempt with raising crickets failed for the most part, but after reading and seeing how many people swore how easy it was to breed roaches with barely more than no attention what-so-ever, I decided I'd give it a shot. I was tired of buying crickets and seeing so many die by the time they were fed off, and how many died in shipping or the first day or two after shipping due to the cold, so having my own source of bugs in-house per se seemed to be the answer.
Oh, for people still using crickets, I read somewhere (not sure if it is true or not though), that you should try to remove dead crickets, or maybe ventilate the enclosure as when crickets die, their bodies put off a gas that is harmful to the other crickets. Has anybody heard this, or have any idea if it is true? I don't really plan on having crickets again so it doesn't really matter to me, but if it shares knowledge that will help... :0)
I'd share my feeder roach source, but I get the impression from her e-mail today that she is about at the point she has too many customers already and is raising the prices 25%, which still leaves her under any other price I could find.
I checked back in for the side by side roach taste test between the Fluker Farms High Calcium cricket food and the Lugarti's Premium Dubia Diet, and although I believe the Dubia Diet is probably better for the roaches, they ate about 70% of the Flukers cricket food, and about 30% of the Dubia Diet, so they prefer the taste of the Fluker cricket food. I also read somewhere that roaches love hard boiled eggs to the point the poster said his male roaches were actually fighting over it, but I put two slices of hard boiled eggs into my bin and they barely touched the white or yellow parts and they just dried up.
