What's your FAVORITE feeder roach?

What's your fastest breeding roach

  • I will explain in post

    Votes: 17 58.6%

  • I'm not telling

    Votes: 12 41.4%
  • Total voters
    29
Hibiscusmile said:
Humm, maybe because they are so prevelant in the hobby, we feel they are expendable. ;)
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I think us (yes--me too) lizard fans that look for a roach get dubia and say "they're the best feeder ever!" Most don't know there's any species other then lats and dubias <_<

 
Hibiscusmile said:
Humm, maybe because they are so prevelant in the hobby, we feel they are expendable. ;)
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I think this is very possible - they are relatively forgiving species and frankly they are a good looking roach to keep IMO. It's also a big plus that they are sexually dimorphic when they reach maturity and the nymphs are quite cute to the average person compared to other species. I see more B. dubia at shows than just about anything else... they really are a decent feeder and with word of mouth by herp and invert keepers alike going around about them I think their popularity just skyrocketed over the past few years.

Relatively productive, accesible, non-climbing, non-flying, and easy to feed with a decent meat to shell ratio = good feeder roach = )

Not to mention they aren't going to infest your home - not that its overly likely some other species will, but I'm sure the thought of a productive roach that can reaily breed at room temperature like the lobsters and lats draws some popularity away from them still.

I mean, even if you wanted to get another feeder species: you have to LOOK sometimes. B. dubia are everywhere on classifieds, forums, shows, etc. With the exception of a few enthusiasts, there really arent a lot of pure Eublaberus and even Blaberus species readily available to anyone at a reasonable cost to start a feeder colony up. I've been the reptile biz for over a decade, and I can honestly say that even I was ignorant enough to believe that there weren't so many good feeder species of roach. It wasn't until I saw one of Zephyr's ads on fauna that I realized the diversity and beauty of some these guys - now I'm hooked! = )

I'm sure with time more and more people will come around to some of the other species - I purcahsed my orange head colony from Casey and he said I was the first to have inquired about them after the ad had sat for nearly a month, yet he sold thousands of dubia and lats in that time. Most people are just blatantly unaware that so many species exist and can be made good feeders.

 
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makoygaara said:
B. Dubias are cheaper here than compared to E. Posticus that's why many people like them as feeders.
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That also has something to do with it.

When I was cutting down my mega colony of orangeheads over the summer, I sold cups filled to the brim with adults and large nymphs for $5 at a local show. I think I made $200 dollars just in orangeheads that day!

But orangeheads and other Eublaberus are roughly twice the size of dubias, so you'd also assume they'd cost a little more.

 
Zephyr said:
That also has something to do with it.

When I was cutting down my mega colony of orangeheads over the summer, I sold cups filled to the brim with adults and large nymphs for $5 at a local show. I think I made $200 dollars just in orangeheads that day!

But orangeheads and other Eublaberus are roughly twice the size of dubias, so you'd also assume they'd cost a little more.
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Good point.....

 
Personally... I like B. dubia as a feeder,

but the reality is my critters like the Blatta orientalis Linnaeus better, i hope thats the right name...

 
well hisserman i think because they are an invasive species here in AZ. they tacked on the Linnaeus part... lol

 
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ya thay are similar but much more cold tolerant, we have them running around in the store i work at not because of us, but because thay have infested the whole strip mall. thats actually one of the reasons i have a hard time considering them as a feeder roach.

 
Yeah they have that "pest" feel to them, regardless I kept them. But, when the neighbor complains about having the same roaches invading her house, it's time to get rid of them.

It's strange, I kindof miss them. :lol:

 
My favorite feeder is B.dubia.They breed like hell.

But my best breeding colonie must be G.portentosa.I started about a year ago with 20 of them and now i have started 3 new colonies.

My all-time favorite feeder must be b.craniifer.They are simmular to b.dubia in housing and breeding speed but alot bigger.

 
My geckos love lats! Plus they give them some exercise. They still fight over orangeheads though, orangeheads are more spiny but look way cooler

 
I have all and only feed out lats, discoids, and dubia. I will use orangeheads once my colony gets larger though.

 
Dubia's are the cheapest, most widespread, most well thought of feeder roach so I'm not surprised that they have 75% of our votes.

On a reptile or other invert place they might have 100% votes :huh:

 
I lost my discoids, orange heads, lobster, tiger hisser, six spotted and pepperomia, only dubias survived and still thriving. I just started with turkistan,and some pepperomia coming this week. I used to have at least 10 that I trapped outsided our house and produced a lot of egg cases, I don't know what came to my head I throw them away.

Now I have chameleon ask myself why I did it. Maybe next spring I'll setup some traps again.

 
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