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#1792227
Doug2
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Roaches 
What is the most nutritious feeder roach on the market? If you don’t know what do you recommend?
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07/12/08 10:09am
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#1794686
Doug2
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Message To: Doug2 In reference to Message Id: 1792227
Roaches
I was thinking of getting hissing roaches?
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07/14/08 11:13am
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#1794719
Kleie777
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Message To: Doug2 In reference to Message Id: 1794686
Roaches
Lobster roaches.They are really nutricous.
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07/14/08 11:54am
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#1801659
JackAsp
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Message To: Kleie777 In reference to Message Id: 1794719
Roaches
Adult hissers actually have one of the higher shell to meat ratios of commonly kept species, so that would be a point agains them nutritionally if you plan on feeding the adults to something. However, they grow very quickly, so you can watch for nymphs that have freshly shed. I know someone who specifically prefers them for that reason; a freshly shed anything is better than a lighter-shelled species that’s at it’s normal everyday crunchiness, so she figures that the best feeder colony is the one that has the most freshly-shed feeders in it on any given day.
Dubias are at the opposite end of the spectrum, chitonwise. Very soft-bodied compared to most other big roaches, but they’re also smaller than hissers, which might be a con for you.
What are you feeding?
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07/19/08 06:43am
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#1802861
Doug2
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Message To: JackAsp In reference to Message Id: 1801659
Roaches
3 bearded dragons
1 frilled dragon
1 veiled chameleon
1 Chinese water dragon
or any thing that can eat them
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07/20/08 09:33am
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#1803667
JackAsp
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Message To: Doug2 In reference to Message Id: 1802861
Roaches
Most of those, assuming they’re adults, could eat pretty much any roach you wanted to give them. So if you wanted to use hissers, and gave the chameleon first dibs on recently-shed ones if they’re weren’t a lot that day, I guess that would work fine. If once in a while he ate a harder-shelled one, that wouldn’t be the end of the world either, but in general just pick out the soft ones for the most delicate animal, and if there’s other soft ones don’t be shy about letting the others have those, because the next day they’ll be crunchy again anyway. My sheen skink is perfectly capable of eating and passing an adult death roach (although she’ll often shake them around and get rid if the wings first, just because she doesn’t really like eating crunchy wings and she was smart enough to figure out they were detatchable) but when I have a nice white freshly molted on she acts like a kid that sees an ice cream truck and devours the whole thing as fast as she can get her jaws on it. I’m sure a still-soft hisser would be just as tasty.
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07/21/08 01:34am
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#1822018
Doug2
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Message To: JackAsp In reference to Message Id: 1803667
Roaches
The roaches I like are
lobster
hisser
Discoids
Dubia
Are these all big and nutritious
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08/06/08 05:52pm
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#1826400
Doug2
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Message To: Doug2 In reference to Message Id: 1822018
Roaches
bump
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08/10/08 08:05pm
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#1833668
JackAsp
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Message To: Doug2 In reference to Message Id: 1826400
Roaches
Hissers are the biggest. Dubias are the most nutritious, pound for pound, because they have the least shell. Lobsters are the tiniest. Unless you’re feeding treefrogs or house geckos, i don’t know why anyone messes with lobsters.
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08/17/08 08:58am
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#1890006
Zoc31
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Message To: Doug2 In reference to Message Id: 1792227
 Roaches
What about german roaches?
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10/29/08 08:00pm
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#1903426
JackAsp
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Message To: Zoc31 In reference to Message Id: 1890006
Roaches
CB German roaches would be pretty much the same as lobster roaches. Very fast and annoying and prone to escaping everywhere, but soft-bodies and nutritious. I’ve heard of people opting to raise them, but I’ll stick with non-climbers.
Currently I’m finding orange-heads to be ridiculously easy to breed. And although they’re faster runners than cranifers, fuscas, or discoids, they’re even worse climbers than any of those.
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11/23/08 02:05am
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