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#1795197
Frilledup
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Breeding food 
has anyone tried breeding worms??
also, can u feed frillys catepillars from outside??
Thanks
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07/14/08 05:24pm
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#1796273
FrillyKeeper
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Message To: Frilledup In reference to Message Id: 1795197
Breeding food
like mealworms?
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07/15/08 01:41pm
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#1806226
Silabiss
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Message To: FrillyKeeper In reference to Message Id: 1796273
Breeding food
I wouldn’t feed any herp (reptiles and amphibians) wild caught insects from outside. There is a large risk of pesticides and fertilizers that can harm your animal, potentially killing it. Stay away from lightning bugs most of all, they kill bearded dragons and possibly other herps.
As for breeding your own feeders, there is a large amount of information on it. I have bred almost everything there is and have started up breeding horn worms again, which is the most difficult feeder insect to breed. Its fairly simply and cheap to breed crickets, meal worms, Zoophoba, wax worms and easiest of all, roaches.
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07/23/08 02:27pm
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#1806839
Frilledup
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Message To: Silabiss In reference to Message Id: 1806226
Breeding food
so what’s the process for breeding roaches???
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07/23/08 11:00pm
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Silabiss
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Message To: Frilledup In reference to Message Id: 1806839
Breeding food
Depending on species (climbers are not really recommended, we have lobsters loose in the lab and i hate it) its quiet simple. Many people will use a container of some sort, and basically use egg crate as climbing area. Feed them every few days and its a good idea to heat them to around 85 degrees, possibly higher if your room is cool. Our substrate is rabbit pellets, its something they can dig in and eat, as well its cheap to get. If you need some humidity just use peat instead, or a few people leave it bare bottom. Makes cleaning a lot easier. There are plenty of roach breeders online now, most of them have pages explaining basic setup and care. usually takes around 4-6 months to get a colony established, but once its up and running you can get a good amount of food from it. Roaches are better nutritionally than crickets, offer much more meat per serving and vary in size from 1/8" up to 3" (hissers get big and our large male NG gets them as a nice treat).
Hope that offers a little bit more info, i just heard Rex crunching on a large roach just now actually.
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07/25/08 12:57pm
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FrillyKeeper
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Message To: Silabiss In reference to Message Id: 1808311
Breeding food
acually i love breeding lobster roaches cus they breed very very fast and all you need is some food grease or vaseline to keep them in. My frillies also apsolutely love them.
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07/25/08 02:50pm
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Silabiss
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Message To: FrillyKeeper In reference to Message Id: 1808417
Breeding food
They do reproduce quickly, and its no doubt that many animals will devour them. Its more of the issue of them getting loose in the area and possibly getting established, annoying you by being in your sock drawer or finding its way to your kitchen and living on the wall behind your fridge. One pregnant female can pretty much ruin things for you when you want them gone. I froze the last of our colony a year and half ago, yet we still have a few cages they live in. If they were in gecko enclosures it would just be more food for them, but Frilled and Bearded dragons are diurnal, which means they will not be eating the roaches at night. So now we continue to find lobster roaches in odd places, and just kill them. Hoping to slow down the reproduction a bit and eventually rid the Lab of them. The only other species we have that can climb are hissers, which are much easier to control. This is what i get for not supervising everyone who wanted to feed roaches to dragons, thank god its not my house or apt.
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07/25/08 06:41pm
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