Alfacuria Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 lol i can understand why they dont like cilantro. Ehk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCrackerpants Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 My Dominoes eat cherry tomatoes. My Dubias at a small dead kangaroo rat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt K Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 Interesting. I started this thread 5 years ago and just thought to read it through and see what people feed to what and how the feed was accepted, or not.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Cucumbers, no roach will touch them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satchellwk Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Cucumbers, no roach will touch them. Really? My Dubias destroyed almost an entire cucumber in one night; and I gave slices to all my others, and almost everyone ate some. It was pretty overripe though, which might have stimulated a better feeding response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 ya i never have a problem with cucumber all of my roaches seam to like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromphcrazy Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 My hissers won't touch cucumber or raw potato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wodesorel Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Kiwi was the only thing so far that not a single thing touched. Bell pepper wasn't exactly a hit, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpidaFly Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 It's funny that Kiwi is mentioned a few times here - I had a bowl of mango and kiwi that my water dragon refused, so I gave it to my roaches. They devoured the mango completely, but so far as I can tell, ignored the kiwi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZOO CENTRE Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 The Rhino roaches eat kiwi and cucumber and banana roaches eat kiwi too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treebeard Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 My dubias and lateralis eat: cereals apples banana cucumbers melon watermelon figs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatureRocksHard Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 mine dont usually eat those little cuties those little nectarine things that are easy to peal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecrecycling Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Great thread gave me a bunch of roach feeding ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiehisser Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Does the size matter? Just wondering about the fish food I've got, it's not flakes but tiny granules, maybe 1mm in size. Are they actually able to grab such tiny pieces? I've been trying to search pictures of hissers mouth anatomy. They are chewers I presume? So they can't suck up stuff like flies or butterflies? Do they use their legs when they eat, like grab something in their "hand" and put it in their mouth? Or do they just gnaw stuff? If that's the case, it would seem logical to give food in relatively big chunks and then clean out leftovers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLE18 Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 My dubias seemed to like tender stem brocoli, my hissers too. thats the type with the long 'trunk' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLE18 Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Ps - size, I dont know, I normally feed chunks. Even cat food in small chunky buisciuts was difficult to tell what they were eating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiehisser Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Ok after intensive googling I've learnt that they've got these arm like moving things called maxilla that pick up food and take it to the jaw like things called mandibles. But it's still difficult to see if they've actually eaten anything. They've got fish food all the time there and now pineapple (fresh, not canned) and orange. I guess it would be easier to feed them if there were more hissers, maybe then the food would clearly disappear? Hopefully they're happily eating the tree bark I've given them and not having a hunger strike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcbpolish Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Actually, my cockroaches ate Cilantro. (Mine are American cockroaches though, so I can't speak for the "fancy breeds") And my cockroaches also eat carrots, but only when I don't give them apples or such. I second that. I have left over cilantro from some caterpillars I am raising, and my hissers/dubias seem to love it. They won't eat the curly leaf parsley though. I have an idea for how to organize all this data. Perhaps a google spread sheet where different folks can enter info about what their roaches will eat. That way, instead of trying to sort through so much data, you can just take a quick glance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Android raptor Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 My hissers aren't too crazy about grapes for some reason. Never have been. It's weird since I hear other people's hissers love grapes and I make sure to halve them and everything. Same with bananas. They just sit around and attract gnats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonsaladsandwich Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Prunes. I thought they would go nuts (especially since I haven't fed them anything sweet in a while) but it's been 3 days and they haven't touched them. Strange considering the way they pick all the raisins out of raisin bran. Celery wasn't a big hit either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregor Samsa Mendel Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 mine dont usually eat those little cuties those little nectarine things that are easy to peal I give my domino roaches the inside fibers and inner peel of "cutie" mandarin oranges and they fight over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDubiasDemiGod Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 I put some cantelope in my roach tanks last week. I thought they would love it since it's soft and sweet but they barely touched it. I gave it to b. fusca, peppereds, hissers, banana roaches, etc. The only roaches that ate it were my dubias. I have yet to find a food that dubias won't eat though. My Dubias weren't overly joyed by cantaloupe :l I've even had them eat eggshell! Also they barely touched strawberries But I generally stay away from bananas as well because for some reason the pesticide causes problems in my colony. Maybe organic would be fine but they aren't overjoyed when it's introduced regardless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arachyd Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 I've found my Dubias love bananas, as long as they are ripe. They also seem to really enjoy curly and regular varieties of dock leaves (Rumex crispus and related). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Lemon Guava is a tough sell at my place! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njnolan1 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 I'm new to keeping roaches. I mean I had 6 female dubias for the past year but when I got them I was going to feed them to the gecko. They turned out to be too big so I kept them as pets. All I gave them was cricket chow and water crystals for. I tried apples and bananas and other than a nibble on the apple they don't seem interested in it. They LOVE the water crystals and they all seem nice and fat. But now I added 7 nymphs and 6 large question mark nymphs to a larger enclosure. I'm hoping to see some different behaviors in eating but so far no luck. The cricket chow wasn't even nibbled nor the flax seed. I put in banana yesterday and it doesn't appear anyone cares about that either. They're living in a ton of crumbled oak and some other leaves (that have remoistened) so maybe they're good with that. The temperatures have dropped too in my house. This is a great thread to see how picky some roaches can be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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