What's your FAVORITE feeder roach?

[hisserman]

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...

Hmmmmm. I haven't heard of that one, just Blatta orientalis.

[DLPBugs]

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

[hisserman]

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

Oh okay that makes sense..... so they'd be just like lats......

[Ozymandias]

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.

[hisserman]

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.

[hisserman]

BUMP....

We have anyone else? Where's Matt and Orin?

[ann_rob]

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.

[Wolverine]

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

[hisserman]

OK interesting results! I have a question though:

How many of you own ALL (besides exotic) of the above?

[Ozymandias]

ya i have all of them and will be using all of them as feeders except for the hissers

[vfox]

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

[hisserman]

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

[Wolverine]

Go with the lats. Geckos love them! Like my dubias and orangeheads too much, but if there was surplus.

[Dennis]

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.

[jebbewocky]

Dubia:

1.) Sexually dimorphic.

2.) No defensive odor or stickiness

3.) Lats=too much like pest roaches for me

4.) They breed for me--lats wouldn't!

[MantisMan]

nauphoeta cinerea, lobster roach

grow fast

breed fast

breed prolifically

managable size for most of my animals

hardy

fun to watch

eat well

what's not to love??