Ghoul 9 Posted March 5, 2019 Report Share Posted March 5, 2019 Mine only seem to like fish food and apple so far, but I want to give them some variety (besides different fish foods lol). They seem to love gammarus and the flakes the most, but eventually crunch on any of the fish food I offer. Any other kind of fruits or such they seemed unimpressed by so far. What are the favourite foods of your hissers? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bugboy3092 6 Posted March 6, 2019 Report Share Posted March 6, 2019 Orange slices seem to be the generally accepted favorite food of many roach species, hissers one of them! They also seem to love turtle hatchling food (strangely specific) and will eat cracked bird seed. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghoul 9 Posted March 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2019 Tried some different foods, they seem to like hazelnuts and walnuts but were unimpressed by cashews (slight nibble) and ignored almonds. Bananas seem to be a big love. A bit of fresh cauliflower got devoured quite quickly as well. They don't take kibble at all, so praise high protein fish food :d Edit: Orange love confirmed. Cat food denied, haha. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Axolotl 95 Posted September 6, 2019 Report Share Posted September 6, 2019 In the summer if you have access to fresh, pesticide/herbicide free sugar maple, they'll throw you a party. Mine can't seem to get enough. They also really like apple, grapes and beetle jelly. For protein, I supplement with alfalfa meal, fish flakes and walnuts. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
whowadat 14 Posted July 23, 2020 Report Share Posted July 23, 2020 Bananas and my homemade roach chow..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karen 1 Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 On 3/5/2019 at 9:13 PM, Ghoul said: Mine only seem to like fish food and apple so far, but I want to give them some variety (besides different fish foods lol). They seem to love gammarus and the flakes the most, but eventually crunch on any of the fish food I offer. Any other kind of fruits or such they seemed unimpressed by so far. What are the favourite foods of your hissers? Hi my Madagascar hissers love fruity roach chow available from bugznbits.co.uk and insect fuel from a company called Arcadia and there website is www.arcadia.com and you can feed this from crickets to mealworms I think they like it so much cuz it’s got carrot powder in it spinach etc it’s all ground up so it’s ok for tiny nymphs which is great they also love coriander leaves and stem they love dandelion leaves I put some of these in the tank and they’ve gone in seconds but I do grow my own I get the seeds from eBay from Karen Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RenOfTheRoaches 10 Posted April 15 Report Share Posted April 15 Mine love lots of foods but their faves are fish food, repashy bug burger, and squash. Try out zucchini, yellow or butternut squashes. Roaches in general seem to like them. I would keep in mind something I've noticed; hissers don't seem to eat a ton or get like, nuts about most things. They seem to eat a fair amount then stop for a day. Mine get excited about fish pellets but not much else. Not that they don't like the foods, I just don't think they're as crazy overall about eating as say dubia. My dubia go nuts for anything lol....except leafy greens, they seem to hate those haha. So it may be your hissers are just behaving with a normal excitement level. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RenOfTheRoaches 10 Posted April 15 Report Share Posted April 15 Oh, and my hissers do actually go nuts for banana! Forgot that one Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbobtom 9 Posted April 23 Report Share Posted April 23 Bee pollen, all the roaches seem to like it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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