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Posted 4/12/2009 11:11:32 AM


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I have been thinking of starting my own small colony of raoches. What Kind Would be best?

Save a tree, eat a beaver!

I have: 1-House Gecko (Salad)

2-Green anoles (Green, Sail)

1-Brown Anole (Spike)

3-Leopard Geckos (Orlo, Naginie, Abrams)

1-unknown toad (Molette)

1-Yellow Bellied Slider (Ted)

1-African Side Necked Turtle (Ed)

2- Oriental Fire-Bellied Toads (Pink, Floyd)

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Posted 4/12/2009 2:20:53 PM


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I heard Dubia's were good.

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Posted 4/14/2009 10:26:53 AM


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from looking at your list of herps in your sig as long as you don't mind climbing roaches i suggest lobster roaches they are a smaller species of roach that i think would fit your needs a bit better then there is latralis which is around the size of a adult cricket when fully grown but they are fast but cannot climb but the males i think can fly

i keep discoids hissers and lobsters rigt now and all 3 are extremly easy to keep and breed feed em water em and wait lol

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Posted 6/28/2009 5:08:49 AM


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never start a german roach colony! I suggest madagascar hissing cockroachs.

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Posted 8/15/2009 11:17:32 PM


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if the roaches escape and cause an infestation just put some duct tape down the cockroaches go to eat the glue and get stuck then dispose

(roaches in my garage when i lived cali)

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Posted 8/21/2009 4:58:04 AM
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Dubias they wont put too much of a whole in your pocket. They are as far as im concered the best roach you can get. I have worked with several species nothing beats them. 
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Posted 9/4/2009 12:15:05 AM
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Some of my tarantulas wont Jump a roach unless it moves so I switched from dubias to discoids to get a better feeding response. Dubias are easier to find though so I'd give them a try.
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