SpellKaster4
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So, as some of you may have seen, I posted a thread on here the other day asking if anyone had any experience with feeding dubias Fluker's orange cube cricket food. It's been a few days and I found something interesting when I looked in my feeder container tonight. So, a little backstory. I had crickets in a cricket keeper originally. I ordered some dubias to replace them for Peter, my LP sling. So, I cleaned out the keeper and made sure all the cricket crap was out of it. I did some reading, talked some of you guys, and decided to use that cricket food for the dubias. I read and heard on here that dog food is a good food source for dubias so I took some of that a put it in the keeper for the roaches. I put some of that cricket food in too because, for one, I have it and figure I should use it and for two because it is also a water source. I thought that would be a great substitute for water crystals. So, I did all that, put a little egg crate in for the roaches to hide in and dumped them all in. Some of the roaches immediately hide in the crate, some jumped right on the dog food, and some jumped right on the cricket food. I've checked in on them from time to time and they've basically stayed like that. Flash forward to tonight. I get the feeder to grab a new roach for Peter and I notice one that looks dead. I think maybe it's faking so I pull it out and poking for a bit to see. Nope, it's really dead. Okay, whatever. Bugs die all the time right? I look around, find a roach that looks the right size and pull it out. Poke it a few times. Wait. Poke it some more. Wait. Try exposing it to water. Wait. Nope, dead. What connects these two dead roaches? They were both on the cricket food. I start digging around and I've pulled out five roaches so far that were very dead. All were on that cricket food. I checked and the roaches on the dog food and in the egg crate are all 100% okay. Now, I realize this could be a lot of things and I'm going to keep an eye on this to see if the pattern continues but as of right now it is looking like Fluker's orange cube cricket food might kill dubia roaches. Like I said, this could be a coincidence. Maybe they just died cause they are bugs and bugs are stupid and die. I dunno. I've put more of the cricket food in to test it and I'm going to watch and see what happens. I'll update this thread with what happens as I see it. If anyone has any additional info related to this I would love to hear it cause this is really interesting to me. Roaches of all breeds are known for being virtually unkillable so if this stuff can do it that would blow my mind. More than likely they just died because they're stupid bugs though. But that isn't as fun.
