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Struggling to keep humidity in the 70s and 80s in my new tank I'm using a mixture of spider life and coco husk for my colbalt blue the substrate is damp and I spray it every day and yet the hydrometer is saying 60 any help ?
Roaches are illegal in Florida, so I use crickets for the most part.Okay cheers and know any good food to fatten her up her abdomen is a bit small I've got her on large crickets at the moment I hear dubai roaches are good but I don't know where to get any ?
Not sure if you were asking me. I don't use them since they're illegal here. The only roaches I ever used were discoids and I hated them.I'm in the uk I don't believe they're illegal here are they better than crickets ?
Okay cheers and know any good food to fatten her up her abdomen is a bit small I've got her on large crickets at the moment I hear dubai roaches are good but I don't know where to get any ?
The roaches used as feeders are mostly tropical roaches, not your typical disease-ridden pest roaches. But I get what you're saying.The harsh thing about ****roaches is that unfortunately they are prone to carrying diseases and personally I have an aversion to anything ****roach. I am mildly allergic that isn't medically significant, thankfully or even worth mentioning, to ****roaches so they will not be something I will ever introduce to my spiders. There are some vendors online that sell ****roaches, but they are just too much for me to handle dealing with. While they are a perfectly divine culinary treat even for people, some varieties of roaches, are even sold for human consumption as a delicacy of the canned variety in some ethnic stores complete with nutrition information they are not found often as pet feed. But there is just something about the beastly little ****roaches, they seem so friendly as like they would make cute little pets for those so inclined to keep them. I even think they are adorable, just far away from me they can be adorable. Crickets as jovial seeming as they are, are the easiest to feed only because they are found most often. Meal worms are the easiest for me to deal with and cleanest to keep. Mealworms seem to be the most sustainable and people also eat them, but the diet requirements of the tarantulas point more towards ****roaches as being the ideal meal for them. LLL reptile has the best customer service that I have come across online here in the states as of yet. You pay for customer service too, might as well enjoy it. They have a variety of feeders and you have less risk of contamination with the pet stores, it is a pet store.
Dubia are GREAT feeders. I use them all the time and my larger T's love them. I feed the dubia roach chow, fruits, veggies and fatten them up so the T's have a nice nutritious meal. Highly recommended.I'm in the uk I don't believe they're illegal here are they better than crickets ?
Not sure u really understand the difference between feeder roaches and home pest roaches. These feeder roaches are clean, free of disease, and MUCH cleaner than nasty crickets. No noise, no smell and better nutritionally by FAR. I understand if ur scared of them but inform urself and u may change ur mind. I've read around that 1 dubia has the nutritional value of many, many crickets.The harsh thing about ****roaches is that unfortunately they are prone to carrying diseases and personally I have an aversion to anything ****roach. I am mildly allergic that isn't medically significant, thankfully or even worth mentioning, to ****roaches so they will not be something I will ever introduce to my spiders. There are some vendors online that sell ****roaches, but they are just too much for me to handle dealing with. While they are a perfectly divine culinary treat even for people, some varieties of roaches, are even sold for human consumption as a delicacy of the canned variety in some ethnic stores complete with nutrition information they are not found often as pet feed. But there is just something about the beastly little ****roaches, they seem so friendly as like they would make cute little pets for those so inclined to keep them. I even think they are adorable, just far away from me they can be adorable. Crickets as jovial seeming as they are, are the easiest to feed only because they are found most often. Meal worms are the easiest for me to deal with and cleanest to keep. Mealworms seem to be the most sustainable and people also eat them, but the diet requirements of the tarantulas point more towards ****roaches as being the ideal meal for them. LLL reptile has the best customer service that I have come across online here in the states as of yet. You pay for customer service too, might as well enjoy it. They have a variety of feeders and you have less risk of contamination with the pet stores, it is a pet store.
exactly. the smallest order i could get of Dubai was 25, so if the T's decide to eat them after molting I'll have 6 weeks of food. I got 50 of the pinheads, good thing i was thinking ahead on these since my vagans loves them and ate 2 at a time before he started premolt. I'll figure i have about 6 weeks supply of those also for the 3 slings at 1/4"@OP, roaches, raised in your own colony, are the best feeders around, in my humble opinion. Anyone who says otherwise is a stupid head. Lol, j/k...but yeah, they're the best. In my opinion. Unless you only have a few spiders..then you'll end up peddling roaches