@sk27

My advice to you is start a colony as soon as possible, by the time the colony has settled into a stable colony

You will have ample tarantula mouths to feed

The rate most people, including myself, buy new spiders is a lot faster than the roaches can reproduce :whistle: :pinch:

Question @ Meteor

Are all your roaches breed able adults?

I've got a few thousand roaches, of which maybe 400 are adult females, of B. dubia and B. lateralis. The colonies sustain about 100 T's and one juvie Beardie. And the colonies are growing.

I'm not feeding my colonies too richly, mostly increasing two days before feeding time for the T's. I'm keeping them hot and dry.

Then I've got a few hundred N. cinerea and lots of P. pallida, which are excellent feeders for my slings.

Of B. dubia I feed mostly adult males to the Beardie and the large spiders, the juvie T's get mostly adult male B. lateralis and the odd N. cinerea, and the small T's are fed mostly from the P. pallida colony.

I do spend money on feeding the roaches, but never on buying crickets ever! I keep my roaches a lot like PeterUK *highfive*

So do you guys recommend the pad heater stay on the whole time even in summer?

They were eating carrots and potatoes until I saw Peter's post...
They are on egg cartons and there is an heater behind the box. I have never given them water but the food lays in water before feeding - it will stay fresh longer.

If I could figure out the difference between lobster sexes it would help a lot. I have been giving the turk youngsters to most spiders and the very small lobsters are for slings /the very big lobsters are only fed to 4 rainspiders, 2 L7 Earth tigers and one shrew.

I have not used any adult turks but I do know the lobster adults are taking a beating with those few animals. Maybe that is where the buggerup is. I would like to sex the lobsters and see many more turks.




Just for show here is a local project with red head roaches and a new species which I hope will be parthenogenetic.


Here's little Peter who sadly eats 10 adults per day.

Mine are off.
I would not recommend it, it will get to hot for your roaches in the heat wave we been having and you going to waste power in summer .