I am adopting 2 more dragons tomorrow and with our current dragon, a leopard gecko and a tree frog the cricket cost is going to get pretty high. I am thinking of starting a cricket colony and a dubia roach colony, I want to do both because it seems like I can get a cricket colony going in around a month if I do it right but the video I saw on dubia roaches stated it could take 7 months to start harvesting from that colony. I like the idea of dubia roaches as they are supposedly more nutritious and don’t smell vs crickets but the long start up time has me concerned. Has anyone here set up one of these colonies? Are there any tips/tricks you have that you haven’t seen in various YouTube videos? Do you recommend a particular video series over another? Thanks in advance.
I have pet dubias, they are a bit slow to get going but if kept warm and fed they reproduce better.
They don’t fly or climb, they have no smell that I can detect, they are not prone to cannibalism, the only sound they make is rustlingif they all get startledand run for cover. And since they prefer fruit you don’t have to water them.
Mine live in a 20 gal aquarium with just cardboard and food.
I’ve kept crickets, and mealworms but dubias are far and away the easiest, just watch out for fruit flys.
That sounds easy enough, thank you.