Holy crap...these roaches won't stop breeding!

I've been breeding lobsters for well over 6 months now. Trust me, they get to be too many--even with reduced temps, reduced moisture, and reduced food. I must have at least 10,000 of them.

are definitely hard to feed out for me. I would like to get into the orange spotted since they can't climb and are a slower species. My chams just don't go through enough. But my Oustalets has still to grow. Once he's huge then I think things will pick up.

Some of my large enclures aren't escape proof enough for the roaches plus they hide better then crickets.

I use vaseline. It lasts me about 3 weeks.

. . . I used that clear packing tape (smooth and shiny) around the top of my container - and the crickets couldn't get a grip on that. Never had one get ouf of the container.

Are roaches better climbers than crix?

Cooler temps really don’t help. I’ve had mine down to about 60 degrees before and it doesn’t stop them, slow down but not stop. In the winter my roach room is about 75-80 degrees and in the summer it’s close to 100. That’s when they produce like crazy. The hotter it is the faster the production.

Are roaches better climbers than crix?

Monte, lobster roaches will crawl up vertical pieces of glass, plastic, rubber, basically anything with a problem. The only thing that stops them is something like Vaseline or greace.

. . . thanks for the info. Little buggers!!!


. . . when is your production going to ramp up? I was thinking about buying some from you to try with my cresteds...

Monte, I feed my cresteds lobsters. I put hem in a little cup with vasaline around the top. And I see them hanging over it eating. BUT!! they do get out anyway, and I have a colony living & breeding under the potted plants and they hunt these as well. When I water they come out from under the plant saucers like crazy. They do breed like crazy!

. . . no roaches for me.

I'll stick to CGD.

I don't need no dang roach climbing into my sleep-induced slack jaw at night.

Pttuuuiiii!!!!

Haha.. Monte, there are quite a good variety of non-climbing species as well. I've got 4 other colonies in addition to the lobsters.

smaller colonies at the Birmingham show. I don't think anyone else had roaches (except for the hissers). I thought I would be able to keep the numbers down with the number og animals I have to feed and with breeding season & hatchlings just around the corner....I may be overrun with roaches, maybe I can make little roach lolipops and sell them as novelty items?!? LOL

Yeah that’s what I was going to say. If lobsters aren’t your cup of tea there are a variety of non-climbers: Orange head, orange spot, discoid, six spot, and death head are the most common ones. They can be feed just like cricket.