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Roaches?

While they may not be able to choke down the full grown monsters they can eat the nymphs, the nice thing about raising your own roaches is you have a variety of sizes to use. Hissers on average are born at 1/4 inch and take roughly 6 months to reach full size/maturity.
 
Although there are a lot of people feeding hissers to leos I would be careful as they have a hard exoskeleton. If you chose to feed them you’ll have to feed the nymphs as the adults are too large like Aaron said. You might be better off going with one of the non climbing species such as orange heads, discoid, orange spot, death head, or six spot. Good luck!
 
Hissers also have the tendency to carry mites. They don't do any damage to the roaches, except for maybe overwhelming some of the nymphs. If you were to get a colony running, it would be more maintenance to make sure the mite population doesn't get out of control.
 
I agree with Cody, I wouldn't even bother with hissers for leopard geckos. Once they get past about a third grown they're useless as feeders and even then they still have the extra thick exoskeleton.
In my opinion the hissers are really only suitable feeders for the bigger monitors or similar lizards.
The non climbing species, or lobsters are much better for smaller lizards. Lobsters would be ideal as far as size, but the fact they climb is a drawback for many.
 
Can the leos really handle the false deaths heads (discoids(sp) nymphs? I did not think they were the same until i went to Clay's website.
I have a colony i have had for years from when i bred panther chameleons, but always thought the shell would be way too tough for a leo.

How many of you are using these and at what size leo? I have thousands just sitting here reproducing (the best eco-freindly garbage disposal system ever).
howard

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Leos can handle discoid roach nymphs w/out a problem. Discoids actually don’t have that hard of an exoskeleton as hissers do. I have yet to feed any of my discoids (letting the colony multiply) but I do feed quite a few orange heads and they are very similar to discoids. I give roaches to all stages of leo life and they have no problems.
 
You can feed full grown lobsters. For all the non-climbing species mentioned, only nymphs.
 
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