Should you be preparing on starting a colony of Blaptica dubia there are lots of items you will need to understand. First off you need to become able to identify your dubia. Blaptica dubia are also known as the Guyana orange spotted roach, due to their dark brown colour and light orange spots. Adult dubia typically reach 1 ½ to two inches in length and live up to 12 months. Male dubia have wings, and the female dubia have wing stubs but neither can fly. Dubia are also extremely slow movers, so if one happens to escape you need to have no dilemma catching them. Dubia also usually do not burrow and can not climb smooth surfaces. Now that you have learned a bit about identifying dubia you’ll need to know how to care for the colony.

Blaptica dubia’s diets consist of fresh fruit and vegetables supplemented with dry dog meals, grain cereal, baby cereal and fish flakes. If this seems prefer to significantly perform or pricey you can find roach diet on the internet. Just before feeding your dubia it’s important for you to look more than the food and eliminate anything that may possibly be molded. Molded meals will hurt your colony. Your dubia may also need water. Utilizing water crystals allows your dubia to have the water they require but is also not as messy as liquid water. Make sure you place the water crystals inside a tiny dish so that your dubia nevertheless possess a spot to move about.

Now that you understand how to feed your dubia lets talk about their atmosphere. Considering that dubia are a non climbing species any smooth sided container will make a fantastic home. Ensure that your container has lots of egg crates to ensure that they’re able to breed and maintain your colony going. Make certain that your dubia possess a higher then typical humidity (above 40%) in their container, you can accomplish this by utilizing a heat mat or perhaps a heat lamp. To get the correct humidity you may also must mist the container with water, but be sure that your container by no means gets mold in it or your colony will die. Temperature wise you ought to have your container between 80 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Maintaining your dubia’s environment at these specifications will make certain that you just may have a large and veiled chameleon wholesome colony.

Blaptica dubia makes superb feeder roaches for a lot of motives. First off roaches are 36% protein as opposed to crickets that are only 18.5% protein. Dubia have a softer outer shell which make them simpler to digest for the pets. Also roaches have little to no odor and do not make any noise producing it significantly simpler to raise a colony inside your property. It is important to make use of any additional male dubia you’ve got inside your colony to feed your pets. You should have 1 male to 3 females within your colony. Because dubia have much more protein then crickets your pet will consume less permitting you to save income and to have a healthier satisfied pet.