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aidan
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would like them up and running before ten months
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johne.ev
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| From what iv'e read lobster roaches breed quicker & mature faster. dont be in too much of a hurry. give them time to get established. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| lobsters will eat just about anything that they are offered, I found the Dubia to be a bit picky at first, but now they feed happily on Iams dry dog food, apples, oranges,pears, carrots,parsnip, and pinky mice. |
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aidan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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i have 100 roaches how long will they take to establish so i can feed out of them every day
and how long will it take with 400 roach
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GJ
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| 6-8 months at least for 100 lobsters, they are prolific breeders but still take 3-4 months to reach adult size. If you want to start feeding from the colony right way and use them as a staple diet I would start with no less then a 1000. |
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aidan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:07 am Post subject: |
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so basically there's no point buying anymore unless i by like 900 more i think id rather wait
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negri
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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how many will you need to feed to your animals a week ?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Rickeezee wrote: |
Adult females will give birth to approx 40 roaches per month.
From baby to adult approx 3 months
Egg carton is fine and is what I use.
Yes I wonder who you got them from 
Lobster roaches mature at about 3-4 months old. Females carry young for approximately one month and give live birth to 30-40 babies every month or so. The young are very small, about 3/16 of an inch but grow quickly. |
maths isnt my strong point but you can try to work out how many you need and how long it will take to start enough to keep you going .
once you think you have enough you could use the roaches for a week . then go back to what you were using for a week .
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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protein protein protein.
in nature roaches will eat anything and everything.
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aidan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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well to feed 4 bearded dragons so quite a bit i go through 1000 small/med crickets a week to don't no how to scale that in lobster roaches
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