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Dubia Roach Care Sheet
More than likely, you've gotten more roaches than your pet can eat in one sitting, and need to keep them alive til the next feeding. We have some helpful tips and details to help you! If any of your questions aren't answered here, please feel free to contact us, and we will do our best to help you.
Storage, Heat & Humidity
These roaches can survive at room temperature, and do best with about 60% humidity. Unless you plan to keep them in high heat, you shouldn't have any issues keeping them alive and healthy.
It's best to keep them in a ten gallon tank, or a 40 qt plastic tub. Egg crate flats or paper towel/toilet paper cardboard rolls give them a place to hide and stay warm.
There is no need to use any kind of substrate or bedding at the bottom of the enclosure. Adding substrate will only make it more difficult to keep the enclosure clean.
Food & Water
Good nutrition and hydration result in healthy roaches, providing good nutrition to your pet.
Roaches can eat a variety of dry fruit, grain or plant-based food including: commercially available Roach Chow, powdered grains, commercially available insect gutload, a variety of fruits and vegetables, especially orange ones which contain carotenoids. Low moisture vegetable parings such as potato or other parings, apple cores or broccoli stalks can also be added.
Be sure to remove fruit and vegetables before they get moldy; mold is lethal to roach colonies.
Avoid high protein foods such as dog or cat food and meat, since Dubia roaches convert excess protein into uric acid which can harm the reptiles that eat them.
The most effective way to provide water is by using water crystals, a polymer based material that holds water. This method will minimize the chance of the roaches drowning. Be sure to put the food and the water in shallow bowls that the Dubia roaches can climb in and out of and to keep the food and water bowls separate so the food doesn't get wet and moldy.
Cleaning
Roaches produce dry poo called "frass" as well as shed exo-skeletons (if you keep them long enough). Their enclosures will need to be cleaned every 1-2 weeks to keep all this cleaned up. Having a fresh enclosure for new orders of roaches will ensure they all stay healthy and clean.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!