HOW TO MAKE ROACH CHOW / Cockroach Food / Bug Grub 2020
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- How to make roach Chow in 2020 .often called other things like how to make bug grub, or , how to make cockroach food. This dubia roach food is a great dubia roach gutload and perfectly nutritious for your cockroaches and the bearded dragon your feeding dubia roaches to. Previously in roach Chow or cock roach food we added things like dog food and cat food but these days with modern day science we've found that there is to much protein in cat food and dog food for the dubia roaches and can give your reptile gout. So now we've switched out roach Chow ingredients . We show what we put into roach Chow and how to make the best roach Chow. How out dubia roach colony really benifit from roach Chow,
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Love how the video was presented!
Thanks buddy... What did you ever do with the rat and her babies?
Thank you so much I was paying a lot of money this helps a lots
Hi Exotic lair I’m a big fan of both of you
Love your tarantulas and pissy
I like when he feds pissy
@@NORTHERNEXOTICS hey, i have a question about the video! Is rat food okay instead of rabbit food? Because I already have rat food, so it would make it a bit cheaper for me
Dubia roach on back
"I just saved his life"
*gets fed to Savanah Monitor
😂😂😂
Hya, I checked out all these videos a few months ago when I started getting in roach breeding. They didn't breed stall and where dieing if anything. After really sticking to the tips from this video and after a couple of months I noticed baby's, all from one male because the others had died. Fast forward 6 months and haven't had one die in ages and millions of babies all from that one male that just keeps going 😆 thanks for these vids definitely on point!!
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Glad to see an updated lower protein version. I think adding some dehydrated veg like carrots or yams would be very beneficial.
I was looking into adding dandelion
This mix is the bomb. I'd previously made a mix based on recommendations from the guy I picked my roaches up from, but they were very slow to grow. This recipe has made such a difference! I was unable to source just rabbit nuggets, so I went with a rabbit food mix that's nuggets, freeze dried veggies, some greens etc. I also added some Exoterra multivitamin that our gecko hated.
Hi, from the USA your tip on feeding oranges to get the Dubia breeding really paid off now I have hundreds of Dubia .Thanks so much !I love your channel!!!
In case anyone is wondering I use this for all my roach species though this is not a staple offer fruits and veggies along with this chow it really helps them breed faster
Thanks a nillion
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What if your feeding them to your tarantula? Is dog food and high protein ok?
Whenever I mix up a batch of roach chow I just grab whatever I have in the kitchen. Graham crackers, cereal, cat food, brown sugar oatmeal, whole oats, sunflower seeds, etc.
Great idea about using the tubs to store the chow, I've used mine for few different uses, egg laying tubs for locusts, chameleon egg hatching and incubation, feeder tubs for placing beetle grubs in the vivarium and i also use them to hand feed sometimes just put a few roaches in and hold the tub while my chameleons feed from it is a good way to earn their trust.
Some great uses there
I just bought 50 lb gamebird chow for my lates mental instar that is raising Dubia roaches. Thanks again Ricky 🍩🪳💃🏼🕺🏼🐈⬛🕷🦎👌
I was wondering what to feed my roaches and I also have a rabbit lol now they can share food! :D works out!!
Thank you! Video helped a lot good info!
Thank you...good info. They love corn on the cob too..
The octopus thing looks like the kraken from hotel Transylvania 3.
I love the video! I just started my colony but I also added some of the pellets that my bearded dragons eat and some of the cricket food to the mix. I feed this to both the crickets and the roaches! Talk about good gut loading!
So its 2 years after the video was uploaded and here is what I use feeder tubs for.... catch cups because I own tarantulas and I have actually got about 5 with slings in them and they are thriving. You sir are an unsung hero for saving that roach.
Thank you for making me laugh with the octopus! I needed that!
A very helpful video! Good job and thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the kind words
amazing so simple thanks
instead of using the rabbit food ive found that chicken feed and chick starter works better. those feeds are also grained based witch is what they would usually eat in the wild. using chicken feed can also be a lot cheaper and its more readily available.
The problem with grain based diet is to much potassium in the dubia roaches can transfer to a reptile and hinder the absorption of minerals into the reptile
@@NORTHERNEXOTICS man you are honestly so knowledgeable about roaches and reptiles in general. I hope 1 day to have even a 5th of your knowledge and I would be a happy man.
I use the empty containers for humid hides, quarantine tubs and even as a container for my spring tails.
Great ideas?
Great video, I do a mix very similar to this. Also something I do with my little containers that are left over like you are using. I mix up a big batch, fill the containers up and then I put them into my freezer. This keeps any sort of other critters, like weevil, that I don't want in it. Then when I need a container, I just pull it out of the freezer. Let it defrost and boom Bob's your uncle. I have never had any issues, with it getting wet from defrosting and the ice thing. As long as there is no moisture in the containers prior to freezing them.
Love your videos!!
It's 2 years time! And I'm watching this since I just found it!
Can someone list the ingredients under this comment please?
Right I can’t under star him on that first item cheap and cheerful something
Currently setting up a dubia colony in preparation for an ackie, your videos have been super helpful and fun to watch. Thanks for the content, just subscribed!
Love your videos and they help me so much with my little projects
Fantastic I'm learning so much from you thank you for taking your time make these videos
It's a pleasure. Thank you kindly
Gets me everytime you say "moisture sauce" 🤣🤣 💯💯👌🏻
Thanks so much!
Mate, Your leopard gecko is so pretty!!! MORE VIDS ON HER PLEASEEEE!!!!!
Thank you. They gave off some amazing babies last year
@NORTHERN EXPOSURE i had left over coco coir, so I use my left over live food containers for growing red worms in the moistened and ground up coco coir. To feed to muh Toads.
I grow beardie mix and other salad things in them for my Yoda 😍
2/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 equals 1 and 1/3... lol. Thanks for the info., I just bought my daughter a Leo and so will start a small dubia roach colony soon. But how do I keep the colony from growing so big? :). Also, how hot can they get? I am in Texas and my garage gets up to 120 F (48C) is that too hot?
Yea it’s a bit too hot. 32c (~90f) is a better temperature
Great video, just made some up 1/3 of each ready for the roaches to get delivered.
This looks like a good grub to start with after a small company I used to buy dubia grub off has suddenly stopped and she used something to keep the grub together whats also used in beer and use hot water but that was great except after a bit it would get moldy. So I really wanna try this out and have no worries about food molding since my colony eats fresh veggies first
Great video!
Off to the shops I go
Have fun
A dark container is better for stress levels
And ya can stand up your egg cartons
With a small piece of cardboard between each so they slide right out and don't hang up on each other
Thanx for the chow making tutorial
Rock On
Thank you!
Cheers
Just wanted to say thank you for this video. I've been trailing this chow for about a month and I've noticed a big increase in babies. The adults are also lasting longer and growing bigger. Before they would get to medium stage and then die off. Now I've got a couple of big beasts in there!! Not sure whether to feed them to my Gecko or keep them in there to produce more babies
thank you kindly. id say keep them lol
Hya 1st time comment, first off love all your video far very helpful. Just started a colony and very helpful. Without sounding a prick I want to add you need to remove those concrete blocks from your Savannah monitors enclosure! I did it at one point I know it's tempting for a lovely big free hot slab basically but over time it gets into there skin and eyes (I'm in construction iv had retinal erosion you guy doesn't want that 😆) and my beardie had eye issues years ago cos of it. It may not cause an issue for ages but I pretty much guarantee at some point it will. Hope the best for you and your animals all the same and look forward to binge watching more off your videos!!
That's great advice I'm for sure going to look into . Thank yoy
I'm going to make this for my roaches when I get home from work. Hopefully they will eat it
I reuse my live food tubes for hides for my scorpions and tarantulas! It would work for smaller gekos too. I black them out with black electric tape as it’s a great way to keep heat in as it’s a thermal tape
Sweet
Cheers biddy
I house small bettles in the livefood containers.
Or a small species of tarantula
Nice one mate.
Tescos pulling their hair out because you called them asda 😉😂😂😂 honestly do love your content
I was gonna sub cuz I deal with Dubai roaches all the time but I was already subbed 😂
Interesting. I will have to save this one for making some food for my small growing dubia colony
It for sure helps and saves money
Should I substitute the rabbit food as I've been using puppy food for years, fortunately, I only have a leopard gecko a.t.m.o. and she's never shown interest in the Dubias, go figure lol but I use a mix of puppy food, wheat bix, corn flakes and oats and use as the substrate for mealies and the dry food for feeders, I haven't noticed an issue with her but I do intend to expand upon my animals over time and don't want any possible issues with other species. I also use water crystals as well as various fruit and veg and even without an additional heat source even being in the UK also, I've found they breed well.
Love the channel btw, relatively new, can't believe I didn't find you sooner. Well informed and presented info.
Have a look at the protein content inside the mix. Low protein is best. To much can cause gout
Nice!
Thanks a million
Breading tubs for crickets
Did you mean 1/2 +1/4 + 1/4 ratio? 😁 I had a colony going so I hard for several years I couldn’t keep up with how many I had and with over ten lizards including a Savy and two blackthroats. I started selling them to the local pet shops. But I don’t care what anybody says, they can get out or dropped or whatever. Sometimes dust or sediment gets on the plastic and the babies can climb that. So wipe down when cleaning just a little tip. My wife hated finding them. She’s gone now so I’m starting another colony up. Just seeing what’s been new since my last colony, thanks for the vid.
Ps.. I had a tokay gecko that ran loose in my reptile room, he cleaned up the escapees for the most part... lol a little bit of lizard poo is better to clean up than roaches.
Can i feed this roach chow to my roachs for a bearded dragon safely
What are the ingredients in Amercia?
Did you ever figure it out?🤣 I wish he lived in US because when I go to his amazon link everything isnt avaliable here.. only thing I think we dont have here is the wheat biscuits so trying to figure out what to replace with
@@lindseysreptiles nope lol
@@andrewlay88 saw someone say wheetabix cereal, wheat bran or triscuits in comments. Everything else you can get here in US.
@@lindseysreptiles sweet, will try it out, buying it is expensive lol
@@andrewlay88 me too figured itd be easier and cheaper. Having issues feeding my roaches greens adds too much moisture so annoying lol
Hi, quick question.. I couldn't completely understand one of the ingredients it was porridge oats, rabbit food, and what's the third? Also I'm in the US what can I substitute for it?? Not sure if they sell that last ingredient here... Thanks in advance
I was thinking the same. I'd probably just substitute some whole grain crackers that either are low sodium or sodium free.
Noice
Can you make a video using that with a super green 100% juice and (agar agar and gelatin )and see which is the best and longest lasting? Maybe some unsweetened coconut added, dried fruit bits.
Is it 2/3 cheap rabbit food, 1/3 oats, 1/3 wheat bran?
Then add oranges or carrots?
I'm here in the USA so I can't find weetabix
Does that roach colony feed all of your reptiles that eat them? I currently have a mealworm farm for my juveniles with occasional crickets but I need to expand the diet and I'd really like to do roaches. I have a bearded dragon, leopard gecko and two turtles. Love your channel man, it's not super edited like the highly popular channels who have the sponsors and $$$. More akin to the average reptile keeper. :)
I ues them to sent out when ppl buy buys from me
I use the live food containers to keep fish fry in.
Is it bad to use triscuits with sea salt. I've added it as a wheat substitute and the roaches seem to not even touch it. It's in a mixture of quacker oats and rabbit food
Maybe Wheatabix cereal or shredded wheat cereal? I think the salt on the Triscuits is prob what your roaches are avoiding
Anytime I buy anything in ventilated plastic containers I recycle them. I usually use them to house my gecko if I'm working in his enclosure or to dust the feeders
great uses
I’m in the US, can you explain what the first ingredient was? I couldn’t quite catch what you’re saying in the video and can’t read anything on the bag. It’s porridge oats, rabbit food, and what’s the other ingredient?
My homemade gutload includes:
•5 grain oats
•Flaxseed meal
•Wheat Bran
•dehydrated veg mix
•corn meal
•vitamin blend & calcium
•powdered carrot, broccoli & spinach
but i dont grind it up, can Dubia's eat just regular oats as is?
Thanks for the info pal just bought 100 baby’s a few months ago so far so good how moist is it supposed to be in the crate
will it work for deaths head roachs
Use water crystals for plants you can get a bag for five bucks and it last a while
What is when wheat substance, I can't understand
nicee vid mate! general question, will only rabbit food + normal oats finely grounded into powder work as the main dish? (adding carrots regularly on the side for moisture). also, kind of a noobish question, are the females starting to lay their babies when they becomes shiny(not sure how to actually describe it lol)? or at much earlier phase? thanksss and keep on the great vids, very educational!
A little late here, but maybe it'll help others out. Roaches don't really care about their food. They're forest dwelling animals and feed on fruits, seeds and so on in the wild. A bit of protein, some starch and moisture is all they really need.
Yes, the "shiny" females are adult. Those are the only ones giving (live) birth.
B.dubia dont need oyster shells?
2/3 rabbit food+1/3 granola bar +1/3 oats= 4/3! :) Love your videos though!
I’m going to try this. I ready chickens layer pellets were good but they don’t seem to touch it
Hugo is getting big
Soon be needing a new enclosure
HUGO
Does this one make the dubia breed better than the old mix you showed previously or is it purely to make the dubia a safer diet for reptiles? I don't keep reptiles, only arthropods of various kinds. Would the higher protein in the old mix make them a better food source for my T's, pedes & assassins? Thanks
Can I feed this to my other insects??
Are Wheat Biscuits basically Triscuits?
Yea
I was coming here to find an American version of what he was saying. I knew it was a wheat product 😂 I kept hearing wheat-a-bix
@@hippea295 thats what i kept hearing too! Which is a cereal lol.
Can l feed the chow loaded roaches to the green tree frog?
Thank you for the info. I'm just starting out with breeding my dubia roaches and was looking for the best dry food to feed them. I would love to try this the only thing is I live in the USA and I cannot seem to find the wheat biscuits. So my question to you is, bread the cereal Wheaties be the same as the wheat biscuits?
Weetabix is available on Amazon. Just had it delivered to Arizona in one day
Can also substitute weetabix for wheat pellets, can get 20kg bag really cheap if that helps
I need to know what u put in at last ? We don’t have that thing in Denmark
wheatabix?
@@SuperMejohnson thank you, what is the ingredienses, we don’t have this in Denmark
Can someone please tell me what the measurements of each ingredient were. I do not know if it was metric or imperial measurements. Thank you
To put it simply, just guess lol
What about bran flakes ??
Does it need to be porridge oaks, I got organic old fashioned oats. I also got rabbit food that's high in fiber and proper digestion. With minerals and vitamins. I couldn't find your biscuits I found a cookie that I believe is similar it's called parle-g original gluco cookie. Will this work?
What blender do you use
Do ya think turtle food pellets are good for Dunia roaches ?
In the US Weetabix is a quite expensive. would we germ or cream of wheat work as well?
Can I use every rabbit food, we have rabbit food but only have 6 ingredients inside or can I use this guinea pig food (eurogold guinea pig )
What is the wheatabix
Mini octopus' name is George
Oscar the octopus 😂😂
Wat r the wheat things called?
Wheatabix I think. It's a breakfast cereal
Always eat your weetabix 😊😊😊
Weatabix a day keeps the insects at bay
@@NORTHERNEXOTICS got it in one 🐜🐜🐜
I'm having trouble finding the bars I want. A lot of or most I have found have extra in them. From berries to chocolate
I've bought rabbit pellets, but composition does not mention protein at all. Only fiber, minerals, fat, ash and moisture are indicated. It seems that roaches dont like mix with it as much as mix with dog food. Do you think that these pellets are OK even with no protein?
You always have great videos but I use cat food and oats I started with 100 about 2 years ago and they reproduce so fast I sell them by the pound. I know it high protein but they go to tarantulas. Im thinking about getting a couple lizards so Im wondering if I need to start a second colony on low protein diet or can I just chang the diet for a while prior to feeding
Yes, you have your breeding colony, then change it up and pull your feeders into another tub und just gutload them with a lower protein diet
I understand rabbit food and the oats what is the third thing
Wheat breakfast cereal
@@NORTHERNEXOTICS In the US we have Cream Of Wheat, dry powder cereal. Can that be used?
@@NORTHERNEXOTICS raisin bran ok to use take out raisin or ok to leave in ?
what about Green lights
I can’t find anything in the states called wheat biscuits. Can I use something like uncoated shredded wheat cereal? Thank you
Thank you for you for a very informative video. 2 thirds rabbit food, 1 third wheetbix, 1 third porridge oats ? That is 4 thirds ... Am I missing something here? :-)
I can’t get rabbit food but do you think classic plain oats and wheat bran would be a good stable?
Yes
NORTHERN EXOTICS thank you
Hai.
1. Rabbit pellet
2. Oat
3. What?
Can crickets eat this? I'm trying to start a colony.