Reptile Club! <3

[Chickeria]

You're welcome! I hope to see more of those tortoise brothers

How big do they get?

Thank you!
Mine are actually all about 800g = about 1,8 pounds and their shells are kind of a bit smaller than a breakfast plate. Those tortoises grow their whole lives, but how older they get so lesser is the growth visually noticeable. Males are smaller than females and how big they get depends also on the breeding lines/where their wild ancestors came from. Mum of my 5 siblings was huge (and old), biggest Greek tortoise I ever got to know. Dad also was really big compared to my boys. My sister has two boys who are also bigger than all of mine.

 

[Qwerty3159]

Anyone here breed their own feeder insects?
I just started a small dubia roach colony. There’s quite a few new babies already.

 

[CSAchook]

Anyone here breed their own feeder insects?
I just started a small dubia roach colony. There’s quite a few new babies already.
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I have a dubia colony too! They are the main feeder insect for my beardie.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Anyone here breed their own feeder insects?
I just started a small dubia roach colony. There’s quite a few new babies already.
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I do my own mealworms!

 

[Qwerty3159]

Awesome! I just bulk ordered some mealworms so I’m going to try to breed those as well.

I have a dubia colony too! They are the main feeder insect for my beardie.

How’s yours going? Mine is smaller than what I usually see recommended, but my leopard and day gecko don’t eat enough to warrant me wanting to have a big colony lol

 

[Chickeria]

The dubia roaches look really cute in my opinion^^
Years ago my sister did have a mealworm colony. I remember very well the little 'crawling' noises they made in their container when opening the lid. Very busy animals.

 

[CSAchook]

Awesome! I just bulk ordered some mealworms so I’m going to try to breed those as well.

How’s yours going? Mine is smaller than what I usually see recommended, but my leopard and day gecko don’t eat enough to warrant me wanting to have a big colony lol

It is doing great! Ours is fairly small too. Tad (the beardie) eats about 6 adult roaches a week so we don’t need a ton. Buying them from the pet store was super expensive though and they often ran out so I love always having them on hand now. We keep the roach colony in a 20 gallon long tank that formerly housed our leopard gecko before we upgraded him to a bigger tank.

You feed dubias to your Leo? Does he like them? We feed them to Hoshi (our Leo) occasionally but he seems to have trouble catching them The beardie loves them though.

 

[Qwerty3159]

I can tell they aren’t his favorite, but he gets a mix of the dubias, mealworms, superworms, and sometimes waxworms or black soldier fly larvae. He isn’t good at catching the dubia so I tong feed them

 

[CSAchook]

He isn’t good at catching the dubia so I tong feed them

I will have to try that! Thanks! We try to give Hoshi a good variety of bugs too so it would be great if we could get him to eat dubias in addition to his various wormies.

 

[Chickeria]

Hello! Have a good start into the new week everyone ❤