Self cleaning Dubia roach set up

[kholtme]

Elizabeth I give them a large handful of food every other day as well as spray a paper towel with water, or fruit. The food usually sticks around throughout the next day.

 

[kholtme]

My roaches go crazy for water and purina layena sunfresh crumbles chicken food.

 

[Hypancistrus]

Out of curiosity... what kind of bowls do you guys use to feed dubia to your geckos? I am glad I stumbled on this thread. I used to raise dubia and hissers for my bearded dragons and skinks, and then get out of it. With my increase in gecko breeding efforts I decided I needed to get back into roaches, so I ordered some dubia and some hissers. With the beardie and skinks, I just take a cup of roaches and drop in one at a time, but my gecks are much shyer than the others.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Out of curiosity... what kind of bowls do you guys use to feed dubia to your geckos? I am glad I stumbled on this thread. I used to raise dubia and hissers for my bearded dragons and skinks, and then get out of it. With my increase in gecko breeding efforts I decided I needed to get back into roaches, so I ordered some dubia and some hissers. With the beardie and skinks, I just take a cup of roaches and drop in one at a time, but my gecks are much shyer than the others.

For my arboreal geckos like Oedura castelnaui I use 10 ounce bar glasses or Lee's hexagonal "betta containers". I recently found 8 cool bar glasses at the Goodwill with weighted bases.

Here's what I use for other geckos including my leo.

• 8 ounce clear glass round dishes with totally vertical sides: 1" & 5/8" deep x 3" & 3/4" diameter. Source: Anchor Hocking, 800-562-7511, ext 2478. Use a sloped stepping stone/ramp for ease of access to the lip of the feeding dish and to stabilize the dish.
  Click: 1 cup Kitchen Storage Red Lid
  Click: 8 Piece Set Kit. Store
• Ceramic tea cups used by Asian restaurants are nice and deep. They have no handles!
• Jumbo tealight holders: Mainstays Jumbo Tealight Holder: Decor : Walmart.com
• Small ceramic ramekins from a kitchen store make good feeding dishes. They have deeper vertical slippery sides---ideal for containing some feeders!