Cockroach Care Sheet
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| Cockroaches make excellent
carnivorous lizard food, especially for larger lizards.
Their bigger size makes bigger meals, allowing your lizard
to get its nutritional requirements from less individual
insects. |
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Food &
Water |
Cockroaches will
eat most food items. The best diet for them would be
healthy foods such as bran, oat or wheat flakes, coupled
with fruits and vegetables like apple, banana, carrots
and sweet potatos. These foods will also efficiently
gut-load you cockroaches for feeding to your lizards.
Like crickets, cockroaches
may drown if a bowl of water is used. Soak cotton wool
or a sponge in water and place on a tray. Change and
clean the sponge daily. |
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Lighting, Temperature
& Humidity |
| You will have to keep the
temperature of your cockroach habitat around 77
degrees F, because most cockroaches originate from sub-tropical
to tropical regions. |
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Housing |
| A large plastic container
with a very tight fitting lid is required. Cockroaches
are excellent climbers, and infestation of your house
is always a possibility. Make sure the lid can be secured,
and the mesh is very fine. Use a peat moss substrate will
a lot of hide boxes and other objects on the floor. |
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Breeding |
| Butterworms
are irradiated before being shipped from Chile. This is
done to kill off any bacteria to prevent the butterworm
from ever pupating into a moth. These butterworms cannot
be cultured at home. |
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