Can ghost mantis eat dubai roaches?
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Vlodek
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No. Adult Dubia roaches are way to big for them. You can try smaller nymphs as feeders.
patrickfraser
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Adult dubias are too big (1 1/2-2 inches). They can handle small nymphs, but I usually stick to BBs for the ghosts unless loading a female for mating or an ooth.
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Extrememantid
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Adult roaches would be too large.. They are heavy and bulky. My largest female dubia is just over 2 inches I think
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They are a pest roach, go with dubia babies or young. sorry, just my opinion.....
Ranitomeya
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I use lateralis. They cannot climb smooth surfaces and are not capable of upward flight--they jump and then flutter in a downward direction.
I've tried dubia and I've found that they're really large, the nymphs move too slowly to get much of a feeding response, and that they have a rather thick exoskeleton with only the abdomen being worth eating.
I've tried dubia and I've found that they're really large, the nymphs move too slowly to get much of a feeding response, and that they have a rather thick exoskeleton with only the abdomen being worth eating.
lateralis are only a pest species if they escape, which is easily preventable. Even if they do escape, they need fairly warm environments to breed and mature. Make sure you keep them in a very smooth sided, tall container, and monitor feeding. Sometimes you have to be quick and willing to grab em, but I've never had a problem with that. I tend not to use B. dubia for feeders, for the reasons Ranitomeya pointed out. They do work pretty well if your mantis takes food from tongs, however.
