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Cleaner beetles over-taking Dubia roaches
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<blockquote data-quote="Salmonsaladsandwich" data-source="post: 288158" data-attributes="member: 8523"><p>Stop feeding them anything that has a lot of protein in it. Especially if you're giving them dog food or cat food. However try to remove as many as possible first, otherwise it's possible that they'll harm molting roaches. Of course if there's that many they might already be doing so.</p><p></p><p>Wild birds would definitely appreciate them.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: when I read your post, I thought that the beetle you were talking about was the buffalo carpet beetle, which is a kind of dermestid beetle that mainly eats dry dead animal matter. I've never heard of it used for cleaning roach colonies but people use other dermestid species. However now I realize you probably mean the lesser mealworms or buffalo worm, which eats basically anything... So there's not much you can do. Just bear in mind that moving the roaches will be stressful and you might not see many babies for a while.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Salmonsaladsandwich, post: 288158, member: 8523"] Stop feeding them anything that has a lot of protein in it. Especially if you're giving them dog food or cat food. However try to remove as many as possible first, otherwise it's possible that they'll harm molting roaches. Of course if there's that many they might already be doing so. Wild birds would definitely appreciate them. EDIT: when I read your post, I thought that the beetle you were talking about was the buffalo carpet beetle, which is a kind of dermestid beetle that mainly eats dry dead animal matter. I've never heard of it used for cleaning roach colonies but people use other dermestid species. However now I realize you probably mean the lesser mealworms or buffalo worm, which eats basically anything... So there's not much you can do. Just bear in mind that moving the roaches will be stressful and you might not see many babies for a while. [/QUOTE]
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