Starting a roach colony. Hissers or discoids?

Dimebag_Disciple · Member Joined: Sep 15, 2006 Posts: 13 Location: San Diego

I'm planning on starting up a roach colony to feet my tegu but I wasn't sure what was more nutritous.

Hissers or discoids?
I'm open to other species as long as they get big.
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-Shawn

1.0.1 Argentine Red Tegu
1.1.0 Dumerils Boas
1.1.0 Crested Geckos
1.1.0 Rough Scale Sand Boas
1.1.0 Borrego Rosy Boas
1.1.0 Nigerian Uromastyx
0.0.1 Egyptian Uromastyx

R.I.P Dimebag Darrell 1966-2004

tegulevi · Respected Member Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 489

of those two i would do dicoid, hissers climb glass and have a lot of shell and fat, compared to other species. I am starting with orange heads, they stink but i like em so far. about the same size as a discoid. but more protien, due to thier protien rich diet requirments. dubia are also nice.

Dimebag_Disciple · Member Joined: Sep 15, 2006 Posts: 13 Location: San Diego

OK I'll nix the hissers.
I'm going to look into orange heads and dubias.
Smell is not an issue as I will be keeping them in the garage.

What do you feed your orange heads? Being that they require a higher protein diet.
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-Shawn

1.0.1 Argentine Red Tegu
1.1.0 Dumerils Boas
1.1.0 Crested Geckos
1.1.0 Rough Scale Sand Boas
1.1.0 Borrego Rosy Boas
1.1.0 Nigerian Uromastyx
0.0.1 Egyptian Uromastyx

R.I.P Dimebag Darrell 1966-2004

AmeivaBoy · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject:

tropical fish flakes is a good starter as it has a very high protein content, all my roaches get fishflakes (not just the orange heads) chick starter, and a variety of fruits and veggies