How long til i can use my dubia colony

[Skybug]

So I wanted to just update anyone curious. My bin has grown. I've harvested one more time on the 11th of October. My frass level is about the same. I have at least 2 weeks worth of food for both bearded dragons and our 7 leopard geckos in 2 separate containers. The dermestid beetles have caused less removal of molts/deaths. I was up to 7 death a week and too many molts to count during weekly maintenace. Now its pieces every sort. The Alphitobius diaperinus have help with the frass. I haven't actually removed any frass yet as I am trying to build up the Alphitobius diaperinus and dermestid beetles. The production is through the roof now tho. After my last sort I put an orange in and it took three days to get eaten hollow. 2 weeks later and its gone in 24 hrs.

Thats great! Can u take some pictures? I recently removed a TON of earwigs from my bin cause they were producing so much, (i was thinking they were eating my babies) but on the contrary and upon further inspection of my bin and its dirt , i have an explosion of nymphs (thousands! , so obviously they arnt getting eaten) so the relationship between pincher bugs and roaches is perfectly safe,…. i can now confirm….. lol

 

[Mightaswell]

Yeah ill post some pics next time I check on them. I still have at least 2 weeks of food from my last harvest. I've been sorting every three weeks. Except I'm not doing a sort til my feeder roaches are eaten and it's been 4 weeks already. I'll have them on by the end of the night. Also when I do my next sort and clean I was thinking of starting a new thread with pics. It seems the longer I go feeding the reptiles dubias the less they decide to eat so I'm not good at estimating how much everyone eats.

 

[Mightaswell]

I mean 3 weeks since last sort not 4. Wouldn't let me edit.

 

[Mightaswell]

Here's the pics of my colony. I just moved the egg crates from one side to another. The last pic is lots of frass and the Grey is from egg crates. The beetles burrow into them I think to either lay eggs or final molt. I haven't cleaned any frass out since the colony started to build my cleaner crew up. I will be getting rid of a bunch of it on the next sort tho. I'll start a new post on my sort process so it's easy to follow. You'll also notice I stopped using lids as food and water and upgraded to little plastic cups. I used heavy grit sandpaper to sand the inside and outside of both cups. I cup square in the food cup for easy access and I use water crystals in the water dish. I top it up as needed and change when gross looking. The sandpaper allows the roaches to climb in and out so they don't drown or suffocate. Do not cut a square in the water or the crystals will be lost.

 

[Mightaswell]

I figure tomorrow I'm going to sort my colony on twitch. I thought people might be interested. I feel it's the easiest way to show it is with video.
It says meet a reptile. I'll be showcasing angel. He's a leopard gecko. But after introduction I'll begin the sort.

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