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<blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 132133" data-attributes="member: 27883"><p>This is true. For 10 years I've been trying to give away my surplus and the local pet shops have had no interest in any of them, even for free. Finally, a few of them have caught on to the whole dubia thing and I have a couple people that take those from me, but man, I've never had such a hard time giving away something so valuable.</p><p></p><p>The funny thing, funny to me anyway, is that Blatta lateralis occurs here in a feral state. Don't know how they got here, but I've seen them running around my ranch for more than 20 years every night as I go around and shut the tortoise doors. When I started getting into roaches, I decided to catch a few, put them in a bin and make a colony. I caught about 2 dozen "wild" ones to start with. I did that 10 years ago and I've been feeding their offspring to any and all insectivores for a decade now.</p><p></p><p>I did the same thing with Blatta orientalis too. Went back to the neighborhood where I grew up and caught a bunch of wild ones and made a colony out of them. They were a little skunky smelling, and I really didn't need them since I had all the other ones, so I fed them all out after a couple of years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tortoise Tom, post: 132133, member: 27883"] This is true. For 10 years I've been trying to give away my surplus and the local pet shops have had no interest in any of them, even for free. Finally, a few of them have caught on to the whole dubia thing and I have a couple people that take those from me, but man, I've never had such a hard time giving away something so valuable. The funny thing, funny to me anyway, is that Blatta lateralis occurs here in a feral state. Don't know how they got here, but I've seen them running around my ranch for more than 20 years every night as I go around and shut the tortoise doors. When I started getting into roaches, I decided to catch a few, put them in a bin and make a colony. I caught about 2 dozen "wild" ones to start with. I did that 10 years ago and I've been feeding their offspring to any and all insectivores for a decade now. I did the same thing with Blatta orientalis too. Went back to the neighborhood where I grew up and caught a bunch of wild ones and made a colony out of them. They were a little skunky smelling, and I really didn't need them since I had all the other ones, so I fed them all out after a couple of years. [/QUOTE]
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