Live Food!!!!!

[Zanejb]

Just thought id start a thread on breeding live food! come on people get some pics started and give us some info on your cricket, roach, mealies and rodent breeding set ups and whatever else you breed for food!

[mitchdiamond]

I don't have pics of my Woodie colony but it is just a plastic bin with egg cartons.

[Zanejb]

ok seeings as this threads not going to well atm ill list what ive got.
crickets in tubs that sit at room temperature (its never under 20C in my house) one tub thats for feeding (all the extra males) one for breeding (all the females and enough males to breed) and the rest are rearing tubs for the pinheads.

i also have an avery full of finches, i dont feed the finches to my snakes as id prefer to give them mice or rats as they breed easier and are more available but i do feed them to the Gippies and to my monitors. i feed finch eggs to my gillens monitor she loves em!

and finally i breed mice (i use to breed rats but they started giving me the >>>> when they kept fighting and not BREEDING!!!!!) i have a few females shared with a single male and he only gets replaced once he dies.

[Zanejb]

ok to reassure people this link has nothing to do with feeding live animals to snakes (i didnt think about the thread title) its just for Herp owners who wish to share what food they breed for there herps. didnt mean to offend anyone!!!

[Chris1]

dont have pics, but i have a tub with about 4,000 roaches, mealies that i didnt mean to breed,..but didnt know what to do with the beeltes, and giant south american mealworms which i got to morph into beetles, they are doing the buisness as far as io can tell,..but havent seen any baby worms yet, i keep them on the snake tank where its nice and warm.

i dont think i could kill a rodent,..so i'm not gonna try them,...

[stipe]

Crikets
-http://www.chameleonnews.com/year2003/jan2003/crickets/crickets.html

Mice/Rats
-http://www.thefunmouse.com/info/breeding.cfm
-http://ko.cwru.edu/services/musfrming.html
-http://www.geocities.com/happyherps/rodent_breeding.html

Woodies
-http://au.geocities.com/litoria_caerulea_2000/feeding_3.html

mealworms
-http://www.herphabitats.com/reptile_information/breeding_mealworms.htm

Other
-http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/nature_conservation/wildlife/caring_for_wildlife/carers_kit/caring_for_wildlife/breeding_live_foods/

[Zanejb]

i dont kill the animals my dad does cos i dont feel comfortable doing it. you got any extra mealies and american mealies? i could go with starting colonie of those and maybe even some roaches. would you ship them to melbourne?

[chloethepython]

im nearly ready to start breeding my own mice,
they are getting to expensive to buy
the pet shop near me sells weaner mice for 4 dollars each
so hopefuly all will go well