bigi
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crickey, ive only seen them albino's in books, your lucky they are far more nutritional
Breeding woodies
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ur joking right, im pretty sure they all have wings once theyre adults,....
GeckoJosh
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Thats how I thought they were sexed, If that is not correct please fill me in on how to sex them correctly
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herptrader
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You only need to use the thinnest layer to work. 100% coverage is important but, the thinner the layer in my experience, the better.
herptrader
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At this stage I think he is just taking a break to build up the numbers.
herptrader
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Have a look at the care sheet on the Herp Shop web site... pretty much explains all you need to know. The adults have the wings and are the only ones that will breed. I think sexing them comes down to the pairs of spines at the back, two pairs for one sex and one pair for the other but I cannot remember which is what!
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Quick question, and may sound liek a stupid one.
Which woodies should i try and keep in there to "breed"?
The grey ones with wings? or the black/brown large ones?
Which are the female and male? lol
I dont think i bought enough to start a collony so might run down shop and buy couple more tubs.
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here's my five cents
Hi M8, did u get your woodies sorted. They are way easier than crickets, alot less effort. The cricket problem is water and drowning. I bought a big batch of woodies from from the herp shop and let them go wild. i have inland beardies and they love them, but i must say they liked the crickets more, in summer i breed both. For your woodies i just got a plastic tub and cut out part of the lid and hot glued flyscreen onto it. you have to have good air flow for these guys as their substrate gets wet quickly and you don't want that. I went to my local bakery and asked then to save me some egg cartons, they are flat and hold about 48 eggs. Don't lay them horizontally. they must be vertical so their waste can fall though easier to clean and i tie the together with twine. for food they do well on carrots, apples and oranges. the heat thing is right, the warmer the better, they will breed alot, but like i said you need to start with a lot. from memory i bought about $50 worth of the largest and $40 of the babies and i didn't feed many bid ones . By the time the big ones were gone the babies had grown and started to breed. i literally have thousands. like 7000. buy the fluon, you wont need much one jar would last 100 years easily. Im in brisbane happy to give you some if you would like. cheers
Hi M8, did u get your woodies sorted. They are way easier than crickets, alot less effort. The cricket problem is water and drowning. I bought a big batch of woodies from from the herp shop and let them go wild. i have inland beardies and they love them, but i must say they liked the crickets more, in summer i breed both. For your woodies i just got a plastic tub and cut out part of the lid and hot glued flyscreen onto it. you have to have good air flow for these guys as their substrate gets wet quickly and you don't want that. I went to my local bakery and asked then to save me some egg cartons, they are flat and hold about 48 eggs. Don't lay them horizontally. they must be vertical so their waste can fall though easier to clean and i tie the together with twine. for food they do well on carrots, apples and oranges. the heat thing is right, the warmer the better, they will breed alot, but like i said you need to start with a lot. from memory i bought about $50 worth of the largest and $40 of the babies and i didn't feed many bid ones . By the time the big ones were gone the babies had grown and started to breed. i literally have thousands. like 7000. buy the fluon, you wont need much one jar would last 100 years easily. Im in brisbane happy to give you some if you would like. cheers
PhilK
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Both males and females have wings when adults - can't tell the difference. The huge ones without wings are simply preadults. You cannot sex younger ones at all - the wider ones have empty bellies and the longer thinner ones are full.
Take some long thing young ones and put them in a container with no food for a week or two and they soon become flat wide ones.
Take some long thing young ones and put them in a container with no food for a week or two and they soon become flat wide ones.
Asharee133
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the "albino" are just roaches with no carapace, the carapace starts out white, then hardens, ths becomes brown! 
i have a heap of wood shavings on the bottom of their box, is that okay we only need to feed 4 gex every 2 days so im hoping they are breeding
i have a heap of wood shavings on the bottom of their box, is that okay we only need to feed 4 gex every 2 days so im hoping they are breeding
GeckoJosh
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yeah thanks, I was readin up about them the other day and found that out, I guess I was ill informed
I just dont think mine are breeding! lol
How long does it normaly take? I try and see some small woodies or the "live young" but nothing.. all the egg cartons just have small bits of poop everywhere lol.
feeding them, bits of bok choy, carrot and bits of apple.. seem to be eating that with no probs, clean it out every 2 days (the food that is)
Any thoughts?
Seem to be loosing numbers rather then gaining lol
How long does it normaly take? I try and see some small woodies or the "live young" but nothing.. all the egg cartons just have small bits of poop everywhere lol.
feeding them, bits of bok choy, carrot and bits of apple.. seem to be eating that with no probs, clean it out every 2 days (the food that is)
Any thoughts?
Seem to be loosing numbers rather then gaining lol
GeckoJosh
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Be patient, make sure they are warm, also give them some sort of dry food like cat biscuits or rodent pellets
GeckoJosh
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Best thing to do is set up more than one colony so you can alternate your harvests, otherwise its very easy to over cull if you use alot of them
PhilK
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The albinos are simply freshly moulted ones, they'll chang to grey/brown don't worry!
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