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What to feed dubia roaches. It sounds like an easy question, right? Well, if you found this article, you probably still have some questions left about what and how to feed dubia roaches. Keeping dubia roaches alive is one thing; how to keep them healthy or make them a healthy and nutritional feeder insect is something totally different. In this guide, we take a practical deep dive into what food is best for your roaches and what the best practices there are to feed you dubias. So, without any further delay, let’s dive in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dubia roaches can be fed a mixture of fresh fruits, vegetables, flours & oats, and pre-formulated diets to keep them healthy and high reproductive. Although dubias are scavengers with simple needs, it is best to gut-load them with specific needs to make them nutritional high-quality feeders for other animals. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although this summary takes the highlights of feeding dubia roaches, there is much more to learn to keep the healthiest (feeder) roaches. Find out more in the different sections below, where we discuss the healthy and favourite food of dubias, what food items you should avoid, how to feed your roaches and how you best can gut-load them (but is it necessary in the first place). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Should I Feed Dubia Roaches?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dubia roaches are very opportunistic scavengers. Scavengers with simple, basic needs. They will almost eat anything that they can get their mouth on. But that does not mean you should feed them everything. Because dubia roaches serve as feeder insects, their nutritional composition and value depend on what you feed them. What you feed your dubias directly affects the quality of nutrition your animals get. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although they eat almost anything, the main food source for them is vegetables and fruits. Wild dubia roaches are mainly herbivorous, meaning they eat mainly plant materials and fruits. So it is good practice that the diet exists for a large part of fruits and vegetables. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other food sources you can offer are pelleted food for dogs and cats, oats, cereal grains, chicking feed, and additives such as calcium powder or specialized dubia food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foods that are nutritional for your dubias and used to gutload them<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n