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Are you questioning if you should feed or breed Dubia roaches but doubt their smell? If you exploring feeder insect options or want to breed your own feeder insects, the smell is a valid concern. In this article, we do a deep dive into the smell of Dubia roaches and explore if it is a concern and how to deal with it. Do you have problems with a bad smell of your Dubia roaches colony? This article is also for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dubia roaches almost lack a smell and a bad odour typically comes from the food you provide or the freshness of the furniture or substrate inside the enclosure. Dead roaches, wet environments, mould and sweet fruits can cause bad odour and haven’t anything to do with the roaches themselves. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have problems with any bad odour in your Dubia roaches, we will discuss here what causes it and provide tips to prevent bad smells. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do Dubia roaches smell bad?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It may wonder you but cockroaches are particularly clean animals. They are often associated with dirty environments and with pest infestations in cities and homes. With Dubia roaches there is no difference. Dubia roaches are clean animals and almost don’t have any odour by themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the sense of odour is subjective and some don’t like it anyway, but keeping feeder Dubias in your home \u2014 or even breeding your own Dubia roaches for that matter \u2014 doesn’t mean it will stink in your room or house. I worked with Dubia roaches for many years to feed a large collection of animals and never had much of a problem with bad odours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, why is it that you find posts on forums about bad smells? Maybe you have smell problems with Dubia roaches yourself. When there is a bad smell it often indicates some underlying problem. Let’s dive deeper into what can cause nasty odours within your Dubia roaches colony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keeping feeder Dubia roaches is easy and affordable, and quite fun too. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What can cause bad smell in a Dubia roaches colony?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now Dubia roaches colonies can smell bad. Very bad. But this is caused not by the roaches themselves but by the conditions they are living in. As mentioned earlier Dubia roaches \u2014 like any cockroach \u2014 are clean animals and almost don’t have an odour themselves. But what can cause that nasty smell then? Here we mention the most common smell problems in Dubia roaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food choice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Food is the number one cause of bad smells. And not particularly because of what kind of food they eat (although it is important to make a proper choice about what to feed Dubia roaches<\/a>), but it is about what the smell of food itself is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fruits are good food sources for your Dubia roaches. But you properly have experienced the smell of fruit that has laid in the sun for too long and starts rotting. It causes a sweet but penetrating smell that isn’t particularly nice. If you have (uneaten) fruits laying in the enclosure for too long it starts to smell bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other feeds that are provided quite often are cat or dog pellets. Now, your cat and dog eat them rather quickly and the odour doesn’t have the chance to spread. However, in a warm enclosure like one for Dubia roaches where it lays for a day or two or three, it will start to smell and is not a nice odour I can tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foods you provide oftentimes provide a bad smell, especially when it is in the enclosure longer than 24 hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recommended read:<\/strong> What to feed your Dubia roaches: A practical food & feeding guide<\/a><\/div>