"If they can withstand a nuclear war they can withstand a bit of banging around" LOL i love it

They sound like rain running around in that box XD

Their actually quite cute in a weird kinda creepy way 😂

Love how casual Dave is

Simple and straightforward, nice video!

another master class from the PROFF. i need to get a red runner set up.

Hey Dave, Try this. Make some paper or cardboard cones to put in the roach box to collect them. Vary the size of the cone for the amount of roaches you want to catch. A feeding cone might be 4" tall. One to assist with the cleaning could be foot tall and hundreds of roaches could climb up inside the cone ready for transport to their new home. Cut out small entries at the bottom of the cone. You could put toothpick legs on the big cones so the beetles can't climb up with the roaches. Natural sorting because beetles will run to the edge of the tub. Roaches run to the cone to hide. Watching the way they run up your hand, running up the dark inside of a cone would be a natural catching method, no need to hassle sifting out roaches and rubbish. Great for squeamish folks that really don't like to touch the roaches or get them on their hands. The roaches will separate themselves. Just lift them out slowly and shake over the target, for feeding or return to a clean tub.. I saw this at a professional cricket farm. They sized the cones to hold how many they wanted to catch per order. Example: One size cone holds 100 roaches... with your separated roaches in the tub, put in 5 cones, each fill up with 100 roaches,..voila! Make the Catch Cones any size you need to for the activity you are involved in. Catching for feeding, counting, or just moving from one tub to another. When done, cones stack for storage.

I love the sound of all the scampering

I have no reptiles or spiders, I have no plans to have a red runner or roach colony- but here I am watching both videos 😆 Your videos are so interesting!

I think the biggest pro of these red runner roaches is that you don’t have to crush their heads to offer enough stimulation and to keep them from hiding (like with dubia’s) I personally don’t have a problem with crushing roach heads but I seem to be in the minority I’ve been feeding my roaches pumpkin, they are very cheap and available (especially in this season), have a long shelf life in the fridge, they love them, are the most healthy vegetable (actually fruit) available and I roast and eat the seeds myself

That’s pretty much what I do with my Dubia’s. Still tying to convince my husband to let me breed red runners. Maybe one day 😁 Thanks for sharing.

Sounds like a movie theatre before the movie starts. Like people munching popcorn.

I decided to watch this because I was curious, I didn’t expect so many roach life hacks

I would never ever put my hand in a box full of roaches XD lovely video as always!

As for water source, I made my roaches a water drinking station made from a deli container and it works pretty well. You need a plastic container with lid, a synthetic wick (i use synthetic flannel strips) and a plastic mesh. First, make a hole on the lid slightly smaller of the wick width. Pull the wick through just long enough so it can sit on top of the lid. They'll drink from it. If the wick is too long that it can dangle to the side and below the water line, the water could get syphoned out of the container. Lastly, glue a strip of mesh to the lid so they can climb up the container or you can lean anything that the roaches can climb onto it. I change the wick every time i top up the water or if it's dirty enough.. And since there's no open holes, the water loss from evaporation is very minimal and it keeps the water clean. I hope that's understandable. English is not my first language. Cheers.

Wonderful video. I'm about to start a route colony and I feel like I've learnt all that I need to learn from watching this video.

Brilliant informative video dave 🙌

Love your video,s I have a colony of red runners..they are amazing feeders..fast little beggars but always a hit with everyone..

Nice technique you have for your Red runners. I had to eradicate my colony as well because of the crates always gets damp. Maybe next time ill try throwing in oatmeal or bran. Very detailed and informative video. Looking forward for your dubia colony vid. New subscriber here.

Those beetles! I had to give up with my last Lateralis colony and start it again. I had so many beetles that the roaches could not even rest for a few minutes. They do eat everything indeed, I bet they ate most of the ootecas during this time. The colony was with a soil substrate and wooden repairs, was able to produce big amount of them, until these beetles took over. Going now back to a much easier to maintain setup, like yours. Fast, clean and easy. I'll play with a fancy setup for the Gromphadorhina, never again for Lateralis ahahahah Nice video, going to check your others and I guess subscribe!

Great vid bud put ones I got off you in same set up 😁

Great video! I started my own little colony too, 3-4 months ago. Ty for the tips! God bless you!

Looking at this video it's starting to make me want to keep roaches as pets lol. They look so easy to take care of yet they thrive at these very simple conditions. It's wonderful! Not sure what I'd do once the population gets out of control that's the scariest part. A reason to have something that "eats" a few every now and then.

Very fascinating and creepy video although I find any insects crawling on a person's skin creepy. I'm not allowed red runners as I had some last year but some managed to escape so my parents have said they are never allowed in this house ever again lol. I prefer dubia roaches myself as they don't look at creepy and are just as easy to keep and way easier to catch haha. I use that water gel stuff for my dubias as it lasts a few days and means my terrible memory doesn't cause any issue, I tried feeding greens but I kept forgetting to put the greens into the tubs so decided to use the water gel things as I can put them in and they last 2-4 days depending on how much I put in and it seems to just evaporate which is pretty awesome. I only have 1 tarantula though so my dubia colony is tiny compared to that colony of red runners which is probably why I can get away with using the water gel lol, I only have about 10 dubia's left now and I had them for about 3 months.

Love all of Dave's colony videos, can't wait to have one instead of going to my exotic pet store so much to buy more.

Thank you so much!!! I have wanted to start a colony so bad but didn't know the steps to take. You are amazing Sir!!!

Hhmm, never considered the Beatles would eat the eggs. Well out with them then, thanks for the video helped alot.

This is the main reason I haven’t taken the big step to get a T. I have a pathological horror of roaches and crickets for that matter.

Thank you for this video!!! I just bought a red runner colony breeding kit, very helpful!

Really good and detailed video.

I just started a dubia roach colony watching your videos... but now im addicted and want more feeder insects just to breed out.

Checking in to say hello. Thanks again Ricky 💃🕺🏼🎶🐈‍⬛🎸

Brilliant again more practical tips.

Those look to actually buffalo worms, also known as lesser mealworms, dermested beetles are fuzzy if I remember correctly

Wow, you shake the bucket and I shake with my hand, lol omg

I can smell this video...

Thank you Dave

I like to put a flat piece of cardboard in between each egg flat

I usually do apples and oranges in there for liquid it seems to work good for food as well and definitely for the water part thank you so much for the videos I've learned so much from yall and just found your channel like a week ago so I'm excited about all the other new things I will be learning from yall

Good Video Mate!

Love getting the notification of you uploading a new video! Also I heard I can purchase live food from you! How do I go about doing this?

Got goosebumps 😅

How do the beatles appear in the enclosure?

Hmmm.... Now i think red runner are not very creepy

I don't like using dry foods personally as they also will require supplemental water, so instead I just use a pile of veggie scraps for all my roaches

I started a dubia enclosure and realized recently that I'm too scared to get them out to feed my dragon 🤣🤣🤣

I wish we could keep roaches as feeders!

👌👍

I use oats for my colony

I bought about 150 red runners to start a colony, they are mating and producing eggs but the eggs dont hatch 😒 I ended up buying nymph dubia roaches but they have kinda won my heart and I dont want to use them as feeders 🤣🤣 tarantula owner problems 😂😂 but in all seriousness if people ask me for advice about T's I always send them to your yt channel as the advice you give is always top notch.

Top

Morning another good video do you sell em, how long does it take to get them producing ,

I've been keeping dubias and thanks to one of you other videos they will be doing better , i can now handle them and not be freaked out but these red runners make me run away they are just so fast and creepy 😱

Your videos are great and helpful. I’ve had my colony for around 2 months now, plenty of females carrying egg cases but was concerned I haven’t seen any babies yet? Do the adult roaches feed on the babies by any chance as I can’t understand why I’m not seeing babies? What was the dry feed you use in this video please ? I’ve been using baby chicken feed, mixed with rabbit pellets. Would that work? Do the roaches also feed on the wheat substrate? Thanks again for the very helpful videos

After you feed the mix salad and ckicken pelts. How often do you feed again? What's the ideal feeding sequence that you have experienced with?

very helpful hoping to start a business soon by breeding live food also from the uk thank you

Hi Dave love all your videos, we have a beardy and I have 2 juvenile t's and a sling would it be worth me breeding them?

Hey Dave, hope you are doing good! Watched the whole video and read all the comments. A couple of quick searches led me to two questions I would love to get answers for. 1) How do you dispose the frass that potentially still has baby roaches in it after the two weeks you mentioned, or has the beetles in it? I believe you don't just throw it in the bin. 2) Is it true that people (especially children and elderly) can develop asthma and/or allergies from red roaches as well as from dubia? Thank you very much in advance, and have a great day!

Hi, I'm so happy to find your videos. I just started with rearing crickets and redrunners and I red an article that they like humidity aprox 70 % as otherwise they will be dehidrated, so I literally started to sprinkle them ;D now I feel I should stop the watering and only give them some underneath heat with heating pad to keep them near 30 celsius

Beautiful video! Thank you so much. Do we need to give water for dubias, lobsterd or hissers. Cuz you said there are some differences in care. I planing to breed these 4 types :)

So I'll make a mental note if I'm ever a roach, never go on the small egg carton.

Hi, thank you for another great video! Just want to ask, do the larvae of those beetles shiny ? Or are they hairy? Because if they are hairy, then they are dermestids, but if they are just looking like small mealworms then they belong to another family called Tenebrionidae, the darkling beetles.

Good video,?Where do u get that big bag of wheat bran from?

What about using kale would be a good choice if they like it because kale is a perennial and you can choose the Ethiopian kind or the Siberian kind whether it's hot outside or cold outside there's a good kale that will continue to produce.

Those beatles i believe it came from the substrate grains,... you need to fry the grains to kill those beatles first before you give to them

where do the beetles come from ? Is there a way of preventing them ?

All the old stuff could go into compost and chickens

Hey Dave. I've followed your advice with my red runners. I'm getting lots of ooths but none seem to hatch. Any idea what might be going wrong?

Dave what were the white ones? How do the beetles get in and do they harm the cochroaches? I admire you having cochroaches crawling on you, I couldn't do it. In Australia our cochroaches luuuuuuurv the humidity - yuk it makes my skin crawl but then yours are clean because of their environment. Well done Obi Wan, the force is with you, 😀😁😂🤣😘

Thank you so much for this informative video! I'm receiving my starter colony soon and wanted to ask if the oothecas could be destroyed by freezing? I used to dispose of my giant land snails' used substrate via a freezer so the eggs wouldn't have a chance to hatch and cause a problem, so it would be pretty helpful if I could do the same thing when cleaning the enclosures of these roaches. :D

Looks like they're doing great! I'd only recommend that you wash the greens for pesticides. The roaches don't mind but it builds up in the Tarantulas over multiple feedings

when you dispose the rest, would they escape the trashbin and start a colony outside? is there a way to kill all of the living stuff inside the trash, just to make sure..?

And how and why ate there beetles I might of missed your explanation on that

I'm kinda scared trying out giving them salad since I gave some to our crickets and then like 1/3 of our colony suddenly died... even through it was high quality organic local salad. Oh... and sicne we don't have any beetles in there I have a pretty simple way of cleaning it. I take like half of the crates out, so the rest of the colony hides in the remaining. After I clean the first half, put the other crates one by one of it out while leaving the roaches inside.. when I'm done, they all migrated to the clean side and I can finish up the rest.

I love my red runner I keep mine on coco fiber and cork bark never had an issue I keep mine dry and spray the cork bark with water when I feed the spiders not a lot just a little and the all rush to the water which makes them easy to catch how ever I’m not using such a big tub and I have about a quarter the size of your Coloney

Whenever I google whether red runners can fly, I’m given the immediate answer that the males can. I’ve always been skeptical and it appears the males are doing no such thing in this video. So is it true or not?

Awesome video. Although, I have a question: do you separate the ooths in another container? Or you leave them with the main colony? Because I have some red runners but the ooths aren’t hatching :S so I wonder why is that? Do they need some extra humidity to hatch or what’s going on with them.

cant get em here in Norway , i tryed to buy from UK , but post shipped em back :(

I find some hairy caterpillars in my colony at summer every now and then is it ok or its harmful?

I don't think those are Dermestid beetles. The larva seems to be of a Tenebrionid species. Possibly that of _Alphitobius diaperinus_ (buffalo worm, lesser mealworm, litter beetle).

would these be ok for bearded dragon and leopard geckos? The beardie is very much a "im only going to eat if you tong feed but im going to start feeding in a large tub to encourage hunting. The gecko tends to panic if the live food tries to bite her. They both love dubias but never had red runners. Also what about lobster roaches

Hi Dave! Are you not feeding them oranges anymore?

How often do you need to clean out these colony's, im fascinated by them, i almost want to just keep roaches now lol

Hi Dave. Hope you’re well mate. I sadly had to eradicate my red runner colony due to an outbreak of mites. I had it really dry in there with lots of Ventilation. I thought this may have been due to lack of dermestid beetles in my colony. After watching your video now I see dermestid beetles are unnecessary. Do you think that I just got unlucky and some come in on a top up batch of breeding adults I added, or is there anything else you can think may have caused this? As it would be handy to get another colony going. Just don’t want another mite incident as was a nightmare to deal with haha.

there deadly silent till you put thousands in 1 tube and they sound like a river.

Hi David, thank you for this video, how do you Pick the babies out and make Them grow please? Will the adults not eat them if you put them back in?

Are these a pest variety or are they similar to dubia roaches?

the beetles in ur colony can u keep them to feed tarantulas

Can you use a toilet cartoon rolls for red runner's as replacement for egg crates?

do you have to do the clean out with bear feet does this help to do it easier hehehe

hi dave how i can give humidity to the oothecas ? maybe kitchen wet paper and put it inside a tupper? and lay the oot on the paper? direct contact ? or maybe wet cotton near the oots? thank you

I’ve used your video to start my colony around 16 months ago and works 👍 What I wanted to find out is I have been told that greens like lettuce are not good for the roaches and can constipate them and kill them? Is this true or not?

😱😱😱😱

Can you use chick crumb for food? I can't find small bags of layers pellets for sale and I only have a small number of roaches to feed.

Dave, can I use Vermiculite instead of wheat bran?

1 question the males have wings ? Don't they tend to fly off

I got like a couple hundred of these guys, but due to transportation with little space, some of the adults seem to be injured, like they're missing a leg or an antenna. Could this make them somehow not being able to properly reproduce?

Hi Sir Dave, may I know why my red runner had one piece big i mean huge size than regular size, It also looks like a house roache. Or it is a red runner that mutated into its larger form or its possible queen colony because it had no wings with same red color, Its huge size and can claim in a surface plastic box. Thanks in advance for the reply. Keep safe.

I don't know if you'll answer this question. I'm raising cockroaches, but the number is not increasing well and only the number of people who die is increasing. Can you advise what to fix?

Can’t find wheat bran. Here where I live. Can you use rice bran?