Feeder auto ship feedback wanted

[trail mirage]

Hi folks I have decided to swap over to Dubia.com for feeders and i wanted to check my order by yall to see if it looks ok. Hopefully not too many or too few lol.
I want to set up a discoid colony and the adult dubias will be for my Dubia colony. Eventually I’d like to get colonies for mealworms too but not sure how far out that is.

All help is appreciated.

[trail mirage]

Feeder auto ship feedback wanted

[cerulean nexus]

do you want to have this on auto-ship bc that's a LOT of feeders

like for the bsfl alone that's 200 bsfl youre gonna need to feed off within 4 weeks

@trail mirage is this for one lizard or multiple? do you know how much you feed off in a week? atm imo it looks like youve got A LOT of food incoming but if youve only got like one lizard do you envision yourself running out of the previous food by the time the next shipment arrives?

[trail mirage]

Tis for one lizard but she eats daily since she’s still a baby

I wanted a colony for the dubias so I figured having replacements come would allow their numbers to still grow while feeding

But point taken! Maybe bsfl every 7 weeks? And skip discoids since I have Dubia

@cerulean nexus and for mealies maybe like one large batch in the fridge every 14 weeks?

[cerulean nexus]

basically its a matter of "how many can you see yourself realistically feeding off"

or even like, i wonder if it'd be cheaper not to have a recurring delivery haha

[trail mirage]

Numbers are not my strong but you may have a point with not doing recurring

Then I can actually judge what I need

[cerulean nexus]

ye

i think you can always just make another order when youre starting to run low

then you can figure out the frequency you're feeding things off

stuff like hornworms grow insanely fast, like almost exponentially growing haha

[trail mirage]

So basically treat it like I do with my current feeders from the local store

[cerulean nexus]

yep!

just different in where it's coming from

[upper minnow]

i get 500 mealworms and it lasts me like 3-4 months

and that's with 4 geckos

[cerulean nexus]

200 is a massive number

[upper minnow]

yuh

even when shortcake was a baby i wasn't going through them super quick

[cerulean nexus]

not to mention in the case of the bsfl if youre keepin them at room temp and uneaten some of those r gonna become flies

[upper minnow]

bsfl turn into flies so quickly

FUCK YOU REMINDED ME I HAVE TO CHECK MINE

LMFAO

[cerulean nexus]

LOL

[upper minnow]

i mean they all like flies

so it's fine ig

but

😭