Feeding animals that you can buy in pet shops are often, due to the long transport distances and the poor accommodation in cricket tins, without ingredients and therefore worthless food for your animals. They also die very quickly at home if you don’t feed them quickly. Therefore it makes sense to breed the necessary animals yourself. One way that many people try to avoid is to breed chocolate cockroaches. This type of cockroach reproduces very well, but unfortunately also in the home. And I don’t know how you do it, but I regularly have my feeding animals escape the box while feeding them. Sometimes they also reproduce in the terrarium, where they quickly lay an ootheca in the ground or set them down while they are being eaten. Through the sliding doors at the terrarium you have no protection against the tiny young animals breaking out.
Some isopod species are perfect as feeding-animals. They have a high calcium content and are not pests that reproduce uncontrollably in the home after an outbreak. It is important that the propagation rate is high and that the development time is as short as possible.
Of course, the size of the feed animals plays a decisive role. With normal house crickets the size varies between micro and adult. The size varies from 2 mm to 25 mm. Many isopod species can cover these sizes, but there are species that would be more suitable for some sizes. Therefore the question, which size should the feeding animal have?
