Hello World!  Welcome Friends! From reptiles to spiders, dubia roaches are the perfect food to choose for your insectivore pet. Keep reading the reasons to choose below.

Dubia roaches are one of the nutritionally superior foods for insects, reptiles, and some bird species. Since it is not widely available everywhere, most pet owners who are unaware of this kind of roach often prefer crickets and other bugs to fulfill their pet’s nutrient content. Dubia roaches are not only healthy but cost-friendly too. And your pet will enjoy having dubia roaches in every meal.   

There are a number of reasons for choosing dubia roaches for your pet today. So, if you think dubia roaches are over-hyped, then I will break this misconception today. 

Dubia Roaches Benefits for Pets & Owners 

Nutritional Benefits of Dubia Roaches:

Let us look at some of the major nutritional contents in dubia roaches that you hardly knew. 

Protein

High-density protein is not a luxury for your pet but a necessity. Where a simple cricket provides 18 percent of their protein requirement, a single dubia roach provides 61 percent. This means that one dubia roach is equivalent to three crickets. This amount of protein for a single meal will fill the pet’s appetite and accelerate their physical growth. Furthermore, dubia roaches are meatier, which your meat-lover pet will cherish.  

Chitin

Chitin is a fibrous content found in bugs and worms, and it is mainly indigestible. In arthropod skeleton animals, chitin is required in a small amount to develop their skeletal structure. However, too much consumption of chitin causes digestion issues. 

In dubia roaches, there is only 3.5 percent of chitin present compared to other feeder bugs, which have over 10 percent chitin. This amount of chitin in dubia roaches isn’t a big deal considering the presence of other vitamins and minerals.  

Calcium

Metabolic bone disease is a common health issue for many pets. Since they are not getting sufficient calcium from their natural habitat food, their bone health requires special care. Most feeder bugs do not come near the calcium content needed by insectivore pets. Although there are artificial calcium dust supplements, experts suggest providing the calcium in food form rather than artificial calcium dust.  

However, dubia roaches have 560 mg of calcium, which is close to the required content for healthy metabolic bone health for insectivores.  

Hydration

Like proteins, vitamins, and minerals, hydration is also one important factor for an animal’s healthy growth and well-being. A dubia roach has 85 percent water content, which provides adequate hydration to your insectivore. If your pet faces health issues from dehydration, a feeder insect-like dubia roaches can play an important role in hydration apart from water.  

Fat

All living beings require dietary fat to help them make their essential lipids. Moreover, they can store the fat inside their body to use it later. Dubia roaches’ fat is mostly protein that they store for reproduction or to tackle food scarcity for a short period of time. 

Conservation Benefits of Dubia Roaches

Let us look at the aspects of dubia roaches other than their excellent nutritional values. 

They’re House-Friendly

As a pet owner, you will be relieved to read this. Cockroaches are well-known for spreading diseases. The way these pesky animals creep through bathrooms and kitchens is quite scary. 

With dubia roaches, the case is different. Unlike other insect feeders infesting your home, dubia cockroaches are absolutely calm and quiet. They live in both dry and humid enclosures, have a mostly plant-based diet, and do not attract unwanted mites and bugs. Therefore, for those of you who are afraid to bring roaches in the house, dubia roaches are your ultimate call. 

They Breed a Lot

A mature female dubia roach can reproduce 35 babies every other month. However, you have to provide them with the right environment. The bottom line is, you will get a steady supply of dubia roaches if you invest in buying some extra dubia roaches just for breeding. Once they breed, feed them to your pet and let the new ones grow and reproduce. 

Odor-Free

One of the unique and most advantageous features of dubia roaches is that you won’t get foul smells and odors from them like crickets. Since their diet consists of plant-based food, they do not naturally emit an obnoxious smell. There will be an organic smell to them like every creature, but nothing unbearable. Even if the dubia roach dies, sufficient hydration in their body will keep any odor away for a long time. A slight musky smell will be all you’ll notice.     

They’re Noise-Free

Dubia roaches are calm and quiet creatures by nature. You will be impressed by their behavior if you have ever experienced the unstoppable sounds of crickets. Dubia roaches like to find a dark and quiet place to make a habitat.  

They Don’t Fly

What a relief! One of the scariest and creepiest sights is seeing a roach flying. However, this will not be the case with dubia roaches; they can’t fly. They just pitter-patter their feet softly while they walk. They also do not jump or climb, which means they won’t escape their enclosure. This quality makes the roaches easily consumable. Your pet won’t have lost its energy for ‘catching’ its food.  

They Don’t Bite

Another commendable feature of dubia roaches is that they are 100 percent harmless. They won’t attack or bite you or your pet. However, when they are starving, they tend to nibble anything that comes near them! That’s it, but it goes away once you provide them food. Therefore, always keep your dubia roaches’ stomachs filled.

They Eat Everything

Lastly, dubia roaches eat all healthy and vegan. Since they are feeder insects, it is essential for them to eat healthy to benefit your pet. Dubia roaches are the easiest to maintain, as you don’t have to search and buy extra insects for feeding them. You can keep them satisfied just by providing them with fruit or vegetable peels.

Final Thoughts

I hope that I was able to give you enough reasons for choosing dubia roaches to feed your pet. These roaches are the safest and by far the healthiest feeder for insectivores. If you have never bought dubia roaches, do your research because there are similar-looking roaches from other countries, such as Argentine roaches, German roaches, etc. Once you get your hands on some dubia roaches, your insectivore pet’s feeding problems will be solved.

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