Most of the advice on dubias is targeted at people who keep lizards who need dubias of a particular size to eat. So there is all of this sorting and trying to make a huge colony. Although I'm no longer scared of my dubias, I don't really want a massive colony of them. My ants can eat any size. I pre-kill them for the ants (but serve fresh so the legs are twitching) It's working great.
I have some adults in my tiny box of dubias, I think they have maybe reproduced once since there are little ones but I was not watching them carefully so maybe not. I have a male with wings, and two adult females. I've learned to spot the males and I try to weed them out so there aren't too many adult males.
Is it possible to keep a colony going without all the sorting and trying to drive their numbers up? I need about six per week medium. Or nine small. Or four adult.
Any tips on keeping these going longer? I don't mind ordering more but if that could be once a year that's better.
