Has anyone here come up with a practical means by which to sort lobster roaches? I've set up a couple of hundered and plan set up another 1000 for breeding next week. Now I have literally thousands of little nymphs that I'd like to sort out and put to good use, but they are so small and well mixed in with the adults that it is virtually impossible to seperate them. I've tought about using graduating sizes of hardware cloth to allow the nymphs to migrate from one contaner into egg crate in another. It may take some coaxing to get the littl buggers to jump ship, but it may work. Any thoughts??
maybe some kind of screen big enough for the nymphs to fall through but not the bigger ones and just put that over a container and do allttle of them at a time until you have them all filter out?
What I've done is taken a small sterilite tote and cut out the bottom replacing it with 1/8 inch hardware cloth. Works great! Its large enough that I can shake my egg flats into it yet small enough that it will rest in an 18 gallon rubbermaid tote. Sure helps to be able to sort the roaches. Now I don't have to try to sort the speady little devils by hand. I just raise a batch to the appropriate size and feed away! I have another 1000 lobsters coming in today. I really like producing these. I'm also raising crickets and mealworms. Will have superworms set up in a couple of months. Who knows, maybe I'll be the next bug farm on the net. LOL
