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Niche Biz: Selling Roaches

By on September 27, 2006 in Ideas

13 year-old Kenny Hogrefe operates in an unusual niche in the pet food business. He sells live lobster roaches, the preferred meal of many reptiles.

Hogrefe started his business after the lobster roaches he bought to feed his pet chameleons began breeding more than he needed. Lobster Feeder Cockroach is commonly kept in the U.S. as a food source for arachnids and lizards due to their ease of rearing and palatability.

Kenny’s Feeder Lobster Roaches serves customers in 15 states. He also runs a web site where he sells 100 roaches for $13 and uses PayPal to process his credit card orders.

Photo by Kenny’s Feeder Lobster Roaches.

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  • http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/glitter_grl456/nishiland.jpg apamochi

    this is our roach we are trying to sell

  • cassy

    i hate that thing!my god! if that is the case then i will start collecting them.even if i hate them i will try to like them just to earn money from them.why there are some people very creative mind and make roch as good business? yaks!

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