Behold!

[Klyde O'Scope]

Had the chance. Tried it. Wasn't any good at it. Didn't like it. Got another roach shipment due in tomorrow's mail.

 

[Persnickety Parson's]

Had the chance. Tried it. Wasn't any good at it. Didn't like it. Got another roach shipment due in tomorrow's mail.

You can save so much money by buying a bin, putting a heat pad on the side, or a very low level heat emitter, some coco coir and eggcrates.


Look within yourself, you can do it, and your wallet will thank you.

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

Yeah, that's why I have a bin, heat pad, coir, screen, & pile of egg crates sitting under the table collecting dust.
BT-DT. Don't ned to throw good money after bad.

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[MissSkittles]

Look what I caught today.

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She's either laying an ooth or rotating it before putting it back in her body for incubation.

I disturbed her while checking for dead hissers so hopefully she isn't rattled.

Freaked me out when I saw the ooth sticking out of one of my roaches. Had no idea that’s what it was and thought it was a well-endowed male.

 

[MissSkittles]

Yeah, that's why I have a bin, heat pad, coir, screen, & pile of egg crates sitting under the table collecting dust.
BT-DT. Don't ned to throw good money after bad.

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What happened to your colony? It took a few months to get mine really going and multiplying and I love that I’ll never have to worry about feeders.

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

What happened to your colony? It took a few months to get mine really going and multiplying and I love that I’ll never have to worry about feeders.

Basically, it got fed to—and eaten by—a couple of piggys in lizards' clothing.

 

[Kaizen]

Giant cave anyone?

 

[MissSkittles]

How can you guys let these giant roaches walk on you?! I had a very large almost adult accidentally crawl on my dress and I freaked that I had to touch it to capture it.

 

[Persnickety Parson's]

How can you guys let these giant roaches walk on you?! I had a very large almost adult accidentally crawl on my dress and I freaked that I had to touch it to capture it.

I'm sorry, what?

 

[Persnickety Parson's]

At last I'm catching up to @jamest0o0

My last roach addition for a time, it's time to play, guess that roach.

I've have about 100, they were on sale, and I couldn't pass it up.

They are small, but theirs no rush to be feeding them off.

 

[jamest0o0]

At last I'm catching up to @jamest0o0

My last roach addition for a time, it's time to play, guess that roach.

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I've have about 100, they were on sale, and I couldn't pass it up.

They are small, but theirs no rush to be feeding them off.
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Those are eublaberus, orangehead if I have to guess, but could be small pantanals too

 

[jamest0o0]

How can you guys let these giant roaches walk on you?! I had a very large almost adult accidentally crawl on my dress and I freaked that I had to touch it to capture it.

I have a male hisser in this colony I'm selling, I swear hes like bigger than an adult mouse. I picked him up, but get a little iffy haha. The peppereds and giant caves are freaking massive too. Can't imagine one of the rhino roaches.

 

[Persnickety Parson's]

Those are eublaberus, orangehead if I have to guess, but could be small pantanals too

Orange heads. Darn your good, they are tint nymphs too. Lol

 

[jamest0o0]

Orange heads. Darn your good, they are tint nymphs too. Lol

Pantanal are pretty similar too, but get bigger. They're my go to Parsons feeder

 

[Persnickety Parson's]

Pantanal are pretty similar too, but get bigger. They're my go to Parsons feeder

I wanted the Orange heads as an "ambassador" since the adults are so pretty, and given their highly predatory nature, could possibly be a "garbage disposal" for freshly dead inverts.

I know Orin uses them as a means of euthanasia for critically injured mantids, I guess his colony consumes them within seconds.

 

[Persnickety Parson's]

I found stow aways.

I betting dermestid beetles.(at least 3, likely more) Well I think I can keep them appeased with the chicken pieces that the dog food comes with.

I have a separate dermestid culture in the process of starting up, im unsure if I'm going to deliberately use them as a clean up crew just yet.

 

[Hisserdude]

I found stow aways.
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I betting dermestid beetles.(at least 3, likely more) Well I think I can keep them appeased with the chicken pieces that the dog food comes with.

I have a separate dermestid culture in the process of starting up, im unsure if I'm going to deliberately use them as a clean up crew just yet.

Those are Alphitobius diaperinus actually, "lesser mealworm beetles" or "buffalo beetles". A type of darkling that can be useful as cleaners for some feeder insects like dubias.

 

[Persnickety Parson's]

That is awesome, you are the darkling beetle expert after all.

 

[Hisserdude]

That is awesome, you are the darkling beetle expert after all.

Haha thanks, I wouldn't call myself an expert, more of an avid enthusiast. ;p

 

[Hisserdude]

Some of the species I'm working with ATM, had a much larger collection before I briefly left the hobby in 2018, I am still slowly rebuilding my collection.

Panesthia angustipennis cognata "Cambodia". Got ten of these beauties to work with, hopefully I can get a colony established!

Nymphs:

Adult male:













Adult female: