Check out these roaches

[jamest0o0]

Gyna lurida(yellow porcelain) roaches. These have been the trickiest for me to get going of the gyna species(gyna caffrorum and gyna centurio being a bit hardier), but I finally have a few that made it to adulthood. They're very shy and hide so well. The camera doesn't do justice for how cool they look. Vibrant yellows and the bottom is a bright orangish/red. If one day I could get a booming colony going, I'm sure they'd make an enticing snack for a cham.

 

[janjan20]

Wow! So cool! But you forgot a very important detail...do they climb or fly?! ??? please say no and no lol!!

 

[Beman]

I second what @janjan20 said

 

[jamest0o0]

Haha yup, all the cool roaches have to either climb or fly, it's a law of nature. But to be honest, I've never seen them try and fly, or even climb up the sides. They like to burrow and hide under things. Even when I picked the one up it stayed on my hand. They stay very still sometimes

Oh and the nymphs dont climb or fly

 

[Beman]

Haha yup, all the cool roaches have to either climb or fly, it's a law of nature. But to be honest, I've never seen them try and fly, or even climb up the sides. They like to burrow and hide under things. Even when I picked the one up it stayed on my hand. They stay very still sometimes

Oh and the nymphs dont climb or fly

Great they burrow!!! Now a new form of terror

I like their colors though!

 

[MissSkittles]

Gyna lurida(yellow porcelain) roaches. These have been the trickiest for me to get going of the gyna species(gyna caffrorum and gyna centurio being a bit hardier), but I finally have a few that made it to adulthood. They're very shy and hide so well. The camera doesn't do justice for how cool they look. Vibrant yellows and the bottom is a bright orangish/red. If one day I could get a booming colony going, I'm sure they'd make an enticing snack for a cham.

They camouflage well in leaf litter.

 

[Beman]

Ok they look like little autumn leaves... awwww Ya know like when the leaves change into yellows and oranges in the fall???

 

[janjan20]

Definitely not the typical looking roach...Why do you have to make roaches look so cool. ??‍? I can pick up my discoids now with my bare hands so I’m one step closer to being an official roach wrangler. I owe it all to you James!?

 

[Hydra_cosplay]

Very neat roaches, the Bug Lord has shared more knowledge with us. Thank you wise one lol

 

[coastal_chameleon]

show us you Gyna caffrorum !!!!!!

 

[JoXie411]

You got all them sexy roaches still waiting for you to have more question mark roaches

Edit:
I went to check my gyna caffrorum (chrome roach) I got from you last year and I think my nymphs are almost ready for adulthood. I’m so excited to have adults

 

[jamest0o0]

Definitely not the typical looking roach...Why do you have to make roaches look so cool. ??‍? I can pick up my discoids now with my bare hands so I’m one step closer to being an official roach wrangler. I owe it all to you James!?

The roach hobby was missing zest, I'm just giving the people what they (never) wanted.

 

[jamest0o0]

show us you Gyna caffrorum !!!!!!

I'll get some pictures of them and maybe my centurio's will let me get a picture as well. I should just turn this into a roach appreciation thread haha.

You got all them sexy roaches still waiting for you to have more question mark roaches

Edit:
I went to check my gyna caffrorum (chrome roach) I got from you last year and I think my nymphs are almost ready for adulthood. I’m so excited to have adults

The gyna roaches are so cool, but take so long to establish it seems. On the upside, they pretty much live off of nothing. Some of these lurida were in a bin that I didn't touch for about a year... I thought they all died. Lots of cork bark, leaves, and moss for them to hide well in and the nymphs are super tiny.

All of my question mark adults died, BUT there are tons of little nymphs! I set a little trap in their bin to get an idea a couple days ago and caught a couple dozen of them. So hopefully within a year I have a somewhat thriving colony.

 

[Highway61]

The roach hobby....

Now there's something you don't hear everday ?

 

[jamest0o0]

Now there's something you don't hear everday ?

Youd be surprised. I'm tame compared to some of the real bug lords out there.

 

[Tony_S]

They do look very cool and colorful. I googled some more pics of them online.

 

[CJ's Exotics]

Those are awesome! They look just like the chromes, I'll have to get some! (I already have 4 chrome adults btw, they are growing fast!). Do you think the lurida can cohabitate well?

 

[jacksonchamnew]

There are people worried on youtube that the true death head roach is not being bred anymore. The roach saga.

 

[jacksonchamnew]

I think the Discoid roach is the easiest to feed to my cham. It is fat and does not move too fast and barely climbs.

 

[jamest0o0]

There are people worried on youtube that the true death head roach is not being bred anymore. The roach saga.

That's an issue with many of the blaberus genus. Discoids are almost always not actually discoids, but a hybrid mix of blaberus. I have a colony of pure discoids and the common stock(similar to how common hissers are hybrids usually) and they do have differences. The pure discoids seem to breed faster and are slightly smaller.

Deaths heads have a few different strains out there. Like Orin's, UCR, etc(tbh they all confuse me even haha). They have their differences, some are faster breeders, but not as pretty, some are larger, etc.

Blaberus fusca(dusky cave) might be one of the most underrated/unknown feeders there are. They are prolific and very similar to discoid. Main difference is the older nymphs and adults get larger, like between giant caves and deaths heads in size. So they are perfect for people with larger reptiles, but work just as well for smaller reptiles since the nymphs start off small.

Sorry I'm all caffeinated and on a roach rant!