Roach colony

In the autumn it will be five years that I’ve had a roach colony. In all of this time, I am yet to touch an adult. I don’t mind the nymphs but once they get about 1ā€ big, it’s tongs time. šŸ˜„
honestly i don’t blame you at all! I will say the adult roaches are the grosser insects i have, whenever i do handle them i will not let them crawl on me, their arms are suuuuper gross feeling and makes me kinda itch šŸ˜…šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚
 
Breeding roaches is a good idea if you don’t want to buy them continuously. How do you do it? Is there any special equipment or anything you need?
There isnt a whole lot you have to do, they have to be under temps of 80-90 or somewhere around there and its better to have more females than males so theres not as much competiton between the males, and other than that most of it is waiting! I got very lucky as the mix i ordered already had a few pregnant females so they've already been reproducing like crazy! and one more thing, if you have access to oranges or orange peels i highly suggest feeding this to them as for whatever reason it gets them breeding faster!
 
Just ordered about 100 mixed adult dubia roaches with a lot of juvenile and babies mixed in, hoping to get my roach colony booming soon! will update 😁View attachment 352820View attachment 352821View attachment 352822
i’ve added some wood into the colony and the roaches are absolutely loving it! I started with 150ish roaches and my colony is already up to 500 or so!
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