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[Blatticonjurist]

1. I currently have a single hisser nymph. It came from the floor of the insectary I'm interning at and I was told I could either take it home or sentence it to the freezer of death since it may have been exposed to poison during its time outside of its habitat and could not be returned home. So far I have no clue what variety or sex it is.

2. Just the one for now!

3. Pets!

5. Does anyone have any suggestions on another type of roach I could reasonably cohab with hissers? The lab is doing culling soon so I will have an opportunity to take some more friends home.

6. Found while researching cohabbing lol

You can check the last segment under the abdomen to determine sex; in females, it's a single uniform shape, while in males it's broken into 2 smaller segments. I believe this applies to all roaches and works well for hissers without obvious pronotum horns

 

[Bhjjr]

1. I currently have a single hisser nymph. It came from the floor of the insectary I'm interning at and I was told I could either take it home or sentence it to the freezer of death since it may have been exposed to poison during its time outside of its habitat and could not be returned home. So far I have no clue what variety or sex it is.

2. Just the one for now!

3. Pets!

5. Does anyone have any suggestions on another type of roach I could reasonably cohab with hissers? The lab is doing culling soon so I will have an opportunity to take some more friends home.

6. Found while researching cohabbing lol

There are very many species in the hobby right now, and you can cohab many with hissers. Are you looking for suggestions on what to buy, or are you taking home a different species being culled from the lab?
For potential cohabitating species maybe look at some of the smaller easy to start with species. Oxyhaloa duesta, Diploptera punctata, Compsodes schwarzi, Nocticola vagus, Euthyrrhapha pacifica, and Paraplecta cf. minutissima "Kenya" all could work.
Apologies for the late reply.

 

[DesertThorn6]

There are very many species in the hobby right now, and you can cohab many with hissers. Are you looking for suggestions on what to buy, or are you taking home a different species being culled from the lab?
For potential cohabitating species maybe look at some of the smaller easy to start with species. Oxyhaloa duesta, Diploptera punctata, Compsodes schwarzi, Nocticola vagus, Euthyrrhapha pacifica, and Paraplecta cf. minutissima "Kenya" all could work.
Apologies for the late reply.

For now I’m primarily looking at species I could get from the lab. I’m back and forth between school and home so I can only have a single small enclosure at the moment and don’t want to invest money in anything I wouldn’t be keeping a whole colony of. We don’t currently have any of the ones you suggested. Right now our ornamentals include giant drummers, firefly mimics, dominos, porcelains, a few types of hisser, glowspots, and question marks. We also have Florida woods roaches that I’d consider keeping even though they’re considered pests. I’m open to other low to moderate maintenance arthropods (isopods, millipedes, etc) as well but figured this might not be the place to ask about that

 

[DesertThorn6]

You can check the last segment under the abdomen to determine sex; in females, it's a single uniform shape, while in males it's broken into 2 smaller segments. I believe this applies to all roaches and works well for hissers without obvious pronotum horns

Thanks! I’ll take a look while rehousing today