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    Outdoor Composting Pets?

    Which isopods and roaches would fare okay outdoors in shady, slightly sheltered area in San Jose, CA, where it only barely freezes at night or reaches 100° a few days of the year. I'm guessing at least A. vulgare, and P. dilatatus, and oriental roaches (Blatta orientalis) since they can be...
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    Trick or Treat? Pholcus phalangioides eats pumpkin!

    Happy Halloween! After my son scooped out a pumpkin he was carving, I fed some of it to a terrerium full of detritivores (roaches and isopods), and a small piece fell into the web of an invading Pholcus phalangioides. Not only did the cellar spider start eating the pumpkin, but it wrapped it in...
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    Powdery Blues vs. Zebras?

    Somehow some powdery blues (P. pruinosis) contaminated my zebra (A. maculatum) culture. Powdery blues seem quite capable of quickly outcompeting the zebras, but is there any way they can coexist or I can give zebras an advantage? Anything powdery blues can't resist I can use as bait to clean...
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    Carob Tree Leaves?

    There are several carob trees in the neighborhood, and my roaches and isopods seem to enjoy the seed pods I get for them. People are frequently pruning these trees back, so I have to wonder, does anyone know whether roaches or isopods will fare well with carob tree leaves?
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    Wheat Middlings/Mill-Run?

    A nearby feed store offers me, not wheat bran, but 50 pounds of wheat mill run for $12.14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_middlings I didn't know anyone could transport 50 lbs. of anything in this overpriced city for $12, much less the all the most nutritious parts of wheat. So is this...
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    Eublaberus sp. “Ivory” / biolleyi (IvoryHead Roach) as Cleaners?

    I like these Eublaberus ivory-headed roaches, but mine took a long time to reproduce, so I might have to buy some more for projects if you think the following will work. Will they eat snake excrement in a bioactive substrate? (Yuck, I know.) Will nymphs survive in substrate if it drops down...
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    Marijuana for Roaches?

    Recreational marijuana is now legal in my state, but I really don't have any use for the stuff. Would a roach colony be able to celebrate legalization or would it just kill them? Also, if roaches could safely eat marijuana, would gut-loading them on weed harm any pets you might feed them to?
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