Recent content by Kaddock

I've been successfully culturing Gromphadorhina portentosa for quite some time now on a diet of mixed fruits and veggies, and fluker's hi-cal cricket diet gut-load powder on the side. Now every store in town has stopped selling the powder, so I bought some fluker's orange cube diet. The equality...

It seems like every time I get anything moist I get these yellow mites! It's been happening for quite some time and I always just assumed they were grain mites. Almost identical mites swarm in all of my house plant pots with sphagnum moss though, so I'm led to believe they are all the same type...

Hello! I haven't been on in a while... :P But, I now have two questions that I was hoping someone knows the answer to: 1: How do I sex Blaberus giganteus? 2: I was under the impression that Gromphadorhina portentosa only eject their eggs to dry the case and then hold them until they...

Well, for some reason I decided to put some of my pollen/honey blend in with the gutload my roaches dine on. It's all gone, and in less than a day. So they seem to dig it... But I spotted a half inch nymph on it's back in the dish, seemingly paralyzed, and reeking lightly of honey. He almost...

There is thousands of little mites near the gut load bowl in my roach enclosure, I hadn't noticed any before, but the bull roach spilled the container and now there is tons! What do I do? :blink: I scooped the largest congregation of them out along with the substrate they were in / on, but...

I would like to keep my Gromphadorhina portentosa colony warm enough to breed... I have a digital probe thermometer in the middle of the eggcrate castle in my ten gallon enclosure, and I can't get things above 75ish F. I am burning two sixty watt lamps with their cones (vented) directly sitting...

I have never had this problem in a forum before... How do I set my controls to auto-subscribe to my threads and notify me? I can't seem to find this option!!! :(

Well, I've started my first colony of Gromphadorhina portentosa colony, and am still working out the arrangements! So... I have seen the wide menu of items that they enjoy, and am looking forward to hitting them up with a salad variety. On the meaty side, however, I had a question. I have read...