Recent content by Paulie Bleeker

got a order from them the other day (red runners, turtle roaches, and buffalo bettles). all came with an obvious over count. and they arrived alive and well and packaged nicely. totally recommend them

i tried google-ing it but just keep getting reptile forums with mixed answers so ill ask the pros, how often do lats have ooths? how many nymphs from one ooth?

i started with 13 common hissers (5 males, 8 females) since then they've given birth a few times, now i have HUNDREDS of nymphs and they're growing quick some are pushing an inch and half. but now the issue of crowding is on my mind, how well do hissers take crowded conditions? is it...

i had to stop at my works office to get my check the other day and had to use the bathroom (which we share with the gym nextdoor) the gym had put out a bunch of free samples of some health food crap, of course i looked thru and figured ill try some on my roaches. turns out my dubias LOVED it...

I've decided that im going to get some death's heads but am caught between what cultivar. are the differences all that drastic? what do y'all think?

I've been keeping my hissers in a plastic critter keeper but recently a few females finally had babies and was concerned about escapees so switched all the nymphs to a 32 ounce deli cup with a cloth mesh top and am now haveing mold problems. how do you all keep yours?

has anyone tried these as feeders? do they reproduce quick/easily enough to make sense to use as a feeder?

how do i post pictures? got a weird dubia female that i figured was worth shareing but dont know how to put the pics on here

i was on bugs in cyberspace and saw he's advertising a "roach jelly". anyone got experience with this? is it the same as regular jelly?

im looking for somewhere local that sells roaches i can go and hand pick some out. i don't like to buy things on the internet and i want to pick specific individuals. is anyone on here from NH or MA and willing to let me rummage through their colonies? looking for: adult dubia w/ less than...

this site seems to be the place for bug info, so ill try. does anyone here have first hand experience breeding tomatoe/hornworms? I've looked around the web but sometimes i feel its always just one persons take on it and it reverberates throughout the internet

new to all this, so sorry if my question seems stupid. what factors constitutes a roach being deemed easy or difficult to keep?

about a year ago my savannah monitor passed (just over 10y/o). I'm ready to get another, in the past i kept a LARGE enough colony of dubia, only species i knew of at the time (besides hissers), to sustain her out of. but while i was going about getting new dubia i stumbled across all the other...