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Hello, After much internal debate and turmoil, I have decided to sell off my glass climbing species to focus on other projects. I have the following available: Madagascar Hisser, Gromphadorhina portentosa Colony of ~40 adults and at least ~40 nymphs. This colony has been producing quite...

Hello, I have had intermittent problems with phorid flies in my roach colonies (which then spread to my reptile enclosures too!). I have tried the drying and cleaning method but with the reptiles there too it is really hard to completely remove them. Does anyone know where I can get some...

How does everyone sort their roaches? There has GOT to be an easier way to sort large number of roaches than doing it by hand. Thanks, Kyle

Hello, I have decided to get rid of my orange head roaches (Eublaberus prosticus) and focus on B. dubia instead. I have a VERY large colony of orange heads that I feed ~200+ babies out of per week! I don't know exact numbers but I would estimate total numbers to be well over 1.5K mixed sizes...

Hello, In our lab we have two separate roach species that we use as feeders. We have both orange heads (Eublaberus prosticus) and dubia (Blaptica dubia). Well our lab assistants did not listen when I gave them detailed instructions regarding feeding time, keeping the colonies clean, etc...

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-illegal-roaches-purchased-orlando-20110128,0,5408492.story Just goes to show that people actually get caught doing this in FL. Granted it was probably the forgery that really got him in trouble. -Kyle

With the hybrids that people are producing these days and the possibility that very different species can interbreed, is there a good dichotomous key or other ID guide to tell the different species from each other? I am just getting into hobby roach keeping so it has not be an issue until now...

Hello - This is Kyle (scaledverts) from the Philadelphia area. I have been keeping reptiles and spiders for some time and started keeping roaches as a food source. However, recently I have started keeping a number of "pet" species due to the variety of really cool roaches out there. I...