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NOW I understand what MattK meant by the "explosive nature" of Blatta lateralis populations. Holy Cow! I started with 100 sub-adults just a few months ago. For nearly two months, nothing was happening and I thought something must be wrong. Nothing was wrong, I just had to wait for nature to take...

They are getting huge! I've got seven. They are only four months old and they are outgrowing their 100 gallon terrarium. I'll be building some outdoor housing much sooner than I thought.

She finally decided to wake up after five and a half months. Boy have I got some treats for her to eat!

Got my first adults today. I've only had them since the middle of December and they were fairly small when I got them. They matured much faster than I anticipated. Woo Hoo! :) Should have babies in a couple of months. I noted a large increase in their food intake about three weeks ago. Do...

The three lids contain water crystals, fruit of the day (oranges today), and pro-plan dog food with a little monkey chow. The leaf pile in the back right corner is two species of oak, maple and whatever Matt sent me when he shipped them. The branches are old oak branches that have been laying...

Ants found a tiny hole where the ceiling meets the floor near the shelf that holds some of my bins. They didn't do too much damage, but there were hundreds in each bin. I removed them mostly by hand, but kept finding more all day. Any ideas for how to get rid of them? I usually shoot pesticide...

Lots of good news to share! It was a big night last night apparently. Maybe it was the rain? My peppereds finally dropped some babies. There were some that were already on their own and one female that was nestled down part way into the substrate giving birth. Her huge white babies were all...

Where do these fall on the humidity scale? Dry, middle of the road, or downright damp? I've recently acquired ten and found my third dead one today. They've got two or three inches of damp soil/coco coir mix, egg flats and a leaf pile. Dog kibble, water crystals and fruit or veggies always...

Looking to buy several adult or subadults. Anybody tired of waiting and want to part with some?

I recently received a little starter colony of these and some of the females were near term when they arrive. I saw my first offspring today! Very exiting. From what I can tell, there aren't too many of these around. I'd like to get them going again in more roach rooms as they are really pretty...

My little female sulcata laid 7 eggs for me last night. Last year, around this time, she laid three, but all were infertile. She's still on the small side for breeding, but hopefully I'll have some fertility this year. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/431770...4923f10c7_b.jpg...

After her most recent molt, I moved "Charlotte" from her 4" cube into a 5gal. cube. I used about three inches of coco coir and she's digging to China in it! She went to the back corner behind her cholla wood and dug straight down to the bottom. Then she started digging horizontally, along the...

Got my first lobsters recently. ( so did my T's :D ) Those things are voracious! There are about 300, if you count all the little babies and they somehow eat nearly as much as one of my hisser bins. I put an 1/8th of an orange in there and it was down to the rind in about 45 minutes. In a...

Woo hoo! Finally got my first babies today. I got about 200 of them as sub-adults almost two months ago and I was starting to think something was wrong. There are only a few babies, but they are there. Man, those things are tiny. They make a pinhead cricket look big. I realize B. lats are no big...

Acanthosaura is the genus. Does anyone have experience with these?

All of my bins have a 3"x6", aluminum screened, vent hole on opposing ends of the bin. Does this sound like enough? Too much? I just guesstimated when I started building them and so far it seems to work in my room. What does everyone else do for 18 gallon bins? I'm about to make some new bins...

I've been feeding mostly baby hissers to my two little Brachypelma smithi because that's what I have in surplus. Occasionally, I'll slip them a dubia, or a found cricket, but I'm really trying to build up the dubia, and all the others too. Is there much nutritional difference between the...

Are there any forum members in or near Amsterdam?

My roach/reptile room has been evolving for several months now. I've got substrate in most of my bins now and I've bumped up the humidity in all my other tanks too. As a result the room stays between 40 and 50% RH. I've had to stop misting most of my bins as they started to get soggy. My...

Had an idea. Would it be possible and/or beneficial to have some of our senior members that have extensive experience and success with individual species, do a brief write up for each one? I envision this as sort of a "care sheet" for each species. They could be open for a bit of debate or...