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Couldn't decide whether to put this post in Breeding and Nymphs or Enclosures and Barriers, so I put it here. I just set up my first enclosures with substrate and my B. giganteus nymphs are covered in "dirt". I used a mix of fine coco fiber(like bed-a-beast), coarse coco fiber(1/4 to 1/2 inch...

I just discovered that I already have a great leaf sanitizing system. Works like a charm. Fish em' out, let 'em sit in the sun a few days or weeks and Voila!, leaves for all of my roach enclosures. Might as well do something good with my pool in the winter. I'm not swimming in it with out a dry...

There might be some roaches here... I'm just sayin'...

Just got a starter colony recently and when I popped the top there was a male(smaller and thinner) hooked up to a stark white, freshly molted female. She dragged him a way immediately, leaving me no time to get a pic. At first I thought it must be her shed skin, but they were butt to butt and he...

Got some new questions. I've been using 18 gal. tubs with egg flats for all my sp. Now, however, I've acquired a few new sp. that I think require substrate. It seems like it would be a bad idea to leave egg flats resting on a moist substrate, so: 1. How does one "decorate" the enclosure? There...

I was rearranging my one of my hisser tubs today and when I emptied the roaches out of a paper towel roll out popped a big one in the middle of a molt. He gently landed on his back and continued working his way out of the old skin so I left him alone. My question is: what position do they...

I had about 15 to 20 very small babies. They are several weeks old and don't appear to be growing or molting. I'm finding the occasional tiny little dead body, so they aren't being eaten. They seem to be slowly dying off. The adults all appear to be fine. They've got water crystals in a lid. I...

My dubia culture is really taking off. It seems to have hit that critical mass point. I started it at the beginning of September with 100 mixed from James T. at the Anaheim reptile show. There were only a few adults and mostly large nymphs. Most of those nymphs are now adults and all of the egg...

Does anyone see a reason why this won't work? It is held together by hot glue. Will the roaches eat the glue? Will it hurt them if they do? I like it because it keeps me from squishing babies when I peel apart the egg flat layers to check on them. Seems like it also gives a lot of vertical space...

It is a well known fact that at least in some reptile sp., crocodilians and chelonians, for example, sex of the hatchlings is at least to some degree determined by the incubation temps. Does this occur in roaches? I ask because my adult B. craniifer appear to be all female. James T. told me how...

Okay. What's the deal with lateralis. I'm in the process of ordering some right now so I've been trying to read up on them as much as possible. There seems to be a lot of mixed info out there. I like to learn from other peoples mistakes/experiences, so here are my questions: 1. Can they or can...

I've got a B. smithi, about nickel size, and I've been feeding her(?) teeny tiny crickets and roaches almost every day. Well, she always seemed famished, so I gave her a bigger roach, about one third of her leg span, and the next day she refused food for the first time. She refused food for 11...

For many years I've kept my hissers in 40 gal glass tanks with some vaseline smeared at the top and toilet paper or paper towel rolls to hide in. I've always just sort of been a casual roach keeper of one common species. Well I've just recently jumped with both feet into the roach hobby and I...

Hello all! This is my official first post in my official first forum I've ever been involved with. I may need some help getting up to speed with using all the forum's features and observing proper forum etiquette. I've been keeping my own roaches since 1992 and caring for them since the...