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Yesterday, another one of my female giant cave roaches molted, and by night she was dry. Before I turned off the lights in my room, I noticed a male trying to court her. He only did the thing where the extend their wings and push their butt on the ground once, but he was shaking constantly and...

I've noticed in my lobster roach colony that a few of the dead adult and sometimes juvenile roach corpses I find have a bright redness to their legs and mouth area. I don't know if this is the cause of death, but I'm finding more and more cavaliers like this. Any idea on what it is?

I need help finding a good airline with low-priced round trip tickets. :P I'm going to search around for some new roaches to introduce to the hobby. Let's face it, the stuff we've got right now is getting kinda "stale." Any species I should keep an eye out for?

An ooth a friend sent me hatched today, and I was wondering if I could throw some of the little mantids into my lobster roach colony. Are there any risks to this? For the roaches sake, not the mantids.

Does any one have a labeled diagram of a cockroach foot/leg?

Sold as fumigata. Look a little big to me. Not all of the males have full wings. http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/5237/img0587dr2.jpg Female http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/595/img0588ip5.jpg Winged male

What are the best temps for the following species? Formosan sand roach Red and Black cockroach Porcelain roach Pink roach Harlequin roach Egyptian sand roach Byrsotria rothi Byrsotria fumigata Elliptorhina chopardi

1. Do the burrowing roaches *Byrsotria spec.* like a bit of humidity? Is keeping them on vermiculite with some dead leaves ok? Is room temp or a little higher good for them? 2. Do harlequins like alot of humidity? What are good temps for them? 3. Do Madeira roaches like humidity? What are good...

I'm wondering whether or not they can eat boxelder wood. What do you guys think?

http://www.petsr4u.com/proddetail.asp?prod=kt00569 Do you think this would make a good roach food? It's digestible apparently and made of alfalfa.

I tried using this for my P aegyptiaca and was going to use it for my other substrate requiring roaches, but it appears to irritate them. *they were trying to climb up the sides of the enclosure* Is it okay to use as a substrate, and were my observations simply their reaction to a different smell?

Do these guys need substrate? Can they climb glass/smooth surfaces?

K, today we had a break in the winter weather and temps got up to 40. While visiting my friend's house, I was SHOCKED to see some odd bugs flying around her shrubs. What could they have possibly been? I have NEVER seen bugs in the winter, and it was a total surprise with snow all over. BTW, I...

Pics up soon when I finished it. It's a black sweater with a pic of some hissers crawling over plates and etc with the subtitles: "The exterminator calls it a problem. The son calls it a hobby." Then on the back it says "Mother of a Blattologist." I'm so excited about it. X3

I finally decided to get off my lazy butt and isolate some virgin black hissers from the colony. I've got them in a small rubbermaid container with a mix of moist peat moss and vermiculite, and they should be staying at a day temp of 76 and a night of 74. I'm not looking for them to crank a lot...

Just thought I'd get a memorable pic for our collector's album. :P I bet that the nymph is thinking: "What are they doing?" XD Perhaps I should get a copyright on this pic. o.o

Usually at night or after I shift the substrate, I hear little squeaky noises coming from my Polyphaga aegyptica. What're they doing?!

Yet another one of my B. giganteus had a mis-molt, mainly because it couldn't find the vertical wood I put in the tank. Also, she looks like another roach took a chomp out of one of her wing pads. Would it be ok to snip off the remainder of both wings? Will she still be able to function properly...

IT was around 10:30 yesterday night, and I was just shutting of all my tank lights with the roach heat light still on. All of a sudden, I heard the frantic sound of scrambling roach feet and looked in the dubia tank to find a bunch of males running around and jumping around frantically! I...

I'm freaking out because I haven't gotten an incubator yet, or vermiculite, and I have two weeks til the eggs are due for laying. Any brands I should check out or something? DX