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Colony thriving the sub is now churning with tiny nymphs I'd guess they're the fastest breeding roach I've got out of 25+ colonies apart from the lobsters and runners obviously but certainly the fastest producing large roach I've ever had and they really are huge the smallest is 8cm and there...

So when I clean out my runner colony (Many 1000s of them) which because of my set up takes literally a few minutes I then separate all the egg cases (I'm saying egg cases to save any beginners asking what an ootheca is)  I put them in a plastic box on damp coir sub with a sealed lid and Voile...

So recently I finally managed to produce my own orange dairy cows not many yet as I'm isolating what I've got but being dairy cows I'll probably have millions quite soon I've also found someone who's literally got 1000s so I've bought a 100 small (If I buy pods i like to rear them myself from...

That's actually an older pic the colony is 100s now  SB 

I cut fresh tall stemmed grass every day or every other day for my recently acquired locusts and I had quite a bit left over the other day after filling my grass holders so I put it in with the lobsters and they cleared it completely in a few hours nothing left not even a stem and as I've said...

Just a quick follow on about Moss I completely forgot about this tub it was just soil with some dandelions I was growing for the iguana and Moss just started to grow so I left it as it doesn't effect the dlions and this is the result so it can be grown from nothing but this has taken many months...

Two 5.8L Bra plast tubs (this is my small sorter)  I have a MUCH bigger version for sorting out whole colonies if needed) I have my own barrier on both tubs so I can sort climbing and non climbing roaches and I've used 1 bolt with washers in the middle of each side for the top tub to sit on...

Finally got some Hoff's a couple of months ago and I've got several lots of babies already the colony is doing amazingly well  SB 

That's a great attitude I'm very lucky I've got a pretty much unlimited supply without effecting the area  Don't know if this is of any help to you they maybe worth contacting  SB 

Technically Moss doesn't  have roots it has Rhizoids but in my opinion it's basically the same thing from a collecting and looking after it perspective  I've included some pics from my Moss stash outside before I've cleaned it up and removed grass etc Close up to show green part  Cut out...

It thrives in very dull conditions mate some of the Roaches and pods I use it for have no direct light at all and it's fine as long as you keep it sprayed and if your collecting your own you have to get a good root system with it because the big mistake people make is they take the green top bit...

Some adults hanging out at the live Moss end which seems to be their favourite spot SB 

My own high protein dry food with sweet red apple and banana  SB 

My own high protein dry food with sweet red apple probably their favourite plus butternut squash and banana also added some fresh crushed leaf litter  And spotted first new nymphs today so I guess I'm doing something right as this is a new colony started recently SB 

Taking all the new Moulted adults out the nymph rearing tub After sorting and putting the new adults in the adult breeding colony then everyone gets fed  Super chuffed as spotted the first new nymphs in the adult colony today and only started the adult colony fairly recently SB 

DOMINO nymphs_compress_1.mp4  Domino nymph rearing tub after removing all the fresh adults to put into the adult breeding colony  SB 

And the small pot to save anybody asking is just a fruit fly trap which essentially stops any FF issues due to the fruit I feed as since I've started using it not a single fly problem  SB 

I don't usually put dubia in what I call my posh tubs (gasket multiple latches) but I wanted to Rehouse and they were all I had at the time and I'm a bit OCD and i like my stuff to match so they all went into them that pic was taken before I put the Voile screen on the top it would be a better...

So just a couple of quick pics of my Halloween Hisser colony and one of my (normal colour) dubia colonies swarming my own Roach chow and it's not like they're hungry they have food available all the time  SB