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    Sweet chunks for Cockroaches :-P

    Hello friends, Cockroaches love sweet... I feed all of my colonies very often with homemade sweet croquette... and I really recommend it ? I try all the time with new ingredients, but the base of my recipe is: -Chicken feed // Cat food (I pass the cat food through the blender to get a powder...
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    Phortioeca phoraspoides & Elliptorhina chopardi living together :-)

    Hello there friends! ? I use to mix different species (...that apparently could live together —similar environmental necessities, non-aggressive behaviour & the most important, no possibilities of hybridisation)  This time was Phortioeca phoraspoides & Elliptorhina chopardi... and...
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    Megaloblatta longipenis — Breeding Project

    Hello friends! :-) Spoiler: Yes, I did it, but...  :P Some months ago I've start my first topic here in the forum, asking for information about care and breeding of the genus Megaloblatta, to find that as it seems, there's not any available information at the moment, and... that every known...
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    Paratropes phalerata — Breeding project

    Hello there friends, I've started breeding these magnificent species. Paratropes phalerata is a diurnal cockroach that lives on live plants. In some literature has been cited as an important pollinator :-) I've been trying several ways to keep them... At the beginning I've tried to emulate an...
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    How do I breed Red Runners (Shelfordella lateralis)

    Hello friends, I wasn't sure about to start this thread, but maybe it could be useful for someone :-)  I breed Red Runners using the same "cricket breeding model", and I've found that is a really organised way to breed this species. I guess it begins with the harvesting of oothecae. Every...
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    How many eggs could lay Pachnoda spp.?

    Hello there friends, I was wondering ¿How many eggs could be able to lay Pachnoda marginata? I've found some very different answer to this question... some forums says that not more than 10; and some others that around 80 Any of you know something more accurate about this? I'm just starting...
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    Blaptica dubia ¿What's wrong with her?

    Hello there, I've just take a look into my Blaptica dubia colony and I've found this...  Anyone of you know what's happening here? Thank you very much for any info :-) 
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    Pycnoscelus Mixed Colony

    Hello there :-) I've been thinking on a way to make funnier a Pycnoscelus spp. enclosure. I'd like to try a communal colony between P.surinamensis, P.nigra and P.striatus just because they are visually different. ¿What do you think? ¿Maybe not healthy? Some of these species could be...
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    Smallest Non-Climber roach in the hobby?

    Hello there everyone, I want to show you one Colombian species I'm breeding some time ago. Is a very small Ectobiid species (Adults with no more than 5 mm); a fast breeder (I already have a decent number, and that's the first generation, in the video you can probably see some of the 7 adults...
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    Do Periplaneta australiasiae smell?

    Hello there everyone. I was just wondering... do all species of Periplaneta smells like P.americana?  I'm asking because I'm thinking about to start a culture of P.australiasiae, and some breeder told me that only P.americana really smells bad; but the odor of the other Periplanera are...
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    Anyone breeding termits?

    Hello there guys, I was just wondering, ¿Is there anyone here breeding any from the infraorder Isoptera? Related pic: Some individuals that I've just found in my house :-) 
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    Care and breeding of Megaloblatta spp.

    Hello there everybody, I'm new in this forum; I've just enjoyed some threads and looks very helpful... I'm an enthusiastic on the cockroach breeding... and recently I've got an small group of non-adult Megaloblatta sp. I've been keeping them as any roach from wet places; but I'm afraid to mess...
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