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I promised myself I wouldn't post on here on Xmas day(!) but this makes it well worth it! One of the three remaining nymphs from the small litter my dead female gave birth to has just moulted, and I watched all of it happen - the first time I have seen a moult all the way through!  :)  I saw it...

Hello all, it seems I am really not having a good time with breeding my hissers  :(  I now have a female with an ootheca literally half out of her. This one is definitely not a prolapse as I can see the individual eggs in the ootheca, but she has been holding it like that, apparently half in and...

Hi all, another newbie question here! How do I tell (or even, can I tell) what instar a hisser nymph has got to, i.e. whether it has moulted to the next stage? The two (or possibly three - although I have only seen two at once, there are so many crevices in the cork bark for them to hide in...

Just curious really - does anyone know how hissers "hear" other roaches hissing? They obviously don't have ears like mammals do, and I am pretty sure they don't even have ear-like structures like crickets do, but I would have thought they must be able to "hear" or at least detect the sounds that...

Photo of the second female's prolapse - it's nowhere near as bad as the first one thankfully but still doesn't look good to me

Hello all, some advice please! I was just looking for my 4 day old hisser nymphs in the cork bark I have in my enclosure (which has a lot of small hidey holes) and I spotted a small money spider type spider (about 1mm or so in size) in a web in one of the holes. I have no idea where it came...

As you might have seen in the topic I posted on feeding, I had a female hisser give birth to a small brood of about three or four nymphs, then have a prolapse, and she died this morning two days after the birth. I am a complete newbie to roach keeping so forgive me if these questions are basic...

No it doesn't look like eggs it looks more like a piece of "skin" and she is dragging it along the ground. Here is a photo - should I be worried?

HI all, I have just (about 4 weeks ago) got three adult Madagascan hissers (as pets) - a male and two females. They are being kept in a small glass terrarium with a locking mesh top, at between 21 and about 28 Celsius (I think this is about 70-80F?) with the floor of the terrarium being at 28...

Hi all, just a quick post to introduce myself. As you might have guessed from my user name I'm from the UK, London to be precise, and have joined this forum partly because I love insects in general and it's nice to find a group of people who share that interest, but more precisely because a few...