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I've had my first A. tesselata adult show up today, and he seems to be in good health. I'm wondering how long it takes these guys to harden up completely, though. Overnight or longer?  Here he is, newly molted. He's hanging on the sandstone background, and that's a petroleum jelly "no domino...

I absolutely love the look of Gyna caffrorum, and I think I'd like to try keeping a colony of them. They don't seem difficult to keep, but I'm trying to figure out how to balance appearance and practicality, especially as far as preventing escapes. I'd like to put them in an Exo Terra, hoping to...

There are American roach nymphs (I think) in my domino roach enclosure, and I want them out, but I don't want to risk hurting the dominoes. Anyone have any ideas on how I could build a live trap to put in? I figure I could just set it in, then sort the roaches inside and put the ones I want...

Are there any isopods that can be seen out and about when their enclosure is lit by ambient room light? I'd really like to set up an itty-bitty isopod vivarium for display purposes, maybe even something multi-layered to look like the inside of a fallen log, and I'd like to be able to actually...

I went to a ComicCon yesterday, and there were some people there who'd brought some reptiles, both preserved (dead of natural causes) and live. They also had some roaches, including some peppered roaches, that they'd brought as display. The roaches weren't intended to be sold, but, when I asked...

I have an 18" cube vivarium housing some domino roaches. There's one adult male that I'm aware of, and a bunch of nymphs of mixed sizes, including a female nymph who was quite large when I saw her last.  I've seen the male exploring fairly often, he comes out a lot in the evenings. This...

My domino roach terrarium has some isopods in it. I didn't put them in on purpose, they migrated over as babies on a goat skull that I brought from another terrarium and apparently didn't clean off well enough. The goat skull is against the glass, and I can see a few isopods crawling around in a...

Yesterday I put a small, dried-up, dead lizard (kudos of a cat) into my domino roach enclosure to see if they wanted it. They don't seem to be too interested yet, but it got me curious.  What other weird foods have people tried with their roaches? I've also given my dominoes dried krill...

I want to try to make a 'burrow' system out of something hard, maybe clay, that I can put up against the glass of a domino roach enclosure. My hope is that I can provide small, dark spaces, accessible by burrowing, that the nymphs will come into where I can look at them. Maybe with a cloth...

Are heating rocks good for roaches? I have a colony of domino roaches that I'm moving to a larger terrarium, and I want to keep it warm. I keep my room in the mid-60s for my own comfort, and I know that's a bit too cold for these guys, so I want to ratchet it up to low-to-mid-70s in some parts...

I have some domino roaches, and two of them have just fully morphed out into adult forms. A male and female, I think? One is larger and shorter-winged than the other.  Male? Body roughly nickel-sized. Female? Has one orange spot. Body roughly quarter-sized, larger than the other. The...

I know we have these in the area because I've found a couple of dead ones, and now I'd like to find some live ones. I'm in Central Texas, and there's a vacant lot with some old trees next door to my house, plus a gas station about a mile away that's surrounded by forest. I assume these would be...

I have a 2.5gal aquarium that's currently housing about 10 domino roach nymphs. They have a coco fiber substrate that's an average of 1.5" deep, plus a deer antler stub, a piece of pecan bark, and some miscellaneous dead hardwood leaves. They also have a lot of mold. I'm trying to use them as a...

I'm starting up a dubia display colony. I know that's not what most people use dubias for, but I kinda like how they look, and they seem fairly bold if the light isn't too bright. Worth a try.  I don't really want to deal with having several hundred extra roaches, though, so what can I do to...

Last night, I saw something green and oval-shaped running across my ceiling. First thought: "well, that looks like a banana roach."  Second thought: "that can't be right, those live in South America."  So I get my butterfly net, and I catch it, and it is clearly a banana roach. It's little...

All my horseshoe crab roaches are about adult size, and they all have stubbly little wings. Does that mean they're all males? If yes, anyone have a couple of female horseshoe crab roaches they're willing to sell? 

Well, I have grain mites in one of my smaller enclosures. And, since it was sitting on top of my large enclosure, probably in there as well.  From what I've gathered, grain mites are sometimes allergens for people, might eat eggs/nymphs if I have an absurd amount, and are basically inevitable...

I assume these little buggers won't hurt the roaches? I have both. I wouldn't care, except that my roach tanks are in my room and the occasional high-flying gnat always seems to head for my face.  They're actually going to be useful, though. I'm getting some carnivorous plants for Christmas...

There seems to be a fairly large amount of variation among the species, depending on the source stock, and some of them are entirely brown and orange instead of having any black on them. Looks like it wouldn't be too difficult to start with some of those paler individuals and breed a light...

I have no idea what these are actually called, or if they even have a common name, but here's some cool damselflies. They were perched at the top of a 20ft wall over a river, and there were probably at least 12 switching out between sitting on the plant and flying. They were surprisingly bold-...