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  1. BlattaAnglicana

    Blue death-feigning beetles - max humidity?

    HI all, I just bought 4 blue death-feigning beetles (very rare to buy in the UK!) at an insect show last weekend, and was wondering what the maximum humidity is that these can tolerate. The UK is quite a damp country ? and my home is also quite humid in general (I have to run a dehumidifier to...
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    Jet black Gromphadorhina portentosa?

    Just wondering whether it was possible to get a "jet black" morph of Gromphadorhina portentosa as I have got a couple in my (growing) colony. They are completely black all over with no sign of any lighter colouring, stripes or patterning anywhere on the body. I have a colony of about 50 adults...
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    Gromphadorhina oblongonota (probably hybrid) hissers taking ages to produce babies

    HI all, I have a colony of about 40 Gromphadorhina species (probably oblongonota but may be hybrids) hissers. They are all adults now approaching between 8 and 10 months old, and all came from four litters from two females, and maybe a small number of others from a third female who died and may...
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    Sad day - the first hisser I owned died today

    Well, it's a sad day for me as my old original male hisser who I got over a year ago died today  :(  I think it was just old age, as I got him as an adult so he must have been at least 6 months to a year old when I got him, and he had slowed down noticeably over the last month or two, so...
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    Change in behaviour - hissers more combative

    HI all, I've recently noticed a change in behaviour in my colony of Gromphadorhina species hissers (probably hybrids, though they look most like oblongonota). The colony currently consists of mostly adults with a few older nymphs. There are about 45 individuals overall, and all bar a couple of...
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    How many hissers in a 45x45x30cm (18x18x12in) terrarium?

    Hi all, quick question, how many hissers (Gromphadorhina species, probably oblongonota but may be hybrids) can a tank 45x45x30cm (c. 18x18x12in) hold? I now have about 50 hissers, about 3/4 of which are adults and the remainder large nymphs. They seem fine in there at the moment, they have...
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    Sick female hisser

    Looking for some advice here. One of my original female hissers that I got back in November seems very sick, she seems to have almost like a paralysis of her mouth parts (I've tried to feed her water and orange juice from a paintbrush but see no response at all, her palps and jaws simply...
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    Feeding whilst away

    HI all, just wondering what people do / what advice you have for feeding a colony of roaches when away? It will be for six days and there won't be anyone else I can ask to feed them, so I need to make sure they have enough food for that time. I'm definitely going to leave them a larger bowl of...
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    First adult!

    A red letter day - last night I had my first hisser nymph moult to adulthood from the group born in January! He is a magnificent male - sadly no pictures as I didn't want to disturb him whilst he was teneral and whilst I have seen him this morning he shot off to hide as soon as I opened the cage...
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    Looking for Elliptorhina javanica in UK, cannot accept postal deliveries

    Hi all this is a bit of a long shot but I am looking for some Elliptorhina javanica - I got given some males a while ago and am looking specifically for females or a mix, about 5-10 individuals. I thought I had found a supplier (as I have major issues accepting orders in the post, I have to be...
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    Cleaner crew for dry substrate?

    Just wondering whether it was possible to get some sort of "cleaner crew" to eat up the frass / shed skins etc. in a dry substrate - all the ones I've read about (isopods, springtails) seem to need moist substrate, but I keep my hissers on completely dry coco coir. I mist the enclosure walls and...
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    Clever little devils!

    I know it's not good to anthropomorphise or ascribe intelligence to creatures when it hasn't been proven, but the behaviour of some of my hisser nymphs over the past few weeks has made me think they must have some sort of "intelligence" about them - and made me laugh too, in a...
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    First Hiss!

    A couple of days ago during a cage clean out I was trying (carefully!) to extricate one of my hisser nymphs (born in January) from a crevice in piece of cork bark I wanted to move out of the cage. It really, really didn't want to budge, so I was trying to persuade it out by pushing it...
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    Babies!!!

    At last, some good news to report - one of my female hissers gave birth overnight and there are lots of new nymphs in the enclosure! :D   I don't know how many there are overall as yet - I have counted seven so far, mostly hiding in the crevices of the cork bark, but I have not yet lifted up...
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    Christmas Moult :-)

    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...
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    Another breeding issue :( - ootheca hanging out

    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...
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    How to tell hisser nymph instars apart?

    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...
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    How do hissers "hear" their hiss?

    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...
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    Money spider in same enclosure as tiny nymphs

    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...
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    Hisser nymphs whose mother has died soon after birth

    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...
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