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Looking through a lot of dedicated homemade roach chow recipes, I see brewers yeast mentioned a lot. Never bakers/bread yeast. What's the difference? I see that brewers yeast is inactive. Is that the main factor? Can live yeast be harmful to roaches? Then there's nutritional yeast, or yeast...

Same 4 litre cereal canister with gasket lid and gasket hatch, and tough-as-nails beech twig. Now with more and bigger vents; hopefully chew-proof bamboo; Spider Shop vent door relocated for top access; and 1 inch of olive oil around the rim. And a few hundred dazed and confused roaches.

From 13l to 18l, better vents, actually transparent so I can see them. 6" waste pipe offcuts chopped up, scored, and stacked up for hides: Cork bark for more perching spots: Lastly, since I got back into invert keeping I've had 'cross ventilation, cross ventilation, cross ventilation'...

Beetle jelly and £27/kg Tetra pond pellets. 🤨 I've mentioned already, my orange heads - and other roaches - are looking a bit picky about their food these days. But stick in a pot of beetle jelly and they've already gnawed big holes in it, after a couple of minutes. That alone has made me think...

I'm currently gathering and preparing containers for new colonies, in anticipation of the spring and of people willing to ship me live insects again. Some of the roaches I have in mind (listed in the 2022 ambitions thread) seem a bit escape-prone compared to what I've already kept, so I've been...

I've mentioned before, I used to keep Archimandrita tesselata years ago. Second time around, they were very hard to find, and I'm trying to make a point of breeding them. I started with twelve nymphs last year. One moulted to maturity on it's way to me, and died a day later. Three nymphs died...

Unoccupied at the moment. At a local pet shop I saw this 3l jar with a couple of pots of gecko jelly left in it. I bought the jelly and the owner kindly let me have the jar too. I've just got round to sticking a couple of vents in it. 80mm vents with two (2) layers of nylon mesh (James...

Hello all, and happy new year. I'm curious about what kind of roach-related projects, resolutions, hopes or daydreams you all have for 2022. A rare species to obtain, a tricky colony to breed? I'm fairly basic. I've taken a liking to small, colourful roaches. I wouldn't mind adding a jar of...

I've had my new red-headed roach colony for about three weeks. From what I read about them, I noted 'they like to climb', so I decided to give them plenty of vertical space and set up a ~4 litre cereal container for them, with long pieces of beech bark and twigs to rest on. Boy do they like to...

I've a couple of palynivorous roach species on my grail list, so I'm looking up commercially available pollen substitutes around here. It looks like online beekeeping shops sell large patties, at least 1kg/2lb, that are designed to be opened and left out in beehives until they're done. Given...

Hello all. I'm fixing to set up a small Oxyhaloa duesta colony with a bit of a focus on security. I'm using a gasket-sealing tub and for ventilation, some of the screw-on vents from the Spider Shop, this side of the ocean. They're supposed to be able to keep phorid flies out of tubs, but would...

Or: 'nuther Northern Ireland newbie. :) Hello all. I'm Warren. I used to keep exotic pets years ago, starting with garter snakes and some amphibians, moving onto inverts like tarantulas, scorpions, phasmids, and other insects and arachnids. In terms of roaches I've kept Gromphidorhina...