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I have a number of items that I will give away for free to anyone who is willing to pay the postage. Magazines: MANY issues of Reptiles: Guide to keeping reptiles and amphibians. Issues date from the mid to late 1990s A few issues of Repitle and Amphibian Magazine from Mid/late 1990's Books...

I don't feed off enough of my roaches to cut a dent in the colonies, so I am hoping to sell a few to support my obsession hobby. I basically sold what I needed to. I still have a few dubia, but not so many as I had before. I can still sell a few, but the big group is gone. Thanks for looking!

A friend forwarded me this article... it seems too good to be true. Thoughts? news.stanford.edu/news/2015/september/worms-digest-plastics-092915.html A short quote: In the lab, 100 mealworms ate between 34 and 39 milligrams of Styrofoam – about the weight of a small pill – per day. The...

http://distractify.com/animals/2015/12/20/mark-dead-roach-memorial

Filled my coffee cup with hot coffee this morning. A dead (probably cooked by the hot coffee) L1 hisser was floating in the cup... fished it out and drank my coffee. My first thought was to get a fresh cup... and then I thought... "I wonder how many have walked through the cup and I never knew...

I might be receiving some Symploce sp. in the near future. I found some basic care information on Roach Crossing (AMAZING SITE) but I was wondering if anyone had any tips for care, horror stories of escapees, etc. Thanks!

I see on Facebook that Fluval is giving away free samples of fish food to Canadians. I can't see the entire offer (likely because I have a USA address) but I thought maybe some Canadians on here might be able to take them up on the offer! https://www.facebook.com/fluval?fref=ts

I saw the below picture on another discussion board, and was wondering if anyone knew about these- are they a different species? Or are they a color morph of Lobsters?

I received some orange heads awhile back. I split the group into two. One of the groups went belly up in the past couple of days... Care conditions: I was keeping them in a gallon jar with sphagnum substrate, placed in an incubator. Incubator runs 35 C or a bit higher. They had a mite...

http://www.gocomics.com/stonesoup/2014/11/09#mutable_1229613

Has anyone ever used Java Moss for substrate/food? I pulled a bunch out of my fish tank, and rather than throw it away I decided to try it in my main hisser enclosure. It's been in the tank with them for a week, and they don't seem to like or dislike it. Sometimes I see them on it, and there...

I noted a male hisser in my colony that is not symmetrical. Some of his body segments toward the end of his abdomen seem to connect incorrectly across his back. I am not really sure how better to explain in. I tried to take a picture, but it was not very good quality. It may be awhile before...

I was adding water to my firebelly newt enclosure and saw numerous tiny insects/creatures climbing up the glass as the water level rose. They were pale gray, and too small to distinguish any detail. (the terrarium has a water side and a "land" side (aquarium gravel with numerous plants- peace...

I thought that this image was amazing, so I am sharing it: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wp020414/s_w01_NicolasR.jpg

I realized that I have an incubator in my classroom. It maintains 37C (100F), but does not seem to have a way to adjust the temperature settings. It is a lab-line model 150. I have hissing roaches. Would attempting to rear nymphs at 100F be a bad idea? Is this too warm? Thanks for any...

I'm currently using gallon pickle jars to raise my roaches. I was wondering if anyone else did so and could share ideas. Right now, all I have are G. portentosa. The adults are in an aquarium, and I have been separating the nymphs into gallon jars because: I have a good supply of them (the...

So, I've been lurking on this site for a couple of months now- I was given a small colony of Hissers from the wife of one of my wife's coworkers... yeah... maybe I should have said "a family acquaintance" Anyway, I'm a high school biology teacher, and am generally interested in living things...