vfox
Blatta
I thought I would add a little side notation to my Periplaneta americana white eye experience.
I keep my white eyed strain mixed with a handful of adult Periplaneta australasiae. The adults seem to get along together just fine, I've never had a problem with it but I've noticed a slightly annoying trend lately with the australian nymphs vanishing. At first I thought a majority of the 1i nymphs simply escaped because I had found a few in other tanks during feedings. Yes, some did escape and no they never became a problem outside of their enclosures but otherwise I was wrong. It seems americans are not against eating other cockroach nymphs.
I noticed my P. australasiae nymphs dwindling until I had a small handful left; at this point some were 3i and therefor too big to escape from their sealed enclosure. I thought I must be missing something so I watched the last few nymphs until I noticed a large white eye nymph grab one and chew it up. I had my answer and pulled the adult australians out of the white eye bin. All of my australian nymphs are gone yet my remaining adults are perfectly healthy. Once I get a much larger nymph population again I will combine the species once more. I want them to co-mingle together so I will simply accept that I will lose some nymphs here and there. The general idea is to overpopulate with australian nymphs to keep the white eye's from being capable of devouring all of them again, haha.
Out of my 19 bins 5 of them are multiple species with similar care needs. This is the first time I've had a negative experience with multiple specie enclosures. Go figure it was with one of the easiest to breed cockroaches, haha.
I keep my white eyed strain mixed with a handful of adult Periplaneta australasiae. The adults seem to get along together just fine, I've never had a problem with it but I've noticed a slightly annoying trend lately with the australian nymphs vanishing. At first I thought a majority of the 1i nymphs simply escaped because I had found a few in other tanks during feedings. Yes, some did escape and no they never became a problem outside of their enclosures but otherwise I was wrong. It seems americans are not against eating other cockroach nymphs.
I noticed my P. australasiae nymphs dwindling until I had a small handful left; at this point some were 3i and therefor too big to escape from their sealed enclosure. I thought I must be missing something so I watched the last few nymphs until I noticed a large white eye nymph grab one and chew it up. I had my answer and pulled the adult australians out of the white eye bin. All of my australian nymphs are gone yet my remaining adults are perfectly healthy. Once I get a much larger nymph population again I will combine the species once more. I want them to co-mingle together so I will simply accept that I will lose some nymphs here and there. The general idea is to overpopulate with australian nymphs to keep the white eye's from being capable of devouring all of them again, haha.
Out of my 19 bins 5 of them are multiple species with similar care needs. This is the first time I've had a negative experience with multiple specie enclosures. Go figure it was with one of the easiest to breed cockroaches, haha.
