Christmas babies!

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I awoke today to about 30 baby Hissers roaming around their enclosure. Yay for roaches for Christmas lol. Once the others have babies like I said, overrun! Lol. :)

 
vfox said:
I awoke today to about 30 baby Hissers roaming around their enclosure. Yay for roaches for Christmas lol. Once the others have babies like I said, overrun! Lol. :)
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Nice, it is always good to see a bunch of baby roaches roaming around the bin!

 
I have some Christmas (almost!) babies to add to the list! :P

I just watched one of my E. javanica give birth. This was the first time in 4 years of keeping roaches that I've actually seen a female in the birthing process (I've seen right before and right after, but never as it was coming out.)

Such a wondrous site.

 
Zephyr said:
I have some Christmas (almost!) babies to add to the list! :P

I just watched one of my E. javanica give birth. This was the first time in 4 years of keeping roaches that I've actually seen a female in the birthing process (I've seen right before and right after, but never as it was coming out.)

Such a wondrous site.
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Cool man, I've yet to see that happen. I've seen right after with my lobsters twice but never right as birthing happened. I did see it happen with my old Centruroides vittatus scorpions though. Btw Kyle do you have Periplaneta americana white eyed morphs? I got mine a few weeks back now and haven't seen a single ootheca yet. Don't P. americana lay one every few days?

 
vfox said:
Cool man, I've yet to see that happen. I've seen right after with my lobsters twice but never right as birthing happened. I did see it happen with my old Centruroides vittatus scorpions though. Btw Kyle do you have Periplaneta americana white eyed morphs? I got mine a few weeks back now and haven't seen a single ootheca yet. Don't P. americana lay one every few days?
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My first female was really weird. Maybe it was from frost damage when they were shipped, but she just couldn't lay any ooths. About 7 months after maturing she finally laid a really deformed one.

The tiniest female, who arrived missing 3 legs due to frost damage, and was only about 1/4", grew up and produced (and is still producing) plenty of fertile ones.

 
Zephyr said:
My first female was really weird. Maybe it was from frost damage when they were shipped, but she just couldn't lay any ooths. About 7 months after maturing she finally laid a really deformed one.

The tiniest female, who arrived missing 3 legs due to frost damage, and was only about 1/4", grew up and produced (and is still producing) plenty of fertile ones.
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Strange. I have two adult pairs and they look fine physically. The wings are a little messed up but I'm guessing that's from molting and not shipping. I'll need to wait and see I guess.

How often does yours lay ooths? And how many babies has that one produced? Or are there other adults now?

 
vfox said:
Strange. I have two adult pairs and they look fine physically. The wings are a little messed up but I'm guessing that's from molting and not shipping. I'll need to wait and see I guess.

How often does yours lay ooths? And how many babies has that one produced? Or are there other adults now?
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No idea on the number of ooths but I'm always finding them. There are a good 50 mixed nymphs in the tank now.

 
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