Favorite leaf litter for Blaberus/Archimandrita?

RobertJFishing

First Instar
So in your experience do Oak leaves work best or better than Magnolia leaves? I am building an enclosure for A. tesselata and want to provide them a leaf litter for not only their comfort but the occasional munch. 

 
If you can get them, both would be great. It's a nice mix of textures, both for them to hide in and for visual punctuation. If you can only get one, I'd say probably the oak leaves- roaches seem to find them a bit more palatable. 

 
I feed mine dried sugar maple leaves, which is another hard wood. They love it. Most of my roaches prefer it to oak, but I only have access to Northern Pin Oak.

 
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