Hey there guys! My name is Jae, and i would like to care for Question Marks!

Dang I meant to say toilet paper roll lol! xD Lots of my bugs like to hide in them, and I have seen alot of people use them.

 
Oh hey guys. We are finding conflicting info on our Madagascar hissers. We have a dark one with very small/no horns. and a plump one with big horns and very bright orange markngs. Which one is the male and which is the female? The darker one is more relaxed while the brighter one likes to run all about.

 
oh,.so 'carlos' is actually a juvenile female. and 'juanita' is actually an adult male.

well crap.

My friend told me he saw one of them with an egg case out but that it 'sucked it back in' (as gross as that sounds).

Since there were two adults and two juveniles and juveniles cant have eggs, and the adult we have is male, im going to assume the pregnant one he saw isnt one of the two we picked out. Which means i need to trade out this female for the other one.

Back to the pet store xD

 
Alright. We went back to the pet store and got the adult female.

I named her Lady.

So now we have Chika, Lady, and Carlito. Chika is the juvinile.

Do you guys know how long gestation is for? My friend told me he saw someone pushing out an eggcase but that they sucked it back in?

How long till we know if the eggcase is viable?

 
Gestation is usually 2 months sometimes long sometimes less.

They thermoregulate their egg cases (pushing it out sucking it in)

You'll never know if the egg case is viable. If it's not the female will push it out and drop it. Don't try saving it cause it's not gonna happen lol. With egg case laying roaches, if it shrivel ups it's definitely not viable.

 
oh thank goodness, i thought pushing it back out and pulling it back in was her way of trying to reject it and then changing her mind?

We have been keeping one side of the enclosure moist and have the whole thing sitting on a heating pad, which is evaporating the moisture in the enclosure pretty quickly. We are having to moisten one end of the enclosure every day.

I hope that is normal.

Soon i'll be ordering some Question Mark nymphs and another enclosure to house them in. i'm so excited.

 
welp,.our critter keeper cracked. im thinking its from the heat and moisture? idk. Im going to walmart on the 6th when i get paid to buy that little 15$ tank made of plexi. trying to find a nice 2gallon tank made of glass is a pain.

 
LOL after talking to my friends at the Fish Bowl shop in town they are going to sell me one of their little 2gallon glass tanks with a glass lid for like 10 bucks when i get paid. Totally happy about that.

Also,.what you guys think about this?

http://s316.photobucket.com/user/thelocolady/media/fat%20girl_zpskjwaz1le.jpg.html

She looks a lil tubby eh? My boyfriend thinks its been too long and that she cant possibly still be preggo,.but shes pretty rotund compared to the other two.

 
They can be gravid for quite a while. What I did for my hissers was I heated them for a while to get them in the mood and then took them off heat. They always gave birth once I took them off of heat

 
well, we have them on a heating pad right now,.but because the little thing we had them in cracked we've had it turned off all day, trying not to melt it or crack it further. and no babies yet.

 
Okay so, i got the container for my Question Marks today. I'll be ordering them soon. Like five for so just because idk. im a girl and i just want to feel like im giving them all attention you know? i want to get them out and hold them like we do the Madagascars.

I'll be keeping my Q'Marks in a 2 gallon hexagon fishtank with a heavy lid. I paid my BF 1.50$ because i feel bad for using his coconut fiber xD

I still need to buy a climbing branch for them from the Fish Bowl (my friends' shop) and silicone up the hole in the lid.

I like the shape of this tank, i just wish it were glass because the heating pad cracked the Hissers' enclosure. The temperature strip says its about 86-87 degrees in there. Is that enough to crack the plastic? or is it the hot/wet combo?

Can someone PLEASE take some pictures of the QM's in their hands?

There are seriously TWO videos on YouTube and neither are exactly helpful.

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Also, about the QM ooths.

Should i take them out when i find them?

In a container like a 2g hex, will the number of ooth pile up and litter the ground?

Ill only be getting five or so, and i know it takes the ooth a while to hatch (3 months from what ive heard) but how often to they lay ooth?

What temperatures should i keep the eggs at if i do decide to remove them?

should i set them aside so i dont damage them while cleaning the container?

Should i /not clean/ the...how often should i clean it?

im worried.

My goldfish died today.

im depressed.

i really want my roaches to be healthy.

 
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