Incest in roaches

[Psycada]

I currently have some hssing roach nymphs from the same egg sac and I was wondering, if they happened they happened to breed (not purposefully) and have nymphs would that harm the nymph genetics? I'm separating them anyway as I don't want more nymphs OR incest, but I'm curious on if incest will harm roaches the same way it does for other animals.

 

[Randomjoe]

It won't hurt them to breed and won't cause genetic problems

 

[Hisserdude]

Inbreeding doesn't seem to affect most commonly cultured cockroach species in the slightest, so there's no reason to separate them.

 

[Bamboo]

I'm sure wild population commit incest. When you crack open a log in Madagascar and there's 10,000 hissers, probably most of them are related? 

 

[jebbewocky]

I had multiple generations of Blaberus giganteus from 1 M/F pair. The only "issue" I noticed was seemingly increasingly strange pronutum patterns, but that could easily be observation bias.