My Roach bins

[Ozymandias]

took some pics of my roach bins (mainly because i'm bored) and thought people might like to see them.

Gromphadorhina grandidieri "Tiger Hisser" bin

Blaberus discoidales "Discoid roach" bin

Blatta lateralis bin

 

[Ozymandias]

Blaptica dubia bin

my bucket enclosures

not roaches but i keep a colony of isopods (rolly pollies, pillbug, ect) going at all time in case i need them as a clean up crew in one of my naturalistic tanks.

 

[Vulgaris]

Those are all very nice looking! I am pretty excited to get to set up a larger enclosure for my growing colony of Parcoblatta. I want it to be naturalistic, with at least an inch or two of soil, dead leaves, and logs. Yours look great

 

[makoygaara]

Your bins and set-ups look organized.

 

[hisserman]

Looks great! WAY cleaner then mine!

 

[Ozymandias]

thanks there has been a little reorganizing in some of my feeder bins to make it so i can get to the roaches easier for my reptiles so will post pictures.

 

[Ozymandias]

ok so as promised her are some pictures of the new set ups. basically i was sick and tired of the rack system i had built mainly because it was made of cardboard and the egg crates would catch on it when i tried to remove it. so i replaced that by gluing a piece of cardboard on to one side of the egg crates and stacking it which is much easier to deal with. i also stopped using water crystal because i kept getting maggots under the containers, now they get all there moisture need from fruit or veggies.

also here at some shot of some of the other enclosures i have that are more naturalistic looking. all of these are actually for roaches i just got today from Zephyr.

Giant Lobster Roach "Henschoutedenia flexivitta"

Flat-Horn Hissers "Aeluroda insignis"

Ember Roachs "Pycnoscelus striatus"

 

[Zephyr]

You're going to have some very happy P. striatus with a setup like that!

 

[Ozymandias]

im sure they like it haven't seen them since i put them in lol.

 

[likebugs]

Where do you get that hollow wood? It looks great.

 

[Ozymandias]

thats cork bark tubes i usually pick it up at reptiles shows, its a bit expensive but it's really good stuff and i use it in my gecko tanks.

 

[hisserman]

Looks great!

 

[Wolverine]

Those look great. Hope to have a collection like you someday.

 

[Ozymandias]

well started cleaning out and rearranging my room and first to move was may roaches lol. the nice thing about this set up is that i can run some heat tape under all the tanks and plug it in to the thermostat for my leo babies that are above the roaches.

 

[KitKatie329]

Very nice! I wish I had the space to do a rack in my room, but I just don't. Well, not in a size that would make me happy anyway.

 

[Ozymandias]

lol i understand that, the only reason this happened it because i'm slowly getting rid of most of the junk i've accumulated over the last couple year other wise no space at all.

 

[KitKatie329]

Haha, that's exactly what I did to get all of my bins in my closet! I like having less stuff and more roaches!