Zephyr's Amazingly Awesome Roach Thread

[infernalis]

A couple of my bugs......

[GartersRock]

I likey the top one! I only have a trio of nice hissers right now. But I hope to pick up something new at the Jan. show.

[reptile3]

Soooo Don, the roaches reproduce? OMG!!! I have allergies, but I have 2 cats in the house, I am supposedly allergic to them. Thank heavens for Advair & Provental!

reproduce like mad???? thats an understatement. I donated my collection to my friend at the rescue.....had over 3000 in a tote!!! I cleaned the tote out one day and had the worst allergy/asthma/sneezing fit ever!! the dust from the poop bout killed me!!! after finishing and hitting my inhaler I was exhausted!

[reptile3]

Wayne, i like to top buggy too!! They are cute when you don't see 10000 of them at one time!

[drache]

Kyle
I hope you don't mind if I post a non-roach on this thread
I don't want to start a whole new thread and this seemed to be the most appropriate place for another invertebrate



that's a piece of apple
the boys like apple, the girls have shown no interest

[Zephyr]

Ah, phasmids. I'd like to get some one of these days.
Right now I've just got the roaches, 2 cricket species, mealworms, and red flour beetles. :P

[infernalis]

Hey Kyle, scroll up a little... What kind of roaches are they??

Got them from you

[drache]

Hey Kyle, scroll up a little... What kind of roaches are they??

Got them from you

they're Blaptica Dubia - Guyana orange spotted roaches

[infernalis]

Thank you Rhea...

Chomper is amazing, He can smell them!

Dorothy had Chomp out free roaming in the reptile room, and I was changing the "roach pen" (cleaning out the droppings and replacing the leaves) and son of a gun if that big lizard didn't run right over and started head bunting the box they were in!

So I gave in and let him have (I think) 8 of the medium size ones.

They are amazing bugs, Resilient and nearly indestructable...

[Zephyr]

Orangehead colony.
These guys have a horrid defense smell, and they don't push their frass to the side like a lot of other roach species do, but they are by far the "cleanest" in terms of leftovers and etc.
They reproduce like mad too. >>