Zephyr's Amazingly Awesome Roach Thread

[Zephyr]

Hisser people! If you find these little bugs on your hissers, RELAX! They are beneficial in that they're eating fungi that could possibly cause you allergy problems off of your hisser's exoskeleton!

[reptile3]

After looking at that pic of that roach, my arm felt like I had something on them!! ha ha

[Loren]

My Blaptica dubia (guyana orange spotted) cochroach colony. I started with just a few from a 2007 reptile show.

[drache]

they're amazingly easy to breed
I'd just gotten a few for feeders and when I saw that they'd had babies during shipping, I decided to go for it

aaaahh - I just had a realisation
when my turks get out of hand, all I have to do is take away the substrate and they'll stop reproducing, right Kyle?
I've not had much luck getting them sold at expos, even if they're priced close to crickets
what's wrong with those people? don't they know superior feeders when they see them?

[infernalis]

They don't know any better I guess....

Chomp prefers them, I have never seen him go after crickets with anywhere near the same enthusiasm as the roaches.

[Lori P]

I decided to hunt for the roaches this morning as I haven't seen them in a while. WOW the hissers got big!!!!!! I mean, quadrupled in size since I last saw them!!!! The peppereds are growing steadily too. :-)

Hisser




Peppered




They seem to be doing well, Kyle.

[reptile3]

Lori, very nice!!! Your peppered s look great!!! Aren't they the coolest?

[Zephyr]

Good to hear everyone's stock is doing so well.

[Zephyr]

Nifty find that I'm getting checked out with the roach community:



Dark brown versions of a normally tan species; The species is also parthenogenic, so if these are due to different genetics as opposed to nutritional influence, there may be some questions yet to be answered about the self-cloning process.
Also, I discovered an individual with a "jig-saw" deformity, or uneven pairing in the abdominal plates. She's being kept alone to duplicate, and I'll be checking the babies for the mutation.

[Snake lover 3-25]

interesting...... neat find hope you get some results!! so kyle... aprox. how many roaches do you have?