Private breeder feeder & pet exotic roaches. Residing in sunny S. Ca. This blog is all about my collection of various critters, past & present. You'll find care sheets, tutorials and various information on my former reptiles & current inverts.
My single pair of adult Blaberus fusca (Dwarf Cave Roaches) produced some babies. I only have 6 or seven babies now. The female layed an egg case almost 2 months ago which produced nothing and just recently noticed a second egg case which produced a few babies. So if these little guys and gals survive, they should be breeding themselves in 3-5 months.
I originally found this pair in my B. dubia roach bin a few months back after they had matured. And just a few days ago, I pulled an egg case just like the ones produced by single pair, out of my B. discoidalis roach bin. I yet to find a female among my discoids. Please note, these B. fusca roaches appear to be egg layers and live baring. On the Internet there are a few sites that say there live baring, some say egg laying. Mine layed egg cases that hatched externally. What’s your experience? Leave comment! This is a start to a new colony of roaches for me. So I was pretty excited for the new additions.
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This is a video update of my Superworms (Zophobas Morio) tutorial I did a couple months ago. You can view the original tutorial here.
Showing the progress of their growth. They went from about ¼” – 1½”, and they are plump. Haven’t determined how many I have, but there’ a few 100 I’m sure. I feed these to my adult Bearded dragons and larger Tarantulas, they love them. And being that I raised them my self, I know what there getting nutrition wise.
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This video tutorial illistrates the way I keep, raise and breed my B. lateralis roaches. This species make a great feeder for Tarantula slings to average adults and baby to medium sized Scorpions. There about the size of an adult cricket, much more active and smell less, can’t climb smooth surfaces, don’t jump or make noise. No crickets here.
B. lateralis are a tropical species roach meaning they don’t survive well in cooler climates below 60°F. In turn won’t infest your home if you live in the USA, excluding Florida. B. lateralis are prolific breeders. The ootheca (egg case) the females (wingless/black) drop all through the bin hatch anyway from 3-20 weeks depending on temps and humidity levels. I have personally found that the ⅛” nymphs are a good alternative to pinhead crickets. My slings and baby scorpions eat them up. There is little to no oder depending on size of colony.
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Showing off a new addition to my ever growing collection of reptiles and inverts. I received a Eublepharis macularius (Leopard Gecko) free a few days ago from my local pet store. My sons & I frequent the lps often. My boys by rodents for their lizard & snakes, while I check for new tarantula species and scorpions.
While my youngest boy was in the lps picking up food for his snakes, the owner gave him the Eublepharis macularius as seen in the photo. She had no history on it and decided not to sell it. I thought, “how cool”. I had been thinking about getting a Eublepharis macularius to add to my collection.
After doing some research online and setting up it’s enclosure, I think their a really cool and interesting species of lizard. Oh, and if you have never seen one of these shed it’s skin, you must see. Do a search on YouTube. They literally pull and eat their skin off their body.
I have plenty of food for it, sense I raise and breed my own mealworms and I have plenty of feeder roaches of many sizes to substitute for crickets. It’s currently in a 5 gal. size enclosure with newspaper as substrate along with a food and water dish. It sleeps inside a toilet paper rolll for now till I find something more appropriate.
If anyone has any tips for me caring for this fine specimen, please comment below. All comments are welcome. Thanks for reading, Greg Hagedorn.
