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.
Thought I would share my ne Gromphadorhina portentosa (Madagascar Hissing Cockroach) colony. These roaches are huge, 3 inches plus. These types of roaches make good pets for some. Adult Hissers have been know to live up to 5 years in captivity. They can also be used as feeders for large lizards and tarantulas. As adults, they have a hard exoskeleton for protection. I weigh an adult female and it weighed 11g.
Both males and females are wingless. Males are identified by prominent protrusions called pronatal humps on there thorax that appear to look like horns. Males are also territorial. They will buck heads and push around any male that tries to enter his territory. Males without a territory don’t usually breed. So make sure you give your colony plenty of floor space Females give live birth after about 60 days to anywhere from 15-40 nymphs. These things hiss when disturbed or to ward of predators.
Humidity levels need to be high for this species. High humidity and temps promotes good healthy molts and good breeding. Hissers eat just about any kind of vegetables. Carrot is said to be one of there favorites. They also need a high protein diet to prevent adult males from eating others. Substrate isn’t needed, but if you decide to use it, red wheat bran is said to work best.
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Feeding video of my little 1 inch+ Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens “Green Bottle Blue” slings. There eating B. lateralis roaches. These C. cyaneopubescens have more than doubled there size in the last few weeks. They have been feeding really well and growing like weeds. Looking forward to there adult colorations
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Feeding video of my little 1 inch+ Brachypelma smithi slings. I managed to catch 4/7 catch there B. lateralis roaches. The others that didn’t eat either recently molted or were in pre-molt. Some pretty good tags. There starting to show there adult colors. Another molt or two and they’ll be looking good.
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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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