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Use a peeler. Peel a carrot. Keep peeling until the carrot is a pile of carrot peels. Feed roaches the peels. All my feeder roaches (dubias, hissers, red runners, lobsters) love their carrots in peeled form. Probably a lot easier to eat. Yes, a bit labor intensive.

Been here since 2016. Lurking and learning. This is a great resource. 0.2 M. rhinoceros. They and I are looking for a male or males M. rhinoceros, preferably mature. ~200 Therea petiveriana many more Nauphoeta cinerea (not-very-popular feeders) even more Shelfordella Lateralis (feeders) a surfeit of Eupolyphaga sinesis (probably should be feeders) several hissers, impure stock (started as feeders, developed an attachment) I think I found this place after joining arachnoboards, via Elytra and Antenna

Thanks! Do I need to help these migrating larvae migrate off her? They certainly seem tenacious. Moved the roaches to a shallower, dryer enclosure. They huddle around the water dish now. Enclosure looks much like the one bugsincyberspace has in this vid:

This seems to be afflicting just the one animal. Whatever it is, it does not wipe off easily, meaning I have not wiped or scraped it off--don't want to stress her if I don't have too. Could it be damaged cuticle or a mismolt? Fungus? I don't think it's mites because none of it moves. There's a thriving springtail population in the enclosure. Any suggestion as to what it is and what to do is welcomed. Thanks. K G https://ibb.co/kKt355r https://ibb.co/T16HPN6 https://ibb.co/zHRXwYg https://ibb.co/L6ycstf https://ibb.co/1MHHdP5

Grid-pattermed woodworm that flees the light. "lucifugus" is an awesome name.

That's exactly how I keep my saussurei and aegyptiaca.

Hi birdonfire. I know this qualifies as an "Old Post". Try to use untreated hardwood if you're going to use wood at all. Antisapstain compounds are considered potentially unsafe for workers in the wood treatment industry.* it is not unreasonable to presume that the same applies to arthropods. Bark and pieces of wood from nearby hardwood tree should work. Bake them first to avoid uninvited guests. You might also consider using rocks and toys and other things lying around the house so long as they don't contain toxic chemicals. Paper towel tubes? Roaches can survive on a lot of things. *https://worksafe.govt.nz/dmsdocument/365-safe-use-of-timber-preservatives-and-anti-sapstain-chemicals

AAA! Thank you so much. These are lateralis? Huh. Curiouser and curiouser. I haven't used them as feeders for maybe a year. While they don't scurry up, Home Depot tubs and smaller Herpcult enclosures are scalable for them given enough time. Fine dust from coconut fiber might be on those surfaces. They've gotten out of tubs with Vaseline on the inside rim. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I haven't seen them climb glass though. I've found them in moist substrate after tarantulas refuse them. They didn't make proper burrows like a naked mole rat would though. They're strangely unpopular, or they were before I stopped using them. Even T stigmurus avoid them. Now I want to try them out again. Again, I really appreciate you expertise.

Hi. I bought a whole bunch of these as a colony of B lateralis on roachforum a while ago. (Un)fortunately I can't recall who the seller was. They do none of the nice things lateralises do. It's almost like they're repellent to my animals. Literally nothing wants them. Contrary to what I've read about red runners, mine climb acrylic enlosures, burrow, escape, all that annoying stuff. I guess they didn't read the roach manual. The colony thrives from weeks of neglect too, which I guess is a good thing under their circumstances. Not fond. SoCal Invert Club has been very helpful. They're pretty sure it's a pest species. Which one though we aren't sure. The "W" shape on the thorax is weird and should be a useful signifier. (Apologies on pic quality. Had to crop it.) Any info is really appreciated.