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That's interesting. I may be asking for too many nitpicking details, but what benefits do you see from using all leaf litter?

Liking the progress. I was thinking of using coir matting for something similar, might have to make it stand up too!

Congrats! I'll keep an eye on your progress. I had these years ago, they popped out little 'uns without any special attention on my part. I got another batch a couple of years ago, pampered them, and it seemed I could barely encourage them to eat, let alone breed. Thinking of trying again, but taking lots of notes... The last lot of nymphs I had, the males all matured quicker, so I separated out the females and kept them warmer to speed things up. The last one, the smallest nymph, I thought would take another couple of moults to mature. Took one, and came out maybe two thirds the size of the other adults!

Definitely! 10l to 4l would be a bit of a downgrade. The narrowness is also a pain to clean out. The closest I've come to a bioactive setup is dumping a lot of Stratiolaelaps mites in there, because the duesta bodies all the way at the bottom proved a hit with grain mites. (Also wondering if I should throw some isopods or dermestids in there to combat the cause, not the symptom) Also, dead jealous of your magnifica. I've no idea what to suggest for glass vivaria, I'm still going with plastic boxes. To pass it along, I'd say see some of @Martin 's enclosures. Check out his roach entries here: https://www.thewildmartin.com/

They were merchandise from some home decor ogling show. Let me search for a bit... ... here we go: https://www.containerstore.com/s/the-home-edit-cereal-canister/d?q=the+home+edit+cereal+canister&productId=11012913&utm_source=Linkshare&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=Linkshare_Affiliate&cid=af:gen&ranMID=37353&ranEAID=*2nGiS3mv0Y&ranSiteID=.2nGiS3mv0Y-V7x3VhyiZrOEqSUcweJx4g

Job's a good 'un. 🙂 That won't start to peel anytime soon.

I'd guess there's something about the pet store poisoning them, whether biological or chemical, but I don't have the experience to say for definite. Either way, I'd consider casting my eye towards alternative purveyors of blattodeans.

Never saw a gizmo like that. So it basically melted the plastic around the mesh?

Nice collection! Gyna lurida yellow is on my 'someday' list. (Yellow roaches 😉) Haven't had any Gyna or Therea species yet so I'm no help. My orange heads are definitely fussy eaters. They'll eat fruit and veg (especially apples, oranges, grapes) but it's kind of pot luck what they'll take at any one time. One day they snub melon and parsnip, a few weeks later they bolt it down like it's going out of fashion. I've offered them banana skins but they go ignored, while my red heads will strip them. The rough factors on how much they like something seem to be: 1) water content (fruit and veg are their main source of water) 2) sugar content 3) how much it costs me 🤨 Protein food has a heirarchy. Soft pond pellets win over hard dog nuggets. Grassy rabbit nuggets are right out. It's like they say "why is he putting these balls of substrate in our dish?"

That sounds like a quick turnaround. As soon as I got my Archimandrita tesselata nymphs last year, I noticed some were more orange-tinted than others. It might take longer than eight months to make anything of it, though.

Looks good! I'm fond of yellow myself. How long have you been separating them?

I've known people - self included - who knew the phrase 'looking a gift horse in the mouth', knew what it meant, but had no idea why you'd look in a horse's mouth! I noticed the second female had a very broken up pronotum marking in the photos, though she was still slightly teneral and I think it's all filled in now. Though she was further along than #3, who had a solid marking straight off. To be honest I've tried not to disturb them too much, but I think I might have to line them all up and see just how distinguishing their marks are.

@Silverback You can attach the pictures directly to your post, as long as each picture, and the overall total of multiple pictures, is less than 300kb/0.3mb. In which case the pictures are hosted on the forum's server space. You should see an 'add files' option below the text space when you type out a post. Alternatively, upload your photos to a photo- or file-hosting service, and embed image links in your post. (I use flickr. Although here, I have to confess my own ignorance of alternatives. I used to use imageshack when it was free. I don't know if a cloud service like google drive or dropbox would work too.) You should be able to get an address or url from that, looking something like: https://www.file-name-or-numbers.jpg Copy that address (you may need to highlight and right click) Look to the bottom right of your post options here on the Roach Forum, where it says 'other media'. To the right of 'add files'. Click that, then click 'insert image from URL' The selected photo should show up in your post. Place the cursor before inserting the URL, if you want the photo to be positioned at a certain point of your post. Looking forward to see your results!

Nope! One moult. I wasn't expecting that so soon. Although as a small nymph she ended up a fairly small adult - only 55mm from pronotum to wingtips. Still, mouths, gift horses and all that.

> Polyzosteria mitchelli > Australia Yes, that'd do nicely.