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Aaaand while I was typing and uploading the other photo, she squeezed herself out of her old skin completely. Here she is, in all of her white glory. If I find her again when she's colored in, I'll post another pic Edit: Looking at the shed skin, I think this is actually a male - Oh lord

Hey guys As I woke up one hour ago today, I saw something amazing! One of my older A. tesselata nymphs was in the process of doing its final molt! Ahe (I think...) is still in the old skin with part of her abdomen.

Ok, if they generally do that I feel relieved. Ah well, I am happy she got rid of the thing instead of carrying it around as a potential health risk If she's concluded the circumstances as good for an ootheca once, I am sure she'll do it again

Thank you for your reply, stanislas I, too, have several lookout places. The old male uses them a lot, I hadn't seen the new male use them yet. The younger male does indeed keep a low profile. Before last night, it remained hidden in the substrate at most times. I think they clashed when the younger male went to eat, since they were right in the food bowl when I separated them... Maybe I'll try to reunite the group later again... I'll keep you updated

Update: She did indeed end up aborting the faulty ootheca, I found it half eaten in their enclosure today. The female's behind was closed as well. Do cockroaches generally eat their oothecas, or only if there's not enough protein available otherwise?

Thanks for your suggestion After they woke me up with their fighting, I put the newer male into another, smaller box to prevent any bigger injuries. There are 5 adult females as of right now (more to mature soon). Should I leave him on his own in the other box? I do know roaches like company - Pia

Good evening! Today what I was dreading actually happened - I woke up to my two adult males (one being my original male and the other being rather freshly molted) fighting with each other. I know they do fight on occasion but it still looked so brutal! Since the new male seemed kinda shy and was burrying itself a lot, they never had that much contact with each other. My question is if they can actually seriously hurt each other? If they'd go for the legs that'd suck... is it smarter to keep them in seperate groups/enclosures? Thanks in advance! - Pia (P.s. I wasn't sure where to put this topic. But since this is a courtship-related question I posted in the breeding section)

My male Archimandrita will hiss, too, when he needs me to back off. I think I once heard ond of my females do it as well, but I might have mistaken it with wing noises.

I got lucky and the female in question was out and about (also surprisingly chill). As soon as I set her back down she was immediately gone into the substrate I managed to snap some pics of her behind that are hopefully useful to you; please tell me if you need better photos (it's after 2 am and the lights of my room are kinda bad for taking important photos)

I can surely try... she always likes to burry herself in the substrate (she is also very quick to do so). I'll see what I can do!

As of right now, it has actually been some time (I registered rather soon after noticing, but the validation of the account took some time) I was/am scared to do anything since I don't want to accidentally tear anything out of her. But at the same time I don't want her to be at a potential health risk. I am just glad the other females seem to know what they're doing...

Hello you guys My name's Pia and I am 23 years old. I live in Germany, where I study Biology and, mostly by coincidence, started to keep Archimandrita tesselata (Giant Peppered Roach) in May. I came here and made an account since the number of german forums for cockroaches is rather limited. I am glad to be here and grateful for your help in advance. - Pia

Good evening I have a question regarding oothecas of Archimandrita tesselata. One of my younger adult females did the whole process of pushing her (first ever) ootheca out of her body to retract it again. But the thing is, about 1 centimetre of the ootheca is still sticking out of her. Is that a health risk and can the rest of the ootheca still be properly incubated by the female? Or should I relieve her of the thing (she seems to be doing fine, as far as I can tell - I am rather new to keeping cockroaches though...). Thank you in advance - Pia