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Beautiful scorpions !!

Wow, thats stunning !! there are not ways for to control these risks to the people health

Hi, here is your response to my second question, thanks !!

Hi Ozymandias, and you do know if this thermostat also do accept the plug of the heat cables and if this thermostat also works well with the heat cables ?? thanks, regards.

Hi, a some days ago i had watched on a tv show a small note on the home breeding of crickets for the human consume in China. Some of these ckickets have water crystals in their enclosures as their water source. And then this same crickets are lonely used as human food. This gut loading appear to have risk for the health of the humans who eat these crickets. Or there are not any risk ?? i know that the water crystals are not recommended for the human consume as a direct vector, but how much risk is playing if it is indirectly consumed with the crickets that drink from it and then this same crickets are used as food for the humans ?? Thanks, regards.

Hi froggy, what kind of thermostate will you use with the heat cables ?? thanks, regards.

... and anyone actually keeping the German Roaches ?? i know that is needed to have a bunch of courage for to having them but if yes, please show us their enclusures !! thanks, regards.

Hi froggy, thank you so much in advance !! after you upload this new thread, i vote for to become it a sticky or pinned thread on the forum, due to their practical and useful value. Regards.

Hi, possibly the females are fighting between theyselves ?? i don´t believe that males hurting on the females intentionallyment. Thanks.

Thanks !!

Hi Ozymandias, this thermostat looks good, but do you know if it is compatible with the flex-watt or heat cables ?? it is mentioning about compatibility with the heat-mats, but the advice do not mentioning info about their compatibility with the anothers. Thanks !!

Hi vfox, thanks for your reply. My bins are of 27 quart without a substrate, each full of vertical egg crates and the feeder and water trays on the top of the egg crates. The wasted time the males spend on fighting might be much better employed if instead they use this wasted time for to fertilize in a hurry on the solitary females that were leaved alone Thanks, regards.

Hi vfox, thanks for the info, i can see that the flexwatt thing may don´t work in your bins doe the most of them have a substrate. Thanks, regards.

Hi froggy, thanks for your reply. Thank you so much in advance !! this last tip you said also is very useful !! regards.

Hi vfox, great videos, thanks for share them !! how do you warm your roach bins that appear in your videos ?? your bearded dragon viewed in its enclosure is impressive !! thanks, regards.

Hi, i have noted that my lobster roaches spend the most of their time fighting in any place within their bins even in their feeding trays. Is that a normal behaviour in any lobster roach bin ?? my bins really are not overpopulated, they have lots of empty spaces for to enjoy there, and plenty of food and water for all, so do not appear to be a problem of territoriality fights. Maybe the bins have an excess of males each bin, but i dont know it for sure because its a some difficult to ID the gender of the lobster roaches, and the time required for to separate males from females of the lobster roaches could be too much doe to their difficult visual dimorfism between their genders. So, the lobster roaches tends to fight too much as their normal behaviour or this is a very particular case ?? This may have influence in their numbers keeped inside of each bin ?? i have around of 250 adults inside of each bin with plenty of empty hides for all. I has noted that while my B lateralis do fight occasionally, even they are much less prone to fight, and they are much more sociables and tolerant with its relatives than the way that do the much less sociables lobster roaches. So i am able of to keep around of 500 --the double of quantity-- of the B lateralis within of the same size of bins and with much less problems of fights than the haved with the lobster roaches. And even with the 500 B lateralis the bins still having plenty of free space for to support very well the double of the quantity of roaches -- for to say 1000 of them--, and the same apply with the space available for the lobster roaches within of the same size of bins. Despite of the fights, i still being able of to raise their numbers from 250 to 500 lobster roaches inside of each bin or i must keep their very low numbers of 250 despite of a lot of the waste space within of their bins ?? Thanks, regards.

Hi froggy, thanks for your reply. It sounds as an excellent idea, thank you for share it. If you try it please be sure of to take pictures of the DIY steps by means you can upload the pictures in the forum. I understand the idea and it sounds really very good. Thanks, regards.

Hi vfox, do you believe that this predatory behaviour of the white eye strain nymphs could be particular and isolated of this variation of the P americana as a survival behaviour of their blind eyes nature ?? or this predatory behaviour of the nymphs could be also generalized on the whole P americana as a species ?? thanks, regards.

Hi likebugs, thanks for your reply. Yes, also i did readed this article there ! the info about the captive breeding of lubber grasshoppers is rare to find even online The most nearest info i´ve readed is about the captive breeding of the migratory locusts, i do believe that a lot of the protocol could be very similar for to do it with the lubber grasshoppers, but nothing better that to hear info from people with previous experience breeding them. Very good to hear you had haved a some of experience keeping grasshoppers in captivity. Did you obtained nymphs from your starter culture ?? thanks, regards. Hi Orin, thanks for your reply. I will send you a pm looking for info for purchase it. Thanks, regards.

Hi, anyone rearing in captivity the Horse Lubber Grasshoppers ?? Anyone knows if their life cycle can be shortered at their maximum under of captive conditions, for so to rearing them as successfullyment as can be doed it with the captive species of the Migratory Locusts ?? The purpose is to having them breeding all the year round with as much clutches of ooths as possible with the nymphs growing in the less short time as possible. Anyone in the forum has tried this ?? please share your experiences with this particular species !! In this moment i don´t have live specimens of them, but outdoors i am able of to collect a few dozens or hundreds of them. Thanks, regards.

Hi vfox, thanks for your reply. I will try with the cork sheets and/or with the cork bark, i can´t wait for try it ! thanks, regards.

Hi vfox, thanks for your reply. If the cork sheets don´t get molded by cause of the humidity, so i must try them, maybe seting them fixed within of small wood frames and then seting them veticallyment within the roach bins, by means that the framed cork sheets do not crush the roaches theyselves. Thanks, regards.

Hi vfox, thanks for your reply. Many very good ideas for to choose ! also i am considering if may work small rectangles or squares made of plastic mosquitoe mesh (as these used for the windows) mounted on small wood frames. Or also to try with a few of these transparent plastic egg crates, but they have the disvantage of to be too much smooth for to get a good grip of the roach legs, but there must be a way for improving this transparent plastic egg crates for make them useful. Thanks, regards. Hi Ozymandias, thanks for your reply. If the cork bark or the cork sheets don´t get molded with the humidity, so i must try on them. Thanks, regards.

Plastic material perches instead of the biodegradable perches. I had founded that the egg cartoons tends to get molded after of only a few of misting sessions even without the use of any substrate in the bottoms of the bins, ending with the need of the whole replacement of all the egg cartoons with new ones. And that is a lot unnecessary of work !! and so actually i has stopped at all any misting session for to avoid at all the possible molding troubles directly derived by this cause. Which options of plastic materials as perches could work better within of the roach bins ?? I had readed that the desert locust cages works well with metal gauze or metal mesh perches, but it could be too heavy for the multiple perches that are required within a lonely roach bin. For this reason the plastic perches could be a much better option than that. Thanks in advance for your comments, regards.

Hi macbrush, thanks for your reply. Good points ! thanks fo share a some cons of the use of water crystals within the roach bins, and how you deal with the fruits when they turns infested by mites. Regards. Hi vfox, thanks for your reply. The egg cartoons itselves don´t get molded within your bins doe to the high humidity ?? i had haved this trouble each time i had doed misting within the roach bins. For this reason i has stopped the misting at all. But i had readed that with the colonies of Panchlora nivea the high humidity levels is a priority (someday i hope to own this beautiful species). Thanks, regards. Hi makoygaara, thanks for your reply. Recently i has added rabbit pellets and the roaches (particullarly the lobsters) likes it so much ! thanks, regards.