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TiercelR

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  1. Hi vfox, thanks for your reply. Good point about the fish pellets, this week i will purchase fish food pellets for to add it on the mix. Actually i am useing a homemade mix of vegetal dog food pellets, chicken mash for egg layers, and rabbit pellets, plus fruit and vegetables as water source. But the addition of the fish food pellets will be very positive in the mix, and maybe cat food pellets too. I had haved troubles with the fruits and vegetables as water source due to the mold problems that these brings inside of the enclosures, and now i am considereing the lonely use of cristal water instead. Hope that this change will work well, but nothing better than to hear before the opinions of as much roach keepers as possible on this diets. I had readed that this diets works well on feeder crickets but on feeder roaches could be needed more information available. Thanks, regards.
  2. Hi vfox, thanks for your reply. What affordable dry food may you suggest for to be added that can have enough vitamins ?? thanks, regards. Hi macbrush, thanks for your reply. In your experience, what could go wrong with the use of water crystals in the management ?? and, in your experience the water crystals could get more dirty in less time than the fruits ?? thanks, regards.
  3. Hi, for the feeder roaches: a diet without any greens / fruits at all year-round do keep them prolific enough ?? This but with water-crystals as their lonely water source ?? and never again no more carrots nor romain lettuces nor apples, etc ?? This schedule may reduce a lot the time employed in the management of the enclosures because the risk of molded nutriments could be reduced as near as zero. The greens and fruits are natural nutrients, but if the roaches do eats lonely on a homemade "WHOLE-DRY´s roach-chow-diet" (placed on trays) combined with water-crystals during all their life, and without any misting of water nor none substrate (made of food or soil). This may do still keeping your feeder-roaches colonies being prolific enough year-round ?? Thanks in advance for your comments, regards.
  4. Hi vfox, thanks for your reply, first time i hear about this another version, and sounds very problable too Must be very interesting to see all those small nymphs running for everywhere inside of the bin with these little pairs of white eyes !! Hi Ralph, this third version is a good one !!
  5. Hi vfox, thanks for your reply, very good info / advice in it ! I´m living in mexico city, but here are very similar places as you described for to looking for. You have very good fortune for to have a nearest zoo that breed healthy Periplaneta for to obtain there healthy roaches. Another question here, the nymphs of the white eye strain of Periplaneta have their white eyes since they born ?? or the white eyes are developmented while the growing of the nymphs ?? I did readed in a book that the white eye strain of Periplaneta do not exist in the wild, because it was obtained in captivity by the radiation placed on captive Periplaneta roaches. Thanks, regards.
  6. Hi vfox, many thanks for the answer. Did you taked out appart the ooths or the nymphs from their wild caught parents for to avoid the chance of any contagious of parasites or germens from their own parents ?? I don´t remember now from where i has readed this method on to do it so with the purpose of to obtain the most possible "clean" nymphs since the first captive breed generation of nymphs started from the wild caught roaches. But i don´t now really how so efective can be the application of this method. Thanks, regards.
  7. Hi vfox, your Periplaneta roaches do produce often its deffensive pungent smell when their food is renewed or when their bins need to be cleaned or when they are pick up with the hands for some reason ?? or rarely do it ?? I am interesting in to know that because i want to start a small colony of P. americana. Thanks, regards.
  8. Hi, many thanks to all you for your commentaries ! Its very interesting to hear that many more species do particular noises. I do not knowed that already. I have seen the loabster roaches doing their stridulation movements with their wings while a male want to impress a female, or while two males are fighting. But if you pick up an adult in your hands and you keep their wings holded with a good grip, and the roach is turned with its legs upside, so is when the hissing behaviour is showed while their wings can´t move. This sound appear to be doed by the pass of air much more than for the vibration of their wings (stridulation). Thanks, regards.
  9. Hi, anyone had noted this hissing behaviour in the lobster roaches when they are pick with the hands ?? The mature lobster roaches do it as same as the madagascan ones, but the hissing of the lobster roaches is done in a low volume range in comparission to their african cousins, maybe as a self defense method against their predators. Thanks.
  10. Thank you bfox !! i will do it the "hot" species of roaches are just the taboo of the roach hooby, just as the venom species of snakes and so this kind of roaches are as "dangerous" as these snakes but in the risk of to become the location "crazyment infested" thanks, regards !!
  11. Hi bigtoach, thanks for your commentaries !! i will take good advice from them. I will test the bin showed in the next link: http://www.sterilite.com/SelectProduct.html?id=683&ProductCategory=0&section=0 There are better options of bins as is the # 1932 bin, which was recommended in another post, but it was unavailable today here in the local marts. Thanks, regards !!
  12. Hi vfox, thanks for your commentaries. I will take advice about you said on to add extra rubber seal on the border of the bins. The # 1932 bin of the link you has added is a perfect bin !! Just today i has been looked (in many local marts) for the # 1932 but unfortunatelly none of they had have it available today. But fortunatelly today i had founded a 2nd alternative, but it isn´t as good as the bin that you has recommended. So, today i did the purchase of this 2nd alternative, and it was the # 1763 that is just the same showed in this link: http://www.sterilite.com/SelectProduct.html?id=683&ProductCategory=0&section=0 This is the # 1763 and i has purchased today 8 of this bins for my lobster roaches and for my B. lateralis roaches. This kind of bin is only a little bit more larger than the # 1932 , but this bin lacks of the great adfvantages that have the # 1932 , but i will add on them an extra rubber --maybe a thin layer of foamy-- just on their borders, and also to add extra vaseline on this foamy. Also i will try with this # 1763 with the hot species of roaches that i am considering to obtain them from the "wild" surrounds of the city. Thanks, regards !!
  13. Hi Alex, thanks for your commentaries, with your pictures i can see that useing small bins can be a bit more easy to control the hot species of roaches keeped. Thanks, regards.
  14. Hi, what makes the breeder feeder roaches to be more prolificals with the next options ?? Small or big bin enclosures ?? Small or big colonies living inside of each bin -- without overcrow them of course -- ?? If your goal is to obtain more nymphs and to have the more prolific breeders, what is better to choose from the above options ?? thanks in advance for your commentaries !!
  15. Hi Alex, many thanks for the images !! I used to believe that the cages for the hot species of roaches as these 2 species could require cages with much more protocols of security in them than the used for the rest of the roaches species, for this reason i am asking about particular cages for this 2 hot species. But i am seeing that the protocols of security still being the same as for the rest of the roach cages with none particular extra protocol in their structures. Or are there particular extra protocols in the structure of the cages for the hot species of roaches that must be indeed beyond of the customary roach cages used -- appart of the double layer of screens in the vent openings ?? And, your starter culture was wild taken or was originated from a previous captive breed culture ?? Many thanks !!
  16. Hi, when you know that you need to do adjustments of the quantities of individuals inside of the breeder cages ?? I mean, how to know when you need to add more males or females ?? As example, you start hypothetically wit a radio of 5:1 of females:males, and so you start with around of 500 females and 100 males within the same bin. But a few months after happened that many of the individuals had died inside the bin, and also has been eated by their own neighbours there. So you cannot know how much males or females had died because many of their corpses actually disappeared. But anyway you are quite unable of to know how much breeder females or males were lost during all these few months because you cannot counting them each time you open this breeder bin. And so, your initial radio of 5:1 has becomed actually disbalanced, and also the breeding potential of this bin actually is under its minimum. But worst, in the real numbers actually you don´t know how much males or females you must add to the bin for to restore its right balance inside. How must be fixed this issue ?? thanks in advance for your commentaries !!
  17. Hi, i had readed that in Europe they use to name it as Shelfordella Tartara, but in the rest of the worldwide is used to name it as Blatta lateralis. You said well as with the example of the tarantulas, however in Europe apparently this roach is rarely named as Blatta lateralis. Thats a very curious thing and interesting to have a very popular roach having at a same time two taxonomic names .
  18. I´ve seem them fly many many times !! i am talking about the wild ones within the cities and towns in places where the nights have a hot climate as is along the coast in tropical places. Maybe it could be a factor for this behaviour. Maybe in cities with cold nights it could be a rare sight. I´ve seem the flying around of the street lights and also entering while they are flying across of open windows and open doors of homes and buildings. This species really have a very powerful flight and its wings moves at a high speed. They are very able of to do sharp angular turns at fast moving while on the wing. Really it is a very interesting sight !!
  19. Hi, please can you share pictures of enclosures for both Periplaneta & German roaches ?? Pictures of both big & small enclosures please !! Many thanks in advance !!
  20. Hi, are they quite different species?? if yes, sorry by my own ignorance some info i had readed (possibly not being as exactly as i had believed it before -- but i can´t remember now the authors) says that both names means eactly just the same species, but i may be wrong because i did believed that info please can you tell me better info abouth this both names ?? ... or just Shelfordella Tartara is a perished name for the same species ?? thanks !!
  21. Hi Matt, please can you share a few pictures of this cages for to see the system in their whole ?? yes i can understand what you mean exactly, but the pictures do explain almost all at once !! Or anyone have just this system for the collection of the nymphs and please can share us a few pictures of it ?? many thanks in advance !
  22. Hi makoygaara, thanks !! Yes ! i mean Shelfordella Tartara or Blatta lateralis ! Hi Alex, thanks !! i had not taken yet pictures of the "wild" roaches of the city, but i will proudly !!
  23. Hi all, greetings from mexico city. I was the third roach-fan saying "hi" here in the forum when it had just a very very few hours living online ! But i was out this forum since a long time untill now, but i had started a fresh new account here because i had lost my old e-mail and my old password here among it. I don´t know if my old friend Peter Clausen still remember me ! I had haved small colonies of Hissers and Lobsters, and very soon i will start my first colony of S. lateralis, so i am very motivated because i will own my very first red-runners ! Also actually i have a few individuals of 3 different species of stick-insects, these 3 different species are originated from Asia. Thanks, regards, Roberto.
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