Hisserdude

Eyyy, a fellow Idahoan. 😄 Personally some of my favorites are pure bred hisser lines, so much cooler looking than the typical mutts available on the market nowadays.

Got a pair of the OG of pure portentosa stocks! Hopefully they'll do well for me, love their darker, more minimalistic coloration and patterning, markedly different from that of the "Masoala" strain I have. Male "Cleveland": Female "Cleveland": Major male "Cleveland" (Top) VS Major male "Masoala" (Bottom):

My males have matured, and based on the coloration and pronotum morphology, they do appear to be pure Princisia. Hopefully they'll breed well for me!

Finally, the roach that is @Peter Clausen's avatar has entered culture, and they're actually fairly easy too (basically Eucorydia type care). Got some CB nymphs from Roachcrossing, looking forward to watching them grow.

Yup, that's another Ectobius nymph.

Yeah with age their colors fade.

Yeah they probably just like hiding under the moss, or are seeking more moisture. The Panesthia are pretty hardy yeah, they're slow growers that take around 8 months to mature, and about 6 months to gestate their broods, despite this I went from 10 to like 100+ in only a couple years.

They're some of my favorite roaches to keep. 😄

Beautiful, prolific little Pseudophyllodromid species naturalized in southern FL. Underrated in culture IMO. Adult: Nymph:

These are doing well for me, and have reproduced a couple times thus far. Here are some pics of a young, still fully winged adult:

New species for the hobby, courtesy of Roachcrossing. Mine have already bred for me, really looking forward to getting a large colony established! 😁 Here are some pics of an adult pair:

Got some better comparison shots between adult females of Perisphaerus punctatus and Perisphaerus pygmaeus:

Already about halfway grown!

Some more pictures of these awfully underrated roaches...

Got some pics of adults from my next generation:

More male pics for the heck of it:

My colony has exploded, these are absolutely thriving for me. Got some new pics of them recently as well:

I've had some major males pop in the culture, and not only are they huge, but their coloration is stunning too. 😍 Here's a major vs a minor male, both are adults, just goes to show the size variety that can occur among adult hissers in the same colony:

Got an adult male already, as well as a subadult female. 😍 Adult male: Subadult female:

Got adult pairs already, and the females are really pumping ooths out!

Got some pics of my colony feeding recently: A very underrated species in the hobby IMO, the nymphs are so ornately patterned. 😍

Finally, I got my hands on a breeding group of Vietnamese green P.magnifica, thanks to @Shinylarvitar97! 😁 Looking forward to hopefully breeding these and establishing a colony of them!

Probably not, as long as they CAN move and aren't like, dead in the corner. 😅 Pine has to be very well rotten (dark brown and crumbly) in order to be edible for most roaches. Hardwood trees tend to make better food. There are several Panesthiinae genera in culture, including Ancaudellia, Panesthia, and Salganea spp.. Here's some of my Panesthia angustipennis cognata for an example:

Most hardwood trees work fine, and even very well rotted pine is useable. In general try to avoid trees with aromatic smelling wood, as these contain oils and resins that may be harmful to insects.

Rhino roaches will nibble on rotten wood, hissers seldom touch it. I keep several species in the subfamily Panesthiinae, which require a substrate entirely composed of rotten wood, which makes up the bulk of their diet. So it definitely has it's uses in Blatticulture.