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Some people have bred them on coco fiber no problem, others prefer a more organic substrate mix for them. L.verrucosa in general seem to be the least picky Lucihormetica species, so you could probably get away with using whatever.

Still no babies from them, but my females are all quite gravid. This particular strain is apparently known for taking FOREVER to gestate, so IDK when I'll see babies lol, guess I just gotta be patient.

Welcome to the forum!

That's interesting! Do you know what happened to that stock, and why they died out? (or if they were crossed to the existing hobby stock?).

She's looking nice! 😁 And sweet, glad it worked for ya!

Did FL H.tenebricosa used to be in culture?

Awesome find! 😁 They look quite pretty compared to the usual hobby stock of H.tenebricosa.

They're actually quite different from dubias in morphology and size.

@Peter Clausen@Allpet Roaches perhaps this can be made a sticky post for the Cockroach Photo Gallery area, so newcomers know how to post photos here? Seems to be a hurdle for a lot of people more unfamiliar with forums and the way they work compared to social media. Just a thought, feel free to disregard.

Here's an old post I made back in the day on how to post photos on this forum... It's even easier now with the forum's new format though, all you need to do is take the image address/url and paste it directly into your comment/post, and it'll automatically convert it into an image. https://www.roachforum.com/topic/6242-how-to-upload-photos/#comment-35186

I'd love a Princisia that big... 😂

I frequently have bug related dreams... My favorites are ones where I go visit a popular vendor's site, like Bugsincyberspace or Roachcrossing, and see they've added a BUNCH of new roaches I never knew existed (and that DON'T exist lol), let alone knew were present in culture. 😂 Then I wake up and am disappointed those species aren't real or in the hobby.

You could have had a single MALE domino get into your ? colony, breed with some females, and then die pretty quickly afterwards (males are shorter lived than females, and in a large healthy colony it could have easily evaded detection IMO). That sounds like the most plausible option to me, especially since isolating a specific morph of ?s would have likely taken a lot more effort than that, whereas some roach hybrids have more vigor than their pure bred counterparts and could easily outcompete their pure bred parent stocks in the same container (not to mention, interbreed with them and make all the individuals in there hybrids after a generation or two). So, IMO, it sounds like you're got a hybrid culture, which you should isolate and perhaps destroy, or at the VERY LEAST, label correctly as T.petiveriana X T.olegrandjeani. You could also try purposely making hybrids in another bin, and compare them to these "flagged" individuals of yours, just to confirm that they are in fact hybrids. But I'd definitely hold off on selling any more from that colony, short term profit isn't worth potentially causing properly labeled, pure stock Therea spp. to become scarce, like we're seeing with other roach genera in the hobby... Mislabeled hybrids are quite simply, a cancer in this hobby.

Inbreeding is not a concern with roaches, unless you purposely are keeping horribly deformed individuals in your gene pools and allowing them to breed with healthy ones (though most genetic deformities, rare as they are, are fatal, and kill the roaches before they can breed and spread those bad genes anyways). Most of the roaches in the hobby are only established in culture from a handful of individuals, and thus are inbred as heck, with no issues whatsoever. Some decades old stocks were started with literally single gravid females or pairs, and are still going strong.

Some types of coloration could potentially be diet related, but certainly not the proven breeding Amber and Gold strains floating around from reliable sellers. Those look the same for everyone who keeps them, and they all feed different things, so obviously, not diet related. Clearly genetic and line bred traits, considering the people isolated them, have normal dubias too, and feed them all the same.

Yes, this is definitely the case with davidi, and I now know all hissers enjoy very high ventilation. I will say though, in terms of humidity, Princisia in particular seems to like it more humid than most other hissers. I keep them on a 50/50 humidity gradient with good success, if they're kept too dry I've noticed a high mortality rate in smaller nymphs.

I've not, no, I failed to give my pair adequate ventilation for breeding. 😕 But I've got friends here in the US who have healthy cultures of davidi.

I wish I still bred them lol, unfortunately their price hasn't fallen, and in fact may actually have risen here in the US over the past couple years, I haven't been able to get another group of them.

Sorry to hear that your cultures went through a rough phase, but I hope they'll all bounce back! I REALLY want Elliptorhina coquereliana one day, I hope yours breed this time!

Nice, glad to hear it! 😁 Also, if you can post pictures somewhere else online, like a blog (which you can easily set up for free just as a photo dump) or some other forum, you can just copy the image's url and paste it in your posts/threads here on the forum instead (like I do). Which also means the pictures you share will be higher resolution too.

Still no babies, but my females are all SUPER gravid looking, so plump. Here are some kind of crappy phone pictures I took of a couple adults recently:

I've had this happen once or twice. While it's dangerous, I think even kept alone they can sometimes flip themselves over, probably just from attempting to climb out of their setup or something.

These look very cool, hope this is a morph that can be proven out! Keep us posted!

Deropeltis sp. male, not gonna be easy to ID to species without specimen examination by a taxonomist. Definitely not a pest species, they tend to stay outside.

Sounds like phorid flis yeah, which will occasionally attack sickly, live roaches, in addition to mainly feeding on already dead ones. Getting rid of dead roach bodies as soon as you find them, as well as removing excess frass and ensuring there's not a ton of leftover food will help reduce or eliminate phorids from your enclosure.