Allpet Roaches

I haven't seen those in 20 years

That would be cool if you could print the long spiral cavern they live in but of course you'd need a lot of plastic.

Some foods will get them to drop babies like crazy, depends on the species. Pumpkin works for a few.

I put plastic deli lids in the cage so they can hide under it and be able to turn themselves around. I don't have problems with them getting stuck on their backs except the uncommon adult.

I have kept half a dozen sphaerotheriid species over thirty years and some you can get a few years out of. I don't think there is some special trick that nobody has figured out yet but it is possible.

Good luck

Mancae are usually at least 1/2 mm long, mites, even adults, are much smaller

Those are really nice.

The only thing with this species is it seems to change colors according to the background so getting something consistent has been a challenge I imagine.

Yeagh, they're common almost everywhere in temperate climates across the globe. Probably a lot more common in North America since there are hardly any competing species.

I'll admit I never tried super hard but anyone pretending to have a long-term culture of that species also has a bunch of spaerotheriids they're breeding.

There is variation naturally in the horn structure and color so any little difference does not mean a stock is mixed. However, if you compare a pure and mixed stock the differences are apparent.

I get a little bag of dried fish at the Asian grocery store downtown for a few bucks that lasts forevery.

Actually I don't, mine came from captive born, one of the oldest posts on this forum talks about the specific F1 babies. I always figured all the other imports came from European imports of wild adults through the Australian insect farm, but my imaginings are PURE SPECULATION.

That deformity doesn't look dangerous but it might not heal perfectly after many molts.

It's the same bacteria that can show up as pink slime in your sink or toilet.

Do you have a picture of the deformity? I am curious how much they were.

Like these expansus?

Maybe five years ago the biggest male I'd ever seen matured and I figured that was top for the species but then last year a really big one came out, just like the size variability in oblongonota.

Because Blaberus just do not get that big. People make mistakes all the time in measurement, picture of the hand is hilarious though.

Congrats. One thing about rhinos is the males (and females) can be very different in size between individuals of the same sibling group. This only matters because most people don't really have any idea how big this species truly can get until they've kept quite a few. Like hissers, only a fraction are ever super giants.

They can survive dryness that would kill some other species, but they live underground where they are never dry and I have killed a baby here and there by letting it get too dry. When you say sprayed in one corner I get the feeling it died from dehydration. The bigger they are the less likely dryness kills them.

It is unlikely you have anything that hits 8 cm in that group (unless you mean wingspan and not length from front of pronotum to the end of the tegmina). Please verify size claim with picture with vernier calipers or at least a ruler.

I would guess no.

That's crazy, mine blew up and then died out. Even when there were uncountable numbers never saw them anywhere else.