Blattodea313

Very pretty and love the shiny appearance. I've always wanted another tarantula but I find cockroaches a lot easier to feed

I kept one in a little critter keeper when I was younger. It did just fine for about 2-3 months, then I let it go (it was still alive). I don't think they have much of a glass/plastic climbing ability. They stay underground most of the time.

I got them from the seller labeled as G. portentosa. However, I questioned wether they were pure when all kinds of different colors and horn sizes/body shapes popped up in the colony's different generations. I have seen the black morph and a few individuals that had the coloring of G. oblongonota. I was very excited when I found this particular individual in my colony.

What species of hisser is this? https://www.dropbox.com/sc/7cr7eftvca64iag/AAA8NstVvSibL_nolaXySQ9Na

I don't think that a cockroach could get impacted on sand. Even if you took the peeling off a banana and laid it in sand to were it got sand all over it, the roaches would just eat a few grains of sand to get to the inside of the banana, which isn't covered in sand. Or, the cockroaches would just ignore the banana all together because they don't want to eat the sand. It would take a lot of time and patience to get a cockroach impacted on sand. It wouldn't be worth it in my opinion. You also might be able to get the roach to eat the sand if you spray them then throw sand all over them. When the roach cleaned itself, it would eat the sand. That method is also used for getting sick roaches to eat honey, or killing roaches (they clean pesticide off of them self, which kills them.

Dead leaf mantis?

Looks cool. Maybe you should just keep moss in it.

Hemiptera

Do you have any trouble keeping the earth stars red? Mine always turn green unless I have natural light shining on them.

Have you had any problems with overcrowding? I would keep my hissers unseparated but I'm scared that the enclosure would get too overcrowded.

Hissers usually won't eat plants unless they are underfed. Of course the amount of hissers also has some effect on this. I would recommend species from the genera Sansevieria, Peperomia, Pothos, and Draceana. Spider plants might do fine too, but I have not tried them yet. I would avoid plants like Ficus pumila, which can be easily smashed by the hissers weight. Basically any large, tough, and fast growing plant.

Wow, I like this one a lot better.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost certain that females are pregnant for life.

Yeah, I'm not seeing the lobster roach either. All I saw was an adult male hisser dead center of the photograph.

I don't see where it says G. laevigata anywhere on the website. You could always contact the company to see if it is a hybrid or not.

I've never had a problem with phorid flies but I read on roachcrossing.com that carrion beetles will clean up dead roaches.

Thanks for the explanations . My teacher wasn't even here today, so he didn't go over the answers MrCrackerpants - I would say that natural selection would have made the genes. Right?

Explain please.

Here is the link to the released form of the test: http://www.ncpublics...rms/g8scipp.pdf I had one of the choices wrong. The food should have been age instead.

Ok, so on a test I had to take there was a question that asked what caused an arctic fox to turn white/brown with the different seasons. The answer choices were the following: A. food B. habitat C. gene D. sunlight I said that it was B because I thought the habitat was what caused the fox to develop the gene for changing fur. However, the correct answer was C, genes. Is this right?

I've never had any luck with getting my hissers to eat a powdery food. That might just be mine though. I feed mine uncrushed cat food.

I would change the bedding to either bark or a coco fibre substrate. I have problems with this (especially the nymphs) when the humidity gets too low. Have you done anything new in the last six months? Also, I would feed them fresh fruits and vegetables three times a week.

I don't think the whipspiders would enjoy the bright light. I thought about having a colony of the Panchlora sp. "giant" with an Avicularia sp.

I think the other species you are thinking of is G. capucina. I doubt that they could hybridize. Even if it were possible, G. capucina, from what i've heard, is extremely hard to breed. Probably even more hard to breed it with another species.

G. lurida do not have a pink form.