Cariblatta lutea

I was lucky enough to see hundreds of these on a hike. Interestingly, only 6 of the ones I saw were females.

I keep it moist. Never kept it dry before. Also, not all wood seems to work (probably has something to do with the level of decay) but the sawdust from wood pellet has worked for me.

I keep mine on sawdust from wood pellets (tractor supply's wood pellet seems to work the best). You just mix it with potting soil (20 potting soil to 80 sawdust) and let it age for about a week. I keep mine on moist side. Interestingly they only seem to breed in spring time. I've had them for 3 years now and I've only see newborns pop up when the spring warmth hits.

Hmmm....sounds like they are a lot more pain in the butt to keep than I anticipated. Quite glad I got rid of them now cause I'm using that space for Porcellio expansus, which are doing much better.

Mine had a good mix of male and female. Ones that died were mostly small and medium sized juveniles. I actually speculated that to be a problem and removed all the big males and left only one small male one time and that still didn't stop the deaths so I stopped removing males at that point.

I love these guys but I can't seem to keep them happy for some reason. They'd breed and grow, but I see high cannibalism rate and I occasionally find specimens that seem to have died from stress. I ended up selling away my entire colony because of this

Thank you for the info. Looks like I need to avoid those at all cost!

Can you tell me what isopod species died from algae wafers? I toss some of my algae wafers to Porcellio expansus and magnificus along with few other species but now I'm worried.

Are these gone from the US hobby?

I still have mine. I saw at least 2 dozen nymphs ranging from 2nd instar to 4th so they are doing well

Probably not hungry then. I have an emperor pair that only eats about once in 2~3 weeks and only eat about two adult ivory roaches per meal.

Fingers crossed you get babies!

Indeed Probably my 2nd fav Blaberid I own at this point I heard males live shorter.

They sure do get big! Some the ones I used to keep got to the size of my B. giganteus nymphs!

Did you use his old email or his new email address? He no longer responds to his old email.

Beautiful Blaberid from Panama. Males have glossy black wings while females lack wings.

It looks gorgeous!

Thanks Probably one of the prettiest native species we have here!

Here's a beautiful species from central FL. Their babies hatched yesterday!

Ooh....this might be a true B. parabolicus! I'd love to see these become available in the US

Sure

Yep. They bred for me and now I have tiny pedelings

I won't be offering adults, but I'll likely offer some larvae up for trade if I can get them to breed for another generation

Found this adult roaming on the surface in its enclosure today!

Forgot to mention that I also gave fruits occasionally.