TherealBob Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Hi guys, Several of my roaches seems to have a quite inflated belly and I'm wondering if it's not ootheca-related, so here are some of the pictures, so guys can give me your opinions about that. This is MO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TherealBob Posted September 19, 2016 Author Share Posted September 19, 2016 and this is Pewetka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TherealBob Posted September 19, 2016 Author Share Posted September 19, 2016 Also I plan on making a baby tank (I only have one tank tha is really secure yet) and therefore I think about putting the pregnant ones in this tanks until the baby hatch idk what you guys think about that, the baby tank host my E. Javanica colony and is well heated and full of many hiding spots... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Lemur Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 They look fine to me. If they're mature, and there are males in the enclosure, they are likely gravid, and the inflated look of the abdomen is normal. As far as separating the young, there isn't much point in it, unless you want to have a seperate enclosure to observe them in or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Lemur Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 If you have a secure lid and petroleum jelly smeared around the top 2" or so of the enclosure, you shouldn't have any escapees. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Looks like a normal, gravid hisser female to me, nothing to worry about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TherealBob Posted September 20, 2016 Author Share Posted September 20, 2016 Thanks about the replies guys, I have hard time making all my lids secure so I plan to moves all the newborns into the only fully secure one, also I think this cohabitation might be quite interesting to see in the future and watch how they evolved as a group. For exemple one of my javanicas came with my oblongatas and now even if the two species are separate I can't get an hand on that last javanica wich is perfectly integrated into the oblongata group the adults even like go under them as a cover all the time so I can't really grab it... Anyway not the subject. Is there a noticeable change in the body size just before the hatch ? So I can remove the gravid females as late as possible ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TherealBob Posted October 12, 2016 Author Share Posted October 12, 2016 Hi guys I'm here to give you some updates on this MO finally gave birth to many babies that are going very well (they currently have something like 2weeks and eat like crazy) but I've noticed that her color changed quite a lot afterward even if she has not molted yet.... What do you think ? Does this happen a lot to you ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Glad to hear she had a successful birth! She won't be molting again because she's mature. Once insects mature, they won't molt again (unlike tarantulas and a variety of other arachnids). In terms of the color change though, that's kind of odd. I don't think I've ever paid that much attention to the small colony at the university to see if the females changed color after giving birth. Definitely going to have to keep an eye out for that now...did she get lighter or darker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TherealBob Posted November 11, 2016 Author Share Posted November 11, 2016 She got visibly lighter and quite more like brown while she used to be deep dark with almost like blue reflections and I checked under different lighting and all, it seems that several of my roaches do some weird stuff like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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