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I use Repashy Bug Burger for my dubias that I feed to my leopard geckos. The dubias love it. Their 2nd favorite food is fish flakes. Carrots are a distant 3rd.
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I vote for Peppered Roach - Archimandrita tesselata as being most charismatic.
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I had a colony of about 50 Halloween hissers, and rarely, maybe never, heard a peep out of them.
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Lucihormetica species (care)
Nanchantress replied to NicKtheGreeK's topic in General Blattodea Discussions
Try taping several layers of red cellophane gift wrapping paper over the end of the flashlight. That works ok too.- 18 replies
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Blue Death Feigning Genome Project
Nanchantress replied to Peter Clausen's topic in Other Discussions
This sounds like a cool project. Do you know him? I might donate $20 so I can get the secret to telling males from females - hahaha! (beetles, that is...) Later... Just donated! My very first crowdfunding experience -
Lucihormetica species (care)
Nanchantress replied to NicKtheGreeK's topic in General Blattodea Discussions
Don't you just love their little orange faces? I feed mine lots of dead oak leaves and occasional carrots, cucumber, and squash. Like I said above, they do not each very enthusiastically - but if you spy on them in the middle of the night you might see some activity. I bought a red-bulb flashlight that doesn't disturb them in the dark. Best for spying - haha!- 18 replies
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Freshly molted Giant Peppered with a gel blob, and not hardening?
Nanchantress replied to wodesorel's topic in Health Issues
I don't actually measure the humidity - I just spray it good a couple times a week and adjust the lid opening as needed. -
Lucihormetica species (care)
Nanchantress replied to NicKtheGreeK's topic in General Blattodea Discussions
My substrate is about 2 inches deep and half is completely dry and half is kept moist with regular spraying. I have found roaches hiding under cork pieces in both sides - not sure which they like better.- 18 replies
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Freshly molted Giant Peppered with a gel blob, and not hardening?
Nanchantress replied to wodesorel's topic in Health Issues
Mine have had deformed wings like that when I did not keep the enclosure humid enough before their final molt. I now keep my nymph enclosure quite humid and have had better luck. Once they get their wings, I move them to the adult enclosure which is kept more on the drier side. -
Lucihormetica species (care)
Nanchantress replied to NicKtheGreeK's topic in General Blattodea Discussions
My L.subcincta like plenty of dead oak leaves and coconut fiber substrate to bury themselves in. I keep half the substrate moist and have pieces of cork for them to hide under. They stay hidden most of the time. They are not big eaters and as far as I can tell mainly eat dead leaves. I keep mine at room temp (about 70*F) which is probably why they are slow to reproduce, but over a 2 year period I went from 11 nymphs to about 60 now.- 18 replies
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Lucihormetica subcincta nymph
Nanchantress replied to Nanchantress's topic in Cockroach Photo Gallery
No, the male does not glow because his diet does not include the bioluminescent fungi they would eat in the wild. I feed them dead oak leaves and carrots which, I think, is why the spots are so orange instead of yellow. -
Lucihormetica subcincta nymph
Nanchantress replied to Nanchantress's topic in Cockroach Photo Gallery
Thought I would share pics of what those cute little nymphs turned into. Out of the 11 nymphs I bought from herpetologyfrk in February 2012, only 1 turned out to be male. He has been very busy, however, and I now have easily over 50 offspring ! -
ID Needed - Backyard in Albuquerque
Nanchantress replied to Nanchantress's topic in General Blattodea Discussions
You are both right! Family: Thyreocoridae Species: Cydnoides renormatus. This forum is so awesome. Thank you! So I think it isn't the Ebony Bug then because it looks exactly like the picture of Cydnoides renormatus that I found on the web. Amazing what you can find in the backyard when you stop to look Doesn't seem to be much info on the web about them - at least info that non-entomologist-type-people like me can understand. -
ID Needed - Backyard in Albuquerque
Nanchantress replied to Nanchantress's topic in General Blattodea Discussions
Forcep, thank you!!! I just looked them up on Google and it looks like the common name might be Ebony Bug. Attached is a picture I found on a site that called them a type of Guyana True Bug. I wonder what they are good for? Maybe the little blue tailed lizards around here eat them... Thank you so much for identifying them for me! -
Freshly molted Giant Peppered with a gel blob, and not hardening?
Nanchantress replied to wodesorel's topic in Health Issues
To me it looks like it was bitten by another roach or injured while it was still soft and vulnerable right after molting. And the yellow gooey stuff is maybe leaking fluid from the circulatory system?