 Breeding glow spots |
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| Breeding glow spots |
 Dec 21 2007, 05:53 AM
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 Subadult  Group: Members Posts: 244 Joined: 26-July 07 From: USA Member No.: 19  |
Do these guys lay ooths or do they have live births? I couldn't find this info for some reason.
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Dec 21 2007, 06:28 AM
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 Giant Cockroach Group: Members Posts: 1,113 Joined: 24-July 07 From: USA Member No.: 7 |
QUOTE(Roachsmith @ Dec 21 2007, 05:53 AM)  Do these guys lay ooths or do they have live births? I couldn't find this info for some reason. Retain the ootheca and birth live nymphs. |
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Dec 21 2007, 12:02 PM
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 Giant Cockroach Group: Moderator Posts: 1,005 Joined: 16-July 07 From: USA Member No.: 3 |
Yep, Glowspots are in the subfamily Blaberinae along with Blaberus, Archimandrita, Eublaberus, Hormetica, Parahormetica, Blaptica and a few other genera.
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Dec 21 2007, 04:44 PM
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Subadult Group: Members Posts: 244 Joined: 26-July 07 From: USA Member No.: 19 |
Cool thanks!
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Jan 2 2008, 04:54 PM
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Giant Cockroach Group: Members Posts: 1,113 Joined: 24-July 07 From: USA Member No.: 7 |
QUOTE(Roachsmith @ Dec 21 2007, 04:44 PM) Cool thanks! I am finding that they do better for me if they are more damp than more dry regarding substrate moisture conditions. If they are too dryish for too long the female would abort the ootheca, and not if damp. Now I grow some ivy in thier enclosure to monitor the moisture level....keeping the plant watered one one end of the cage seems to keep the whole thing right. Anyone else have any input or experience with this issue? |
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Jan 15 2008, 12:07 PM
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 Nymph Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 7-January 08 From: Belgium Member No.: 242 |
QUOTE(Matt K @ Jan 2 2008, 05:54 PM) I am finding that they do better for me if they are more damp than more dry regarding substrate moisture conditions. If they are too dryish for too long the female would abort the ootheca, and not if damp. Now I grow some ivy in thier enclosure to monitor the moisture level....keeping the plant watered one one end of the cage seems to keep the whole thing right. Anyone else have any input or experience with this issue? A part of my colony is from a guy who keeps them on moist cocofiber. He, however, got them from a person who kept them on oatmeal, which is just fine for a lot of species but not for glowpots. The glowspots were surviving on the oatmeal, but not very well. He had some dead ones and only two nymphs in about a half year. I keep them on moist cocofiber as well. I also have some rotten wood in their terra. Thay crawl in the cracks and eat the wood. The cocofiber is more or less beginning to mix with tiny wood chips. They also like to climb from time to time on the wood, but only when the lights are out. They are doing great, I already have seen some nymphs which are very active. I give them pond flakes and apple as their staple diet. Anyone more suggestions for food? |
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Jan 16 2008, 05:05 PM
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Subadult Group: Members Posts: 244 Joined: 26-July 07 From: USA Member No.: 19 |
Thanks for the info. I'm keeping mine on about a 5" layer of peat moss and leaf mulch/hardwood mix. I haven't been disturbing them at all and I can see them through the glass in their little burrows sometimes. I'm going to bump up the moisture a little bit though. Thanks for the tip.
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Jan 16 2008, 07:39 PM
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 Nymph Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 24-September 07 From: Milano, Italy Member No.: 131 |
I'm keeping them in a medium plastic box, in a moss substrate mixed with bleech and oaks old leaves.
Half of the moss is wet, the rest is dry and warmed. My glowspots prefers to stay buried in the dry substrate during the day, but they mess up the wet every night. I also feed them with pond sticks and apple. They seem to be well... two weeks ago I had my first nymphs... 20 or so... -------------------- |
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