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Hopefully this pretzel container with a screw on top will too. I figure it's about 1.8 gal capacity.

I have a plastic container about 7.5 inches dia and 9.5 inches tall looking for recommendations of what to keep in it. I was thinking about Arenivaga tonkawa or Arenivaga genitalis and was wondering how they would do, or is there possibly any better choices for this size container?

So far most of what I feed my isopods is maple and pecan leaves I collected in the fall.

Fruit flies might be a good choice too. They should breed quick enough and you could make new cultures every 2 - 3 weeks and be good to go for the long term. Plenty of how to vids on youtube for making cultures too.

Could always start a few isopod cultures to feed them too.

What about pieces of bark? I watch a youtube vid on little kenyans and when the bark was picked up the underside had quit a few.  You would be able to knock them off into another container to pick feeders from.

What about Parcoblatta?

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Try some dog/cat food or maybe even some oats they may be needing protein

Very nice looking

Little Kenyan, Goblin roach, maybe the Parcoblatta?

Fruit and nut tree leave would probably be ok.

Glad to hear you found a chick feed that'll work for you. I've read and heard plenty of people that use chick feed not only for their roaches but also for their crickets. Economically chick feed also makes better since if you have a farm supply store near you because I can pick up 30 - 40 lbs of it for the price of 16 lbs of cat food. That being said I have E. prosticus so I use the pond fish food because of the higher protein, and give lots of fruits so I haven't noticed much wing biting.

Dog and cat food are fine. You can also use fish food, chicken feed, oats, bran, and cereal.

If the chick feed has animal protein check the others along with horse feed. I have no clue on protein amounts on any of them but I wouldn't think there would be animal in the herbivore food, but you never know.

If there are any feed stores/farm supply stores near you check em out. I'm not sure for veggie only but my first thought would be rabbit food. You could also check the ingredient lists for chicken, cow, sheep, and goat feed. You could also check pond fish food there but the fish food I use does have some animal protein. I think the chick feed runs between 16% - 20% protein. Usually you can get feed in 40 - 50 lbs bags at a fairly cheap price.

I don't use heat mats. I use an oil filled electric radiator type room heater during the winter and have the ac vent for the room blocked off for the summer. my daytime high gets to 80 -85f and night time low is about 75. My colony has grown a lot but i started with far more from 3 or 4 sources. 1 of those sources I got a lot of mature females so that helped a lot.

Oh btw if you have any feed stores near you, you could go there and buy chicken grower food fairly cheap. I've read and heard it used by quite a few. It's where I get my pond fish food that only cost me $15 for 40lbs, and around where i live chick grower food is like $10 - $15 a bag too.

How many do you have? The more you have the more likely you'll see them eat. My colony is on the larger size now and I feed it about every other day. When feeding I can watch them moving down the egg crates toward the food. They swarm the dry food first then spread out toward the fresh fruits and veggies. You could mix in dry dog, cat, or fish food if you want. My mix is Pond fish food and whatever leftover cereal i have at the time.

Your list looks fine. Oranges are not bad for them its orange oil that could cause problems and that's in the skin. I feed mine half an orange or more every other day and they eat everything but the peel, and haven't had any problems yet.

They like oranges, zucchini, grapefruit, and sweet potato too

Dog food should be fine.

What species are you making the setup for and what is your room temps?

all the Gromphadorhina hybrids are just as fertile as purebeed as far as I've heard and will keep makeing hybrids.

Blaberus, Eublaberus, and Parcoblatta is what I would be using the wood for i was mainly wondering if any of these are known to be harmful to roaches or if they are all ok.