All About Arthropods Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Hello everyone! My name is Joshua, I have known about this forum for a while but didn't actually start viewing it that much until a couple weeks ago. It looked really cool, so I decided to join a couple days ago! I have been keeping insects since 2013 when I got my first pet insects, which were 2 female ghost mantids. I had only kept mantids until September of last year when I received a black death feigning beetle, fuzzy darkling beetle,eleodes armatus, and another darkling from Peter. I currently have 4 blue death feigning beetles, 2 black death feigning beetles, a fuzzy darkling beetle, an eleodes armatus, 2 asbolus laevis, 4 unidentified darkling beetles, 2 chrysina gloriosa larvae, some very small mealworm beetle larvae, some wild-caught isopods, 3 large wild-caught beetle larvae(two of which have pupated), 1 adult male wide horn hisser, and 1 Madagascar hisser nymph. But by far my favorite pet insects are roaches! I look forward to delving far into the cockroach hobby and keeping many more of these amazing insects! I am excited to grow my collection and am looking into getting some new roaches from Kyle soon! Glad to join this great community of fellow roach lovers! , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Welcome to the forum! Nice collection you got there, I used to be quite the darkling beetle fanatic! Glad you are diving into the roach hobby, Kyle is a great guy and I would definitely recommend buying some roaches from him. I look forward to reading your posts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted February 14, 2016 Author Share Posted February 14, 2016 Welcome to the forum! Nice collection you got there, I used to be quite the darkling beetle fanatic! Glad you are diving into the roach hobby, Kyle is a great guy and I would definitely recommend buying some roaches from him. I look forward to reading your posts! Thanks! I look forward to posting when I get some! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted February 14, 2016 Author Share Posted February 14, 2016 By the way you have a really cool blog Hisserdude! I really like the polyphaga saussurie, they are what I am probably going to get from Kyle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Thanks! You should definitely get the Polyphaga saussurei, they are one of my favorite species in my collection! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Welcome to the forum! Glad we have another super roach enthusiast on here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 Welcome to the forum! Glad we have another super roach enthusiast on here Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NERVOUS Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 I really like the polyphaga saussurie, they are what I am probably going to get from Kyle. I have made up my mind, I am going to get a starter colony of eurycotis decipiens and maybe some tropical pink springtails from Kyle in the next month or so and I will purchase the gasket container for them! I'm pretty excited! After that I am planning to get some polyphaga saussurei and substrate from Kyle for my birthday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 I have made up my mind, I am going to get a starter colony of eurycotis decipiens and maybe some tropical pink springtails from Kyle in the next month or so and I will purchase the gasket container for them! I'm pretty excited! After that I am planning to get some polyphaga saussurei and substrate from Kyle for my birthday! Cool, very nice choice! Never kept any Eurycotis, but they are on my wish list! (Along with almost every other roach!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 Cool, very nice choice! Never kept any Eurycotis, but they are on my wish list! (Along with almost every other roach!) Thanks! When I get those two species they will be my first two colonies I've ever had! I LOL about the wish list! All of the Eurycotis sp. roaches are on my wish list along with a lot of the polphagid roaches, African bullets, and some of the nicer species of hissers. Along with many other species as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Thanks! When I get those two species they will be my first two colonies I've ever had! I LOL about the wish list! All of the Eurycotis sp. roaches are on my wish list along with a lot of the polphagid roaches, African bullets, and some of the nicer species of hissers. Along with many other species as well! Yep, starting a breeding colony is fun!! Lol, it's true though! I love most roaches, the only ones I am not interested in are some of the feeders, just because I need bigger cages for those, and a few species that I don't think are going to do well in my collection. All of those are great picks, I love the Polyphagids! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 I love pretty much all roaches, the ones I'm not interested in keeping are the small species that can fly( because I really wouldn't want to loose any by accident) and the ovoviviparous ones( not that I don't like the species but because a colony would be a lot harder to manage than the oviparous species where a colony can be easily managed by discarding some of the egg sacks when the colony gets a little overrun.) I still would keep species that are ovoviviparous but only by themselves, or a colony of ones that reproduce very slowly with only a small amount of nymphs for litter, or a colony of very small roaches like the pill bug roaches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 I love pretty much all roaches, the ones I'm not interested in keeping are the small species that can fly( because I really wouldn't want to loose any by accident) and the ovoviviparous ones( not that I don't like the species but because a colony would be a lot harder to manage than the oviparous species where a colony can be easily managed by discarding some of the egg sacks when the colony gets a little overrun.) I still would keep species that are ovoviviparous but only by themselves, or a colony of ones that reproduce very slowly with only a small amount of nymphs for litter, or a colony of very small roaches like the pill bug roaches. Well get something that eats roaches, you won't have to worry about overpopulation then! Most roach species don't tend to overpopulate as long as you start out with decent sized containers. It all depends on the species I guess. I actually plan on getting some of the roly poly roaches soon, it seems like they are gonna be a very fun species to have! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 Cool, Pretty rare too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Cool, Pretty rare too! Yeah, frankly I'm surprised more people aren't keeping them. They are just so interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 They are definitely, it's very amazing that they can roll up into a ball just like a pill bug! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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