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OK so you definatly don't want hog town herpes! Darn spell checker ! Herps

Google Hog town herpes, you might find a street address but the store is not there anymore.The roaches were brown but very similar in build to P. Nice a, only found 2 to 3 at a time max, usually solitary, 1 per board.

The locale for the biting cockroaches was south Gainesville Florida. I was running around Orlando two weeks ago at night and I did not see any roaches except fairly large "American" cockroaches. I did see 4 types of tree frogs, mediteranian geckos and two anole species.All were exotic except for green and squirrel tree frogs but I guess you would say this is off topic.All were at Disneys Wide World of Sports resort. Oh yea there were some darn big katydids. If I would have found any exotic roaches, they might have come home with me

Wash them and eat them. They are too good to feed to roaches .

!!!That is discoids. Spell checkers are hell!!!

Thanks everyone. I am heading to Disney. I'll be looking to collect some free range dubias or disclose.

I love the desert herps. I got into roaches to feed my bearded dragons. Since then I have gotten 3 Cuban anoles, two collared lizards and 2 leopard lizards. I am not feeding roaches yet till the colony is well established. I don't have any right now but I love me some chuckwallas !

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Export, that's right or maybe we hock those medicinal roaches over here.

Cool I love your set up. I used to keep my snake collection on a rack and tubs like that. How long does it take you to clean all those bins ?

I am sure size is heritable but I don't know if you would see significant improvement in the first generation.I am going to try to breed my E. Posticus for color and size but it might take a while. Also I don't know how long it would take till inbreeding depression set in and made the line smaller.

Fascinating stuff. I think one of the extreme treatments to get rid of pest roaches is cover the area, insulate it and heat it up to 120 to 140. Maybe that even doesn't kill all the roaches but it might sterilise them.

You are talking really steady hands for AI.. I have done it myself on much larger animals and anything smaller than a cow involves steady hands and a very good perception of anatomy of both the male and female. In theory you would be able to cross animals that are seperated by behavior or anatomical barriers. practice is a whole lot different. Before widespread use of DNA genotyping one of the ways to tell how closely animals were related was to inseminate an egg in a petri dish with hamster sperm.We never got any monkey/hamsters or even mice/ hamsters from this but it helped to tell how clos

Welcome. I don't think anyone knows for sure the nutritional requirements of a roach. I feed high protein cat food for feeding to lizards. Ithink that will be just fine. I think the giants are a little more delicate and need more vegetables though than the average roach. What kind of insectivores do you have ?

Thanks. I don't think it will get that cold in GA in the next 8 days but who knows ? I did not realise I have natural gas heat instead of propane here. Propane has a high delivery fee natural gas is charged per unit like electricity. It could potentially get into the 30 Fahrenheit range. That's way. too cold. I have been keeping them at 90 f and the orange heads are breeding like crazy. I just don't want to screw up a good thing. Thanks for the feedback.