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We have reached L4! 😁

I have pure bernhardti, and what are supposedly real petiveriana as well. Waiting for the latter to establish still, getting babies from the bernhardti now though so those will be available soonish.

I have found that this species seems to like a humidity gradient, personally I go for a 50/50 horizontal gradient.

I don't do night temperature drops at all. My current bug room is kept in the mid 80s 24/7.

Bit late on posting an update here but they have in fact reached L3. :)

Yeah I don't bother with night drops or anything.

Yeah they eventually started hatching, think it was just taking so long because I was keeping them in the 70s. Once you bump the temps up to the mid 80s it takes like 4-5 months for hatching.

Yeah if you have 50-100 in there already that's as many as an enclosure that size is ever gonna hold. You'll want to give them a bigger, wider enclosure with more substrate/surface area if you want a larger population.

Welcome to the forum (TJ here)! 😄

Looks exactly like an adult P.couloniana to me. Definitely not P.americana.

These have not made it to culture anywhere yet unfortunately.

They are one of the cutest I've worked with in a while for sure! 😄 It's so crazy to have pined for this species for so long, and to finally have them... I just hope I can rear some to adulthood successfully. 🤞😅 Crazier still, these R.bilunata may not be the only Rochaina I work with this year...

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They've started molting to L2 and OMG the color change is crazy!

These have been a dream species of mine, ever since I first recieved my copy of the "Allpet Roaches" booklet, which has one on the cover (erroneously IDd as Paratropes lycoides). Such an iconic species, if I can rear these to adulthood I will be ecstatic. 😄

IT HATCHED!!! 😁 Around 20 nymphs, several of which I found still hanging out inside of the ootheca, which was oddly devoid of any of the usual membranes left inside that separate each egg. The total time from the ooth being laid to hatching was a little under 4 months, so not terrible, it...

I think the longest reported incubation was around 14 months for M.blaberoides according to Russian hobbyists.

Oothecae of this species can take over a year to incubate... so it will be a while still.

I would do terrible disgusting things to get these... 🤣

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