Spread.Out.Paradise Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Just a fun hypothetical question! For me, it would be snails and slugs, aquatic inverts of any sort, flies, wasps, cicadas, moths, and katydids. Oh and more roaches of course ...A girl can dream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhjjr Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Jungle nymphs for me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 More harvestmen, click beetles, exotic darkling beetles and camel crickets would be nice. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenB Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 More Periplaneta japonica. A roach that doesn't mind the cold seems very... housable right now. More brightly coloured roaches. Basically any photo in For The Love Of Cockroaches with 'Australia' or 'Singapore' in the caption. (Australian imports, a boy can dream) More Grammostola iheringi tarantulas. Which is why I just ordered a juvie male... 😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tennyson Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Eurycotis improcera(my current favorite roach) as well as Mardi gras roaches. Forget their scientific name but they are so colorful. Also more hemithyrsocera species and just small/tiny roaches in general. Also I’ve always loved tiger and longhorn beetles but not a lot are being breed in the US at least 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 5 hours ago, Tennyson said: Maddi grad roaches Probably referring to Polyzosteria mitchelli. Yeah I'd love those too, maybe one day... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhjjr Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 On 3/5/2022 at 2:59 AM, Spread.Out.Paradise said: Just a fun hypothetical question! For me, it would be ... wasps I've heard of people keeping wasps. You are braver than I am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tennyson Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 12 hours ago, Hisserdude said: Probably referring to Polyzosteria mitchelli. Yeah I'd love those too, maybe one day... that’s the one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenB Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 > Polyzosteria mitchelli > Australia Yes, that'd do nicely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allpet Roaches Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 I remember when it took me a decade to assemble five roach species and longer to find Blaberus giganteus. There is so much great stuff out there. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madnesssr Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Millipede, millipede, and more millipede. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolven Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 I wish Gryllodes sigillatus was more available in the mantis hobby but also the reptile/invertebrate hobby in general. They're higher in protein and do not carry the bacteria that kills mantises. Although some mantis species are sensitive to them and can die from them, many species eat them just fine. They'd be better for reptiles and other invertebrates too that eat them. I don't keep crickets myself but it would be nice of they were more common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogpack Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 I'm not sure yet. I'm currently engaged in collecting all of the hisser species and a few smaller roaches. I might have an answer someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omri Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Giant springtails, but they’re only in Australia/NZ and AFAIK have never been kept in captivity so it’ll probably never happen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kadupul Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 @Omri! They're incredible! I didn't even know that those are in existence! 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromphadorhini Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 1. Buthidae of the Palearctic, more species of the Middle East and North Africa; 2. Oxyhaloinae, especially Gromphadorhini; 3. earwigs from the family Anisolabiidae, especially species from Australia and Oceania; 4. desert darklings from the subfamilies Pimelinae and Blaptinae, but I have not yet managed to make friends with Holometabola; 5. i would also like more Palearctic desert Galeodes, but apparently they will not be able to serve properly in the laboratory; 6. there are a lot of Embioptera and termites, and most importantly, they need to be kept in the laboratory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madagascanhissers118 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Mites. Those giant red velvet ones are the largest of the mite species and they look like very soft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acro Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 On 3/5/2022 at 5:59 AM, Spread.Out.Paradise said: aquatic inverts of any sort I second Aquatic Inverts! I've been keeping aquatic animals (fish, turtles, amphibians, crayfish/shrimp, snails) for over 20 years. I find it odd that aquatic insects and aquatic arachnids have not really moved into the aquarium hobby. Land crabs and amphibious crabs. If breeding in captivity could be figured out, I'm sure more could be kept. Vampire crabs are amazing (and fairly easy to breed), and coconut crabs are out of this world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlamingSwampert Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 More beetles (scarabs, etc), harvestmen, millipedes, vinegraoons, amblypygids, and orthopterans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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