Silverback Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Only 7 nymphs 25 Litre tub Sub is crushed leaf litter - crushed rotted wood - shredded live moss - whole leaf litter on top piece of natural live moss at one end with natural bark hides comments advice welcomed SB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Looks very nice, though I would recommend adding more vertical bark pieces, for the nymphs to molt to adulthood properly off of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted September 3, 2022 Author Share Posted September 3, 2022 Agreed mate actually thought I'd said in this post but it was on my other post about them in General Blat Discussions saying it's only for now and I'll move them into something taller but definetly keep the advice/suggestions coming as I'm always happy to listen to an experienced keeper Cheers SB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted October 6, 2022 Author Share Posted October 6, 2022 They've now been upgraded to a 40 litre tub All 7 nymphs looking well and have grown considerably since I got them Bark cave and inside on the floor of the cave a flat bark with a half round on top so they've got a cave inside a cave SB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 Very nice, hope they mature soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted October 8, 2022 Author Share Posted October 8, 2022 Cheers mate me too and I'm getting 12 A 'Cerro Chucanti' nymphs soon so I'll have Their even bigger relations SB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhjjr Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 Very nice look with the live moss in all your enclosures! And the bark too i usually end up using pieces of the queen palms that fall down everywhere here. Caves are awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted October 9, 2022 Author Share Posted October 9, 2022 Thank you I try to use natural stuff in all my pet Roach colonies and I've managed to collect a lot of bark due to the bad storms here a while ago that brought down 1000s of trees and I have a huge supply of Moss locally so I'm quite lucky I always try to do some sort of cave/s for all the relevant Roaches I'd love to use palms but obviously we don't have them here and they cost a fortune to buy so I guess your lucky too How many colonies do you have and what are they Take care SB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhjjr Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 On 10/9/2022 at 1:04 AM, Silverback said: How many colonies do you have and what are they Take care SB Hi Right now I have 19 colonies. My favorite is probably T. olegrandjrani. I found babies last week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 Think I'm at 22 but more coming so it's gonna be 25+ very soon and they're one of my favourites too I only started with 5 adults and some nymphs last year and I've now got an adult colony of 60+ with dozens more nymphs maturing from my original little colony every week so it doesn't take long once they get going and based on the current results from what I started with I can only think I'll have literally 100s next year I do like my large roaches tho as my Hybrid blab colony is one of my current favourites too Good luck with your new babies and I've found the nymphs very protein hungry and grow/mature much faster with plenty of protein (but found all nymphs of pretty much every species are the same even with adults who are not interested in protein) SB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 On 10/8/2022 at 7:53 AM, Silverback said: 12 A 'Cerro Chucanti' Jealous, we don't have that strain of Archimandrita in the US hobby yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 Tbh mate I'd never heard of them till recently but thought anything that's a bigger Tesselata 😳 is a must have 😁 but I'll post some pics once I get them SB 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 6 minutes ago, Silverback said: Tbh mate I'd never heard of them till recently but thought anything that's a bigger Tesselata 😳 is a must have 😁 but I'll post some pics once I get them SB Hopefully they do well for you, would love to see that strain in the US hobby one of these days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 Thanks mate and here's a pic that the chap I'm getting the nymphs off sent me of one of his adults I think it's a really pretty roach can't wait to get my nymphs just hope they grow as quick as my Tesselata SB 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted November 17, 2022 Author Share Posted November 17, 2022 Update got my first adult 😁 Well it's the first one I've seen so I'll have a gently look through later to check as they're were 7 nymphs various sizes but several big ones and they've all been growing very fast but wasn't expecting adults just yet They're much prettier in the flesh as it where and so calm very enjoyable to handle And just for the record measured at 7cm I was expecting them to be bigger but maybe it just seems small compared to my hybrids as I'm used to their size now Just hope they all survive as I've read they can just die after moulting to adult I'll update as necessary SB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 Been MIA for a while still no answer from my enquiry to the board 🙄 I now have 3 adults and 3 nymphs should of been 4 adults but unfortunately lost 1 without obvious cause so🤞I hopefully end up with 5/6 adults and can get some babies eventually All the adults are very different so easy to tell apart I'll update when I have any news SB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddog70 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 On 1/2/2023 at 5:33 PM, Silverback said: Been MIA for a while still no answer from my enquiry to the board 🙄 I now have 3 adults and 3 nymphs should of been 4 adults but unfortunately lost 1 without obvious cause so🤞I hopefully end up with 5/6 adults and can get some babies eventually All the adults are very different so easy to tell apart I'll update when I have any news SB How are you keeping these temperture and humidity etc they are stunning species Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted January 4 Author Share Posted January 4 Personally I think they're pretty easy to keep Temp 80s (up to low 90s) Humidity 70s + I have about 4" of loose sub crushed leaves crushed rotted wood and shredded moss plus a layer of leaf litter on top (whole leaves) and I keep the bottom inch or so of sub dark and never let it dry out and spray about every 3 days I prefer to spray less volume more frequently which is more work/time but I feel gives a better more stable result Plenty of bark uprights making a cave and they seem to divide their time between under the bark and in the leaf litter and I feel the top leaf litter layer is very important and reflects their natural habits and environment Nymphs love my high protein dry food and the adults seem to prefer fruit/veg I use mostly banana apple and Butternut squash SB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddog70 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 17 hours ago, Silverback said: Personally I think they're pretty easy to keep Temp 80s (up to low 90s) Humidity 70s + I have about 4" of loose sub crushed leaves crushed rotted wood and shredded moss plus a layer of leaf litter on top (whole leaves) and I keep the bottom inch or so of sub dark and never let it dry out and spray about every 3 days I prefer to spray less volume more frequently which is more work/time but I feel gives a better more stable result Plenty of bark uprights making a cave and they seem to divide their time between under the bark and in the leaf litter and I feel the top leaf litter layer is very important and reflects their natural habits and environment Nymphs love my high protein dry food and the adults seem to prefer fruit/veg I use mostly banana apple and Butternut squash SB Thanks very much for your info, thats great and saved me the hard work🙂👍 i have been preparing a few large second hand fish tanks ready for a few species that i fancy keeping just have to sort out the ventilation now, I was a little curious and ended up googling weather variants in cerro chucanti appears to be a tad cooler than less mountainous regions but not knowing the exact location this species was collected i was going to try them at a Similar temperature to blaberus giganteus, but if you have successfully kept them at that then thats brilliant i will probably follow suit👍 heres a few of my aquariums sorry for the rubbish pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverback Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 Quick update as not been on here for a while Now the final count got 6 adults (from 7 nymphs) all very healthy and huge everything perfect so expecting the patter of tiny feet anytime soon SB 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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