Tiff_Trioxin Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Hi I have a colony of b lateralis ive had for about a month and daily im finding 2 or 3 lats that are acting odd like they cant hardly walk and are twitchy and cant flip over if on their backs, after about 24hrs they always die.. Its always the nymphs dying and my 11 other roach colonies are fine. Can anyone help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sauzo Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 I had the same thing happen to my dubia colony when I got it. I figured it was overheat since when I unpacked them, the egg crates were soaking wet and there was a wet mush of dead roaches at the bottom of the box. Then I kept losing adult females, males and nymphs for about a week or so after. Usually 5 or so a day, slowly dropping to 2-3 a day. Now it seems fine after about 3 weeks(knock on wood). They did the same thing, spaz out and run frantic like they were confused, then lose motor skills, not be able to right themselves up, lethargic and then die. I never did figure out what was going on. All I did was clean the dead out daily and pray. I lost about half my colony order of 40 females, 15 males, 100 large nymphs and 500 mixed nymphs. But like I said, they seem ok now even though I do find a couple dead here and there but its adults so I figure those are just old age. Anyways good luck and hope you don't lose as many as I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiff_Trioxin Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 Thank you! Im losing a few a day, the adults are all fine and I got tons of egg cases. So hopefully ill get new babies to replace the die offs. I contacted the guy they came from. Hopefully he will email me back tomorrow..i love my roaches and the lats are one of my faves, I hope this quits happening, they look so sad all impaired and dying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlandoflor Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 i ordered some lobsters and when i first got them alot of the adults started dying off but after a week it was slow or had stopped and now they are just fine and growing pretty good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rageclick Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Lateralis colonies sometimes collapse in numbers but will recover in due time. Just check the humidity,temperature,food source etc. for optimum production, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rageclick Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 forgot to mention weather could also influence die offs from lats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiff_Trioxin Posted August 15, 2013 Author Share Posted August 15, 2013 Thx, im still waiting to hear back from the guy they came from..i tried more ventillation to see if that helps, I thought they might be getting too hot. Ive tried just about everything at this point, ill keep everyone updated at whats going on. Its odd cause my 11 other colonies of different types of roaches are doing excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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