Psycada Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 I currently have some hssing roach nymphs from the same egg sac and I was wondering, if they happened they happened to breed (not purposefully) and have nymphs would that harm the nymph genetics? I'm separating them anyway as I don't want more nymphs OR incest, but I'm curious on if incest will harm roaches the same way it does for other animals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomjoe Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 It won't hurt them to breed and won't cause genetic problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Inbreeding doesn't seem to affect most commonly cultured cockroach species in the slightest, so there's no reason to separate them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bamboo Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 I'm sure wild population commit incest. When you crack open a log in Madagascar and there's 10,000 hissers, probably most of them are related? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebbewocky Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I had multiple generations of Blaberus giganteus from 1 M/F pair. The only "issue" I noticed was seemingly increasingly strange pronutum patterns, but that could easily be observation bias. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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