Hisserdude Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 Got some of these beauties last week along with the Bantua, here are some pictures of a nymph: And an adult male! Fingers crossed I can breed them successfully! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Sonnenscheisse Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 I wish you good luck with them. Have you got helpful hints how to breed them? Greetings, Marco 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 14 hours ago, Marco Sonnenscheisse said: I wish you good luck with them. Have you got helpful hints how to breed them? Greetings, Marco Thanks! I do actually, after talking with people breeding this species, it appears they do best when one corner of the enclosure is kept moist, while the rest is kept dry, they also appreciate bark and branches to climb on, and they have pretty large appetites for Gyna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 More pictures of my male: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 Just found an adult female in the enclosure last night, she's pretty dark, but very pretty nonetheless! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted November 6, 2019 Author Share Posted November 6, 2019 Subadult female: So far so good, just rehoused my colony recently, so hopefully by the spring I'll have hundreds of the things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 I can now confirm that mine are breeding, so WOOT WOOT! 😁 Additionally the colony as a whole is doing great, lots of nymphs growing at a decent pace, food is disappearing at a rapidly increasing rate, and I'm having some more nymph's mature. Here are some pictures of an adult male! In case anyone is wondering why he's covered in dust, he kept running off the windowsill where I was photographing him and jumping down to the carpet below... 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 Finally got a brighter pink female! 😁 Looks like I've got several more females about to mature soon too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auz Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 gorgeous! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 12 hours ago, Auz said: gorgeous! Thanks, I certainly think so! 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 More female pics, quite a few in the colony right now, hoping for some more litters to be born soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted October 9, 2020 Author Share Posted October 9, 2020 Unfortunately my colony has had a big crash, they were having some nymph die offs and adults weren't giving birth, which I tied to a big Oribatid mite outbreak in their enclosure, which had gotten quite bad, and the roaches didn't want to eat the food the mites were swarming. So, I sterilized the substrate and started offering all their food in bowls. A couple months later, I dug them up, and found that my colony had went from 80+ to 20... Turns out they can't find food in even shallow food bowls... 🙃 And leaf litter alone was not able to sustain this culture. So basically I'm left with a small starter colony, hopefully I can get them breeding again now that I've got their issues figured out and fixed... Anyways, here are some pictures of an adult pair: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin_the_roach Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 How are they doing now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
that_bug_girl Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 they are all SO beautiful and incredible! I actually really liked your darker pigmented female.🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted July 3 Author Share Posted July 3 On 4/2/2021 at 11:40 AM, Thorin_the_roach said: How are they doing now? Sadly I lost the culture, went into more depth on my blog, but essentially I just kept making blunder after blunder with them, and this is NOT a forgiving species... My last and final mistake was not keeping them warm enough, females seem to need temps in excess of 85F to give birth consistently to full sized litters. I sent some to multiple keepers though, I think @Ty Randall by far has been the most successful breeding them, his colony is thriving! On 6/28/2021 at 4:45 PM, that_bug_girl said: they are all SO beautiful and incredible! I actually really liked your darker pigmented female.🙂 Thanks, they certainly are a beautiful species, hope to keep them again one day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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