Keeping Roaches

i need anything and everything you know about lobster roaches and hissing roaches because i just got given 300 lobster roaches and 40 hissers because the pet shop i work at was overcrowded and was giving them away

im sure the net has loads of info before the guys on here can get back to you

http://www.nyworms.com/lobsroachcare.htm for lobster roaches

http://www.topline-2000.com/roach/hiscare.html hissing roaches

Dont know how good but first I found on google!


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If you're keeping them as feeders, I can move this to the feeder forum.

Anywho, with any roaches, keep them warm and provide food, and you'll have more than you know what to do with before long. Both of these species are oviviviparous, meaning they give live birth, so you don't need to worry about a suitable substrate for ootheca to develop on.

Both of these species are also glass-climbers, however, so unless you have a fine mesh screen on your lid (first instar lobsters are tiny), spread a thin layer of vaseline over the top one to two inches of the inside of your tank.

Be VERY careful with lobster roaches. A few escaped in my house. Most died out but a few hundred are living in between my matresses. I know sounds gross but there useful there since I keep my roached outside it's conviniant to get a few when I'm being lazy
-Eddy

Yeah, I neglected to mention that lobsters are one of the few feeders where there's a risk of infestation if they escape -- HOWEVER, Eddy lives where it's nice and warm; I'm guessing room temperature in England is below their developmental threshold most of the time.

Eeeeew Eddy

~Abyss~ wrote:

Be VERY careful with lobster roaches. A few escaped in my house. Most died out but a few hundred are living in between my matresses. I know sounds gross but there useful there since I keep my roached outside it's conviniant to get a few when I'm being lazy
-Eddy

i bet you've eaten 100's in your sleep!

IHeartMantids wrote:

If you're keeping them as feeders, I can move this to the feeder forum.
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well...the lobsters are feeders and the hissers are pets...and feeders if i get too many

They dont leave the little niche that is my bed. It's actually the perfect temp for them but I feed them off to fast to produce many offspring I havent seen any nymphs.
-Eddy

Do you hear them at night?

Yeah I do. They get my bearded dragons all stirred up.

Ive gone a long way from when I used to have a roach phobia. Now I sleep with them.

that just sounds worse.
there not only in ur bed but u sleep with them...
u guys really like inverts dont u.?..?..?

How much do we like our inverts, you ask?

I'm going to post this as a link . . . Other admins, if you think this is pushing it, we can take them down (but these HAVE been posted on AB without issue).

>How much men like their scorps<
>How much the ladies like their Ts<

....freaks....

_scorpio_ wrote:

that just sounds worse.
there not only in ur bed but u sleep with them...
u guys really like inverts dont u.?..?..?

I used to have a roach phobia and they dont really bug me at night. They stay around the same area. But I do love my scorps.

That was all in good fun; sorry if I scarred you or something, Scorpio.

Those were actually AIDS awareness posters from France.

You don't get AIDES from intercourse with a scorpion...trust me....

Double eeew Eddy, first the roaches now this...

ManicDan wrote:

Do you hear them at night?

they make a noise?!?!

That was kind of a random post . . .

Yeah, most of our roaches scurry noisily at night. Our hissers randomly hiss at each other, too.

ok...sorry bout the random post but i only just noticed what he said.

ok scorpio....*giggles* those pics clearly were not real because Scorpions and trarantulas are not that big.

Roaches are gross. I had one scare me and chase me when I was a little girl in Barbados for a holiday!
We kept kicking it over the balcony and it kept flying back in...super fast before we could shut the door!

Roaches are gross...crickets are gross. eugh. all feeders are gross! why cant they eat cereal hahaha!

IHeartMantids wrote:

How much do we like our inverts, you ask?

I'm going to post this as a link . . . Other admins, if you think this is pushing it, we can take them down (but these HAVE been posted on AB without issue).

>How much men like their scorps<
>How much the ladies like their Ts<

lol wth is that lol have to say the scorpion turned me on and i wish i was that Tarantula lol if only if only