I am trying a test to see what foods my Discoid roaches prefer. I am using one of those daily pill containers, filling each little compartment with different foods to see which one gets eaten fastest. Partially out of boredom, but also I have been using a mix of potato buds, wheat germ, Gerber...
I made this bin to try to start a colony of Green Banana roaches, which are fairly fast and can fly. First hot glued some vent screen to one side.
I cut two sheets of plexiglass or whatever plastic this was, not sure it was some scraps. The first became an inside rim cut exactly to fit...
Here’s a bigger version of a cup feeder, made from a windshield wiper fluid jug. The only real modifications were making a little barrier lip across the bottom of the opening with some of the plastic cut from the window so the crickets don’t crawl out the front, and including a little strip when...
I am not allowed to have Dubias in Florida, but I was working in the yard over the weekend and discovered I have many Florida Skunk roaches under boulders and logs in my yard. They actually look somewhat like Dubias with very short useless wings. I’m going to start a colony from them and see how...
I haven’t started a colony yet, but doing research. Have to ask about mites. Are they inevitable? What can you do to have a mite-free colony and what can you do, if anything, if they show up?
How is it possible for a wild cham to dig itself out of a nest that is over a foot deep? It seems impossible! Has anyone ever left eggs in a deep nest?