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It sounds like they might need more humidity if they're having so much trouble emerging. I often put blue bottle pupae directly on the wet side substrate of the enclosure with my predator in it and that has worked well for me. You could try putting them on a little damp soil or adding a little...

All of my roaches get apple in rotation on the fresh foods. I've noticed that certain species have an affinity for particular foods. My dubias will eat sweet potato to the skin while the other colonies just nibble, they also seem to like greens the most. The lateralis go crazy for plums or...

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That species is definitely on my wishlist.

My room doesn't have any overhead light, so it's kind of dim in there even if I have my reading light on. The roaches seem to like it.

I've kept a lot of African Ts and they've all been good eaters.

I've always been a bit obsessed with invertebrates. My mom said it started early. I started keeping spiders and insects that I caught in the yard when I was 7 and it just kept going from there.

The Eublaberus roaches have been very satisfying for that "sand worm" fix if you're a fan. They're nice for handling, too, usually very docile and big enough to show to people if you're trying to introduce them to roaches.

I see nothing wrong with introducing the youngsters to Dune.

You could even just tape some construction paper around the enclosure to give them more protection from the light. They seem to be very photophobic in my experience.

It's easy to start a flour moth culture. Leave some flour or meal open in a dark space during the warmer months. When you see moths or webbing, put it all into a container. If the adults have mated, you'll see larval tunnels in the flour after a few weeks. I keep mine in a small critter...

The green lynx spider (Peucetia viridans) is on my wishlist.

When I used to have finches, they ate little fruit-based pellets and the roaches loved them. They smelled a lot like Fruit Loops. The finch pellets can be spendy but if you find them on sale they can add variety for crickets or roaches.

One thing, in my experience, was that my dubia roaches fed better and seemed less stressed after being moved into the opaque container. Doubled their feeding response within a few days. If yours are in a transparent container, you may want to try that.

I keep my dubias in a large, opaque tub with deep, coarse coir substrate and dense egg crate on one side. I have a seedling heat mat taped to the egg crate side for supplemental heating. I give water crystals but also mist a bit on the cool side of the cage to give them a range of conditions...

Fed it for the first time since I brought it home (after 24 hours of letting it alone) and it took a small lateralis roach right away. This is going to be a fun one, I think.

My S. mesaensis tends to make itself very small when disturbed and barely reacts if I mist near it, but I am always aware of where my animals are when I'm doing cage maintenance and try not to stress them out too much. I've been bitten exactly once in the 25+ years I've been keeping...

Tomorrow my partner and I are putting in a set of shelves to hold all of the invertebrate enclosures. He really loves me because he's not a fan of the spiders or scorpion, though he is starting to come around on the mantids and roaches.

Mine has a made a horizontal tunnel around its vertical cork bark hide. I've never seen one do that before. It looks pretty cool, I'll try to get a decent pic soon.

I've always liked exotic roaches, but I've been out of the hobby for a while because I was in college and working full-time and such. Post-graduation I swore I'd get back to it and I have. Since June I've brought home 9 roach species: dubia, lateralis, lobster, hisser, Halloween hisser...