Can I house desert cockroachs with desert beetles?

[Felix S]

I'm planning to do a community desert bug terrarium in a 10 gallon.
Here is what I was thinking on stocking:
2 Egyptian Desert Roaches
2 Desert Ironclad Beetle
3 Blue Death Feigning Beetle
2 Darkling Beetles
2 Gold Desert Millipedes

 

[Smokehound714]

the adults will be okay, but those beetles and their larvae will kill them as they molt and will eat loose oothecae

 

[Hisserdude]

Like @Smokehound714, adults of all those species could coexist very nicely, however the Tenebrionid larvae will eat the roaches' ooths and quite possibly molting nymphs.

I kept two male Coelocnemis californica with my Polyphaga aegyptiaca for several years, they coexisted very nicely, the beetles never harmed the roaches in any stage of their lives.

 

[Felix S]

Thank you guys so much for the advice. I will make sure to just put adults into the terrarium.

 

[Felix S]

the adults will be okay, but those beetles and their larvae will kill them as they molt and will eat loose oothecae

Got it. I wasn't planning on breeding anything, but that is good to know. I will add each bug at a time, each once they are adults. Again, thank you so much for the advice!

 

[VolkswagenBug]

Remember to keep it a bit more moist/add more substrate than you would for a regular darkling setup. The roaches need at least a moist corner and the millis need burrowing room.