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Nice, glad to see this species is doing well for you! Keep us updated on them!
Ooh, make sure it doesn't get too hot in there, I've heard that temperatures above 85 can be harmful to this species...It says on an Australia site that they are in the upper 60's underground there but it's 80 degrees in the room they are in and they have done just fine over here.
Ok. They must be more hardier despite what you read on them.It says on an Australia site that they are in the upper 60's underground there but it's 80 degrees in the room they are in and they have done just fine over here.
Yikes, that sucks, especially since this species usually only gives birth once in captivity. Did you have the male housed with the female? According to @Elytra and Antenna, you can't sex them until the fourth instar, so it'll be a while until you can get them sexed. Remember that for the nymphs you want a substrate about half an inch thin, as thy suffer extreme molting deformities if they are buried, they aren't substrate swimmers like the other burrowing roaches in the hobby.OH no!! I only found 4 juvs. I think I waited to long to go through the substrate. There are also 100s of Arenivaga in there, hope that didn't have anything to do with it. I don't know what species of Arenivaga they are. Anyway, the 4 juvs look very healthy, yeah but only 4. Can they be sexed out when young? I can take pics of underneath for people to sex out here if it's possible to do so. I won't feel so bad if I at least have one pair. It's kind of a mess here with mobility probs recently, a bad knee so I've been letting some things get out of hand.
Sorry to hear that about the male, that's a shame, at least he fertilized your female before he died. Well if they are at least four instars old then I'd like to see those pictures, if you have two pairs then that's great, if taken care of well it's highly likely that all four will make to adulthood!I had no intentions of raising Arenivaga, I don't care much about those, I just threw some in there I found, devil may care, forgetting about it and now there are 100s, moist in there and they obviously didn't mind. The male rhino was injured and died before female had babies. They must be 4th instar or more because I think I just sexed them out, more evidence they were prob in too long together. Those Arenivaga take advantage of molting things also, saw them devouring an Arenivaga dying male freshly molted. I'll post pics I just took for others to see, pretty sure I have two pair so I'm OK with it. Honestly I don't need more animals atm even though these are to be appreciated since so hard to get.
Oh OK, I see them now. Yup you got a nice 2:2 ratio right there, hope they do well for you!Go check out the pics, I already loaded them. I don't know what species of Arenivaga they are, just not interested in them so never looked into it but I suspected they are bolliana, found in central tx(?) I'll prob throw a pic of them in this thread.