I think my roaches are eating eachother. I got pinhead roaches, but of different sizes, and I think they’ve ate a good amount of the smaller ones. At least three, Possibly five or six.
I noticed this after I started not humidifying them daily because I was trying to do research and read they like it NOT humid. After doing some digging for answers via experience with humidity I found the change was harmful and they actually like humidity.
Now I check them daily, spraying water to increase humidity daily, because an older thread mentioned that being a factor as well as having protein available for stress and cannibalism.
They had roach chow available in a bottle cap I’ve seen them able to go in and out of. But I added dog kibble and carrots after reading it was needed to reduce stress. They’ve always had water crystals available.
However they ate one again I think even after this change. I’ve never seen them actively eating one, but I found another pile of legs and a top of a head.
Do they molt and eat their molts by chance? I haven’t seen their molts in the month I’ve had them and they’ve gotten a lot bigger since. Or are they still eating eachother? Maybe it’ll take a couple days since I made the food and humidity change for them to calm down? Evidence that they aren’t only eating molts is I’ve had a roach only have three legs and it’s managed to survive another week, so I’m thinking it was bullied but spared for some reason.
Does anyone else have experience with this? I only have around 20-30 and they’re still small, in a plastic bin with ventilation holes, and egg crate pieces for them to hide in. They have a lot of room I think. I keep them next to a heating mat for the heat gradient and they hangout by the mat so I don’t think it’s to hot.
I took a picture with a lighter for scale of their enclosure as well as a picture of some of them bunched up with my little thumb for scale.
I noticed this after I started not humidifying them daily because I was trying to do research and read they like it NOT humid. After doing some digging for answers via experience with humidity I found the change was harmful and they actually like humidity.
Now I check them daily, spraying water to increase humidity daily, because an older thread mentioned that being a factor as well as having protein available for stress and cannibalism.
They had roach chow available in a bottle cap I’ve seen them able to go in and out of. But I added dog kibble and carrots after reading it was needed to reduce stress. They’ve always had water crystals available.
However they ate one again I think even after this change. I’ve never seen them actively eating one, but I found another pile of legs and a top of a head.
Do they molt and eat their molts by chance? I haven’t seen their molts in the month I’ve had them and they’ve gotten a lot bigger since. Or are they still eating eachother? Maybe it’ll take a couple days since I made the food and humidity change for them to calm down? Evidence that they aren’t only eating molts is I’ve had a roach only have three legs and it’s managed to survive another week, so I’m thinking it was bullied but spared for some reason.
Does anyone else have experience with this? I only have around 20-30 and they’re still small, in a plastic bin with ventilation holes, and egg crate pieces for them to hide in. They have a lot of room I think. I keep them next to a heating mat for the heat gradient and they hangout by the mat so I don’t think it’s to hot.
I took a picture with a lighter for scale of their enclosure as well as a picture of some of them bunched up with my little thumb for scale.
