Different species of roaches

[xBlackFirex]

Hello, so I have a few tanks with different species of roaches in them. The main bug tank is a 29g closed terrarium with Oriental roaches, darkling beetles, springtails, and a few fancy types of isopods.

2nd tank is a 40g temperature regulated tropical which houses a tomato frog and crested gecko, as well as a Dubia colony leftover from a bearded dragon.

3rd tank is also a 40g temperature regulated rehomed bioactive leopard gecko tank which came with isopods, darkling beetles, and 2 Madagascar hissing roaches. I tried to rehouse the hissers into the bug tank however they did not seem to like the set up at the time and I returned them to the leopard tank. I am about to remove many of the bugs from the leopard tank as recently there's come to be too many.

I have the means to set up a 4th tank just for the hissers, but do you think they would be able to live with the dubias in the tropical tank? Or to try the closed terrarium again? Or set them up a dedicated 15?

Attached is a picture of the closed terrarium

 

[Hisserdude]

Hissers prefer drier conditions in general, so they might not do the best in the tropical tank as a result. The main bug tank may be more to their liking, if darkling beetles are doing fine in there.

 

[xBlackFirex]

The bug tank has pretty high humidity/moisture due to the oriental roaches being Waterbugs. So do you think they would still be okay in there?

I feed the tank using frozen thaw mice, vegetable scraps, and bloodworm fish food

 

[Hisserdude]

Hmm maybe not, you might need to set them up in their own tank then.

 

[TheraMygale]

I don’t have the privilege of having roaches at all. Here its discoids, the end. They are not established in the market either. Prices are terrible.

for some reason, in my personal logic, i would not house different species together.

 

[Brewser]

Trying to keep Several Species thriving together in a confined space is Challenging...
Competition, Limited Resources, etc.
"Survival of the Fittest"

 

[TheraMygale]

Trying to keep Several Species thriving together in a confined space is Challenging...
Competition, Limited Resources, etc.
"Survival of the Fittest"

Everyone who kept multiple hamsters in one small space knows how that ends.

every morning at the petshop: priority: check the hamsters. Hide the truth.

 

[xBlackFirex]

Everyone who kept multiple hamsters in one small space knows how that ends.

every morning at the petshop: priority: check the hamsters. Hide the truth.

Believe me I know that one, I've had multiple hamsters in medical over the last week due to being double booked when they came in. Most of the cases were actually wet tail though, just lost 3 out of a group of 4 even though they were split up in quarantine.

Roach update they seem to be okay in the tank, and I've been adding more plants and am going to get another piece of wood for them to hide.
I keep plenty of food of different types, right now they have peppers, mice, a tarantula molt, bloodworm fish food, and they absolutely decimated the lil pile of spaghetti noodles I dropped the other day.

I just worry about putting them in with the other hissers I have in the leopard tank cause I haven't actually seen those two in a while(a super ton of places to hide though)

I have a vertical 15g front open, that I'll probably convert into a space for them in the future.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Believe me I know that one, I've had multiple hamsters in medical over the last week due to being double booked when they came in. Most of the cases were actually wet tail though, just lost 3 out of a group of 4 even though they were split up in quarantine.

Roach update they seem to be okay in the tank, and I've been adding more plants and am going to get another piece of wood for them to hide.
I keep plenty of food of different types, right now they have peppers, mice, a tarantula molt, bloodworm fish food, and they absolutely decimated the lil pile of spaghetti noodles I dropped the other day.

I just worry about putting them in with the other hissers I have in the leopard tank cause I haven't actually seen those two in a while(a super ton of places to hide though)

I have a vertical 15g front open, that I'll probably convert into a space for them in the future.

I tried mealworms as cleaner crew for my orange head roaches , either they ate them all or there hiding deep under the frass. Hissers require similar dry care as my oranges. They might need actual substrate my kept dying in coco fiber so I removed it.

Considering orange headed roaches ??

Any tips advice , would I be better off ordering smaller ones and raising them Up from that size to breed them as feeders ,or spend more for 3/4-1” size ones for less growth time? I’m in no hurry to get a colony going but quicker might save me money on superworms. It’s also cheaper to buy...

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[Nocturnalnature]

Hello, so I have a few tanks with different species of roaches in them. The main bug tank is a 29g closed terrarium with Oriental roaches, darkling beetles, springtails, and a few fancy types of isopods.

2nd tank is a 40g temperature regulated tropical which houses a tomato frog and crested gecko, as well as a Dubia colony leftover from a bearded dragon.

3rd tank is also a 40g temperature regulated rehomed bioactive leopard gecko tank which came with isopods, darkling beetles, and 2 Madagascar hissing roaches. I tried to rehouse the hissers into the bug tank however they did not seem to like the set up at the time and I returned them to the leopard tank. I am about to remove many of the bugs from the leopard tank as recently there's come to be too many.

I have the means to set up a 4th tank just for the hissers, but do you think they would be able to live with the dubias in the tropical tank? Or to try the closed terrarium again? Or set them up a dedicated 15?

Attached is a picture of the closed terrarium

As in the kind that many people call Waterbugs and are known to infest houses?

 

[watson]

As in the kind that many people call Waterbugs and are known to infest houses?

Those are atrocious pests! Noisome beasts. I had one keep appearing in my room from outdoors, that seemingly snuck in through a small opening in my window. Luckily, I found each one and disposed of these; also, stuffing the small opening with gummy art eraser. That seemed to work.

On topic, I'm currently trying to determine a good isopod / hisser roach colony springtail addition.
I suppose I could take out the poop, but it seems nice to have a cleanup crew devouring frass.

i'm not certain how hissers do with geckos, perhaps that's an immediate food source?

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Those are atrocious pests! Noisome beasts. I had one keep appearing in my room from outdoors, that seemingly snuck in through a small opening in my window. Luckily, I found each one and disposed of these; also, stuffing the small opening with gummy art eraser. That seemed to work.

On topic, I'm currently trying to determine a good isopod / hisser roach colony springtail addition.
I suppose I could take out the poop, but it seems nice to have a cleanup crew devouring frass.

i'm not certain how hissers do with geckos, perhaps that's an immediate food source?

Don’t males climb ?? I use dubia those get big enough for feeders .

 

[Elytra and Antenna]

Hello, so I have a few tanks with different species of roaches in them. The main bug tank is a 29g closed terrarium with Oriental roaches, darkling beetles, springtails, and a few fancy types of isopods.

2nd tank is a 40g temperature regulated tropical which houses a tomato frog and crested gecko, as well as a Dubia colony leftover from a bearded dragon.

3rd tank is also a 40g temperature regulated rehomed bioactive leopard gecko tank which came with isopods, darkling beetles, and 2 Madagascar hissing roaches. I tried to rehouse the hissers into the bug tank however they did not seem to like the set up at the time and I returned them to the leopard tank. I am about to remove many of the bugs from the leopard tank as recently there's come to be too many.

I have the means to set up a 4th tank just for the hissers, but do you think they would be able to live with the dubias in the tropical tank? Or to try the closed terrarium again? Or set them up a dedicated 15?

Attached is a picture of the closed terrarium

What about trying a big, winged species like Blaberus giganteus or Archimandrita?