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I recently purchased some dubia roaches as feeders and mites have spread from one enclosure to the next and I've been dealing with it by drying enclosures that could be dried while boiling substrate from enclosures that would take too long to dry and keeping the infested inhabitants dry for about a day while the hitchhiking mites die and fall off from dehydration.
Today I was dealing with my Archispirostreptus gigas tank and discovered that the mites are perfectly at home in their tank--they're visible in rather large numbers on the surface of the substrate. I began removing substrate and pouring boiling water through it when I discovered small, yellowish spheres that look very similar to miracle grow fertilizer pellets and realized there were eggs.
It was too late for the few that I found in the already heat-treated batch of substrate, but I collected the ones I could find in the second bucket of substrate I was about to treat before placing the substrate back into the enclosure. There are several buckets worth of substrate in the nearly-filled 20 gallon long aquarium, so hopefully there are more eggs in there that have been left undisturbed.
I can tell from the eggs that I'd found that the eggs are laid singly within a pellet of subtrate or poop and scattered throughout the substrate rather than laid in a chamber. Does anyone have any experience with eggs of this species that might know if the disturbed eggs will still survive? One of the eggs has already hatched.
Today I was dealing with my Archispirostreptus gigas tank and discovered that the mites are perfectly at home in their tank--they're visible in rather large numbers on the surface of the substrate. I began removing substrate and pouring boiling water through it when I discovered small, yellowish spheres that look very similar to miracle grow fertilizer pellets and realized there were eggs.
It was too late for the few that I found in the already heat-treated batch of substrate, but I collected the ones I could find in the second bucket of substrate I was about to treat before placing the substrate back into the enclosure. There are several buckets worth of substrate in the nearly-filled 20 gallon long aquarium, so hopefully there are more eggs in there that have been left undisturbed.
I can tell from the eggs that I'd found that the eggs are laid singly within a pellet of subtrate or poop and scattered throughout the substrate rather than laid in a chamber. Does anyone have any experience with eggs of this species that might know if the disturbed eggs will still survive? One of the eggs has already hatched.
