Hissing Cockroach breeding

[Goose]

Hello everybody. I'm looking for input on breeding hissing cockroaches. I have colonies of dubia and lateralis roaches, and they're breeding well. But my hissing cockroaches don't seem to be doing much. Any ideas?

 

[Galapoheros]

How are you keeping them right now? Maybe people could start helping from there. I'm trying to get mine to stop breeding! It gets below 60 in that room in the winter and they still keep going. What are you feeding yours? I feed the ones I have anything green I get at a health food store, and bananas, dry cat food sometimes, fishflakes, apple, sometimes an orange.

 

[RoachGirlRen]

Definitely give some feedback on temperature & diet as these can be significant factors. Also, how long have you had them? Hissers are one of the slower breeders; it takes them 60-70 days after breeding, depending on temperature, to produce nymphs. Lateralis breed like... well, roaches, and dubia, although slower than egg layers, still are quicker breeders than hissers (around 30 days if my memory serves me). So it makes sense if you got these colonies recently and they have been productive while the hissers have not.

I find that hissers tend to be slow starting but then never stop; I had some five year old females that were mixed with males only a few times and still produced viable young years after initial insemination.

 

[Goose]

I have their enclosure around 83 degrees with plastic wrap over the top to increase humidity. I feed them mostly cat food, fish flakes, and potato. Their substrate is shredded coconut husks.

 

[james]

hissers

I produce a lot of hissers and have very little humidity at all. I just keep them in 5 gallon buckets with vents on both sides and feed them dry cat and dog food with steady supply of apples, carrots, and water crystals. They are slower breeding than those other species but usually have more babies per ootheca.

 

[Goose]

Thanks for the input everybody!

 

[Galapoheros]

Me too, I don't cover to hold in humidity. I was told years ago that they are a "tropical rainforest" roach but they aren't. I keep mine dry but add a little to the substrate when it's almost all dry. I don't even give mine a source of water besides the veggies and fruit.

 

[Matt K]

They come from areas that are a little dry but fairly humid. Lots of rocks, tree cactus, acacia trees, and large grassess. I have a pic around here somewhere but cant find it right now.....will post it when I do....