Indian cockroach (Pycnoscelus indicus) advice

[Dabugboi]

Hi all! I am interested in getting some Indian roaches (P. indicus) and I would like some advice or experience with this as I have never kept them before. i know adults can climb and they cant fly (thankfully.) I would be keeping them as my "medium" feeder roach as my lobsters are my large ones and I plan on getting Paratemnopteryx coouloniana as my small to tiny feeder. (my options are limited because you can only get native or commonly found if introduced species here in Australia)

Thanks,
DaBugBoi

 

[mantisfan101]

A couple inches of substrate, ventilation, a vaseline barrier, and that's it. Toss in food a couple times every week and they'll come out in droves and swarm all over it.

 

[Dabugboi]

Ah! thank you so much, i need to find out if roach crossing ships to Australia before I can get them but it says on roach crossing "adult males may be able to fly" I take it that means they can glide? because dubia males cant fly and can glide, and it says on RC dubias males "may be able to fly" I hope they can only glide because I don't want flying cockroaches when I open their colony.

 

[Dabugboi]

Also, do they make good feeders for spiders? i have 1 female Beregama aurea with a 14 cm legspan, would it be good or would lobsters be better?

 

[mantisfan101]

Roach crossing is un the US so they won’t ship internationally. The only roaches that I’ve seen that can actually fly are green banana roaches

 

[Dabugboi]

Oh, are you sure they don't ship internationally because there Is no other place to get those roaches? and a lot of roaches CAN fly, but just don't.

 

[Hisserdude]

Roach crossing is un the US so they won’t ship internationally. The only roaches that I’ve seen that can actually fly are green banana roaches

They ship internationally on occasion... At least they used to.