lateralis hydration requirements

[musihuto]

Does anyone thing that a bunch of lateralis in a room with ambient humidity at 50%, and hovering around 75 F/24 C, on a subtrate of coconut fibre, misted weekly or so, would need any water, assuming that they have a steady supply of carrots?

thanks!
- munis

 

[Dom]

No.
They won't really breed at those temps though, or at least very slowly. With a heat mat on the bottom if you get the temp up above 80F and better closer to 90F you'll get very fast reproduction.
Don't bother misting, it'll only cause problems. When I want to boost humidity I place a deli container with damp peat or coco fibre in the bin.

 

[Takumaku]

On the contrary, my bred extremely well with an ambient temperature of 60 degrees F, no misting. That is one of the reasons I got rid of them -- they bred too well at a temperature I thought was an extreme.

 

[unicron]

you shouldnt need to give them water, they should get all there water from the food that they eat. as long as you give them different fruits and vegies like carrots and apples and banana and stuff they should get all there water from there.

 

[Dom]

On the contrary, my bred extremely well with an ambient temperature of 60 degrees F, no misting. That is one of the reasons I got rid of them -- they bred too well at a temperature I thought was an extreme.

LOL Yeah they can breed very quickly. Mine won't breed at 60F (they'll lay the odd egg case) but will do better at 70F and fantastically at 80F.
Munis lives where he'll have to put the heat on for the next 6 months. The ambient humidity can drop to 20%. The roaches can deal with it but the eggs will dessicate and not hatch. Spring, summer and fall I just let the eggs hatch by themselves but in winter they need a bit of extra help in this neck of the woods.

 

[musihuto]

my humidifier's on 24/7... so humidity never falls below 40%..
and i have 100 adults at the moment, and only ~15 mouths to feed.
so i dont WANT super-productivity anyways!
i just wanted to make sure they don't all drop dead from thirst!

- munis

LOL Yeah they can breed very quickly. Mine won't breed at 60F (they'll lay the odd egg case) but will do better at 70F and fantastically at 80F.
Munis lives where he'll have to put the heat on for the next 6 months. The ambient humidity can drop to 20%. The roaches can deal with it but the eggs will dessicate and not hatch. Spring, summer and fall I just let the eggs hatch by themselves but in winter they need a bit of extra help in this neck of the woods.

 

[Dom]

my humidifier's on 24/7... so humidity never falls below 40%..
and i have 100 adults at the moment, and only ~15 mouths to feed.
so i dont WANT super-productivity anyways!
i just wanted to make sure they don't all drop dead from thirst!

- munis

100 will produce WAY more than you need- better to have to many than not enough though. Do you have a house humidifier or just one in your (bug) room? Our place is incredibly dry in the winter and I have a separate set-up for hatching the eggs.

 

[musihuto]

ummm... going into way too much detail:

i live with my mother, but my bedroom is quite large (like 400 sq.ft) with my own washroom and such, anyways, all my bugs are in my bedroom, i have a "heated bug area" for my scorps, a non-heated bug area for my millipedes (north american, not tropical species), and the roaches are sitting in rubbermaid container in an inconspicuous location (between two bookshelves, and kind of obstructed by a couch, but with one avenue of access from behind!) kind of hidden from plain view so that i will not have to explain them to everyone who might enter my room! anyways, i have what i think is a two gallon table-top humidifier which manages to keep my room at min. 40% even in the coldest winter months when the forced air heating is doing its worst!
showering with my bathroom door open also raises humidity by 10% or so for a few hours!

- munis

100 will produce WAY more than you need- better to have to many than not enough though. Do you have a house humidifier or just one in your (bug) room? Our place is incredibly dry in the winter and I have a separate set-up for hatching the eggs.