Macropanesthia rhinoceros

[Nikos]

just some photos of a juvenile pair

the enclosure.
substrate is a mix of fine sand, peat moss and dead leaves.

 

[NevularScorpion]

Nice I hope you breed them successfully we need more of this in the hobby

 

[fraxinus]

Macropaesthia rhinoceros

Macropanesthia rhinoceros

 

[Nikos]

here are some recent photos.
this roach is aprox 3 years old.

can you help me sex this one?

I feed them almost exclusively dried oak leaves.
have tried chestnut leaves too, but they didn't seem to like them

 

[cacoseraph]

are oak species found all that much in Australia?

 

[Nikos]

can't risk feed local eucalyptus.
too many reports on dead roaches that were fed eucalyptus spp from outside australia.

they do very well on oak.
quercus coccifera is also well accepted and aprreciated.

 

[Nikos]

a few of my new group feeding on a piece of pear

 

[Spepper]

Aren't these hard to find? ::