OK these b. lats are starting to gross me out

[Kathy]

Kathy,

Send them to me.

You know you want to.

:barf::barf::barf::barf::barf:

 

[xhexdx]

:barf::barf::barf::barf::barf:

The feeling is mutual, sweetheart. You and BatGirl make such a cute couple. :liar:

 

[Kathy]

The feeling is mutual, sweetheart. You and BatGirl make such a cute couple. :liar:

LOL, awww and I was just going to pm you and ask for your address. Oh well.

 

[rustym3talh3ad]

LOL, awww and I was just going to pm you and ask for your address. Oh well.

haha, well i asked for them first. why am i not getting asked for my address?

 

[Warren Bautista]

Well I am giving some away to Warren when I send him some c. sculpts.

:worship: .

 

[Kathy]

haha, well i asked for them first. why am i not getting asked for my address?

I don't want to break any rules by having this turn into a thread for giving away roaches, I know it belongs in the classifieds or personal PM. Sorry.

 

[pwilson5]

i will also have to agree with pwilson5...arizonians are weird. hahaha. just kidding...but no really, yeah they smell and yeah they are fast but thats why god invented the refrigerator...well for slowing down roaches and storing hella good deli cold cuts. but anyway.

thats not very nice saying thos things about kathy and her fellow arizonians.. lol

 

[Crysta]

i love b lats!! they are so fun, and the babies are cute. My feeders never stinked, the only time they would make a smell is when they put that sticky defensive stuff on my fingers but that's it. I love the females deep purple color, and they are like crazy crickets and dont burrow to hide from death, its funny to watch them run into
the t's mouth.

oh i miss having feeders. too bad i dont have any

 

[Kathy]

Centipede freak, are you not allowed to have b. lats where you live? I wonder why mine stink and so many ppl say they do not. I make sure it stays clean, I remove any dead ones, there is no substrate. When you kept yours, how did you keep them? I have mine in a big tub with a few air holes at the top, do you think there is not enough air circulation?

Paul -

 

[Crysta]

I was 11 when I first got them, I was told they where legal and my 11 year old mind believed them. And then I turned 16 and discovered they where illegal so i killed them off. Poor guys

defiantly not enough air circulation, just take the cover off, and that should be fine, that's how I had them setup anyways. To keep in some humidity, just put a heatpad under or on the side of the aquarium, and a biggish water-dish with pebbles. Or a damp paper towel, just make sure it isn't touching food items. I find this keeps up the humidity enough, or you could add some moist sphagnum moss.

But since you dont want them breeding anymore, just take away all humidity source and the eggies shouldnt hatch. (Except for vegies)

Maybe I just dont find they stink... lol

 

[Kathy]

Thanks, probably not enough air like you said. I reduced the colony to a manageable level now so that will help too. I just cleaned it all out and fresh everything too. How I spent my morning. lol. thanks for your info!

 

[whitewolf]

Kathy have you been feeding cat food? Only ask because it seemed like when me and the holy toast cut the cat food from their diet the ammonia smell went away. I don't know if that was the actual cause but it did just disappear after that. I totally cleaned out the bin thinking I would just slowly kill them off if it didn't go away and put them on a strict fruit only (mostly 1/4ed oranges) diet. I don't smell anything anymore from them. Now they are actually my favorite feeders.

 

[Crysta]

ops I didnt think about what you were feeding them haha

you can replace cat food with penuts. Just put the penuts/almonds/cashews in the blender, it makes a fine/crunchy powder they like that ^^ You can also mix it with avacado. Sometimes if they dont get enough protien they might try eating eachothers wings so becareful (happened to me) but roaches can live on anything hehe so it doesnt really matter, i just like stuff with high protien for my tarantula/reptiles sake.

 

[Treynok]

I feed mine low grade dollar general dog food and the occasional fruit scrap, try to find the one that had the highest protein content and that was it, plus no colorings or anything added. Mine smell too, but they are nowhere near as bad as say even 10 crickets. If I want to thin them out, I stop misting the tub I keep em in. If I don't spray, the oothes (I guess that's right) will not hatch. It never fails for me thinning em out, I still keep the water crystals in and a few near those still hatch but I end up with a ton that never hatch. That is up here in Pennsylvania, and I still have them molt successfully that might be harder to balance in Arizona though :8o

By the way, the C. sculp you sent me last year are doing awesome, since I sent a message other week I had 3 more give birth and 2 more look fat enough for it yet. I only have 2 adult males from what I saw and like 15 adult females right now, but started with 3 females 1 male. With juvies and babies I'm probably pushing 50+ now if I could ever find em all in that huge chunk of corkbark. ;P

 

[Kathy]

I will have to switch to dog food, that may make a difference on the odor. I dropped the colony down to about 80 over the weekend and gave the rest away to people. T
Treynok, that is just amazing about those scorpions. I don't even want to think of how many I would have had running around my yard this summer if I did not send all those out to people last year. It would have to have been at least 1,000. So far this year I have only found 13.

 

[Crysta]

forgot to mention - chicken feed. yum ... it's been so long since i had them i temporarily forgot what they ate lol

 

[Raventears]

Maybe...?

Hi, would you consider donating some of your extras to our invert zoo? I need roaches to eliminate our cricket cost. Thank you for considering us! Our site url is below:
http://ourinvertzoo.webs.com/
Thanks,
Keeley Leigh Muncrief
CHS AgScience Teacher/FFA advisor

 

[EightLeggedFrea]

The only thing I don't like about lats is their speed - makes 'em bit of a pain in the butt to grab with the magic tongs :wall:. 500 roaches isn't really all that large, at least nor to me as I've got like 20 Ts in addition to a leopard gecko that would eat lats all day and pyxie frog who's of course always hungry.

 

[Moltar]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that you can slow their breeding to a crawl by dropping the temps a few degrees.

 

[Wlapkiewicz]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that you can slow their breeding to a crawl by dropping the temps a few degrees.

Yes, that is true. But since Kathy lives in Arizona and at this time of the year it is very hot. I think that other measures of limiting B. lateralis population are much quicker.