My current Lobster Roach Colony is now out of hand. The enclosure is too small for th enumbers, the Sumer Conditions have spawned a fruit fly infestation that is actually ggting worse this time around...generally they bloom for a few weeks and then die off when I keep the moisture down.
This year, they wont leave, the frass seems to be holding moisture this year and I dont have the means or need to expand into a larger set-up.
I need to collect a few specimens from the colony and start over, utilizing the same enlosure. My wife wont let me put the enclosure in the freezer, I cant use pesticides since I want to re-use the tank.
I was thinking of buying a block of dry ice and placing it on a platform inside the tank, then closing it off insdie another sealed container. I assume the cold and CO2 would do it quickly and "humanely". My biggest concern is the possibility of the glass breaking due to the cold. I could get another tank, but I dont want to run the risk of any survivors getting out and infesting the house or the ard...Im in Southern California, I cant let them get out, especially this time of year....they'd explode before I have any chance of the winter possibly knocking them out.
Anyway, I was looking for some advice. The conditions re just too far gone to salvage and their use as feeder stock becoming comprimised in my opnion.
This year, they wont leave, the frass seems to be holding moisture this year and I dont have the means or need to expand into a larger set-up.
I need to collect a few specimens from the colony and start over, utilizing the same enlosure. My wife wont let me put the enclosure in the freezer, I cant use pesticides since I want to re-use the tank.
I was thinking of buying a block of dry ice and placing it on a platform inside the tank, then closing it off insdie another sealed container. I assume the cold and CO2 would do it quickly and "humanely". My biggest concern is the possibility of the glass breaking due to the cold. I could get another tank, but I dont want to run the risk of any survivors getting out and infesting the house or the ard...Im in Southern California, I cant let them get out, especially this time of year....they'd explode before I have any chance of the winter possibly knocking them out.
Anyway, I was looking for some advice. The conditions re just too far gone to salvage and their use as feeder stock becoming comprimised in my opnion.