Roaches Question.Help

[Thiscordia]

Sup guys, I recently bought 100 B. lateralis and 20 G. portentosa and i'm thinking of buying some B. dubias is it possible to keep m all together in a 50 gal tank? I'm new into roaches so i rather ask before i make a mistake.
Thanks

 

[cacoseraph]

i had Mad hissers, lobsters, orangeheads, and crap, one more... some Blaberus i think. oh discoids.

basically stuff was breeding till i added the orangeheads, which seemed to eat all my hisser nymphs in about two days. so then i had the other three together. it works ok, but the most fecund species will eventually overrun the tank.

so i tried to seperate 1000-1500 roaches... missed some lobster nymphs... so amusingly enough, my hisser tank actually still has more lobsters than hissers (by count, certainly not by mass)

BUT

for you situation i would be concerned that since the lateralis lay oothecae instead of everting for internal development that the ooth might get eaten.

 

[Thiscordia]

i would be concerned that since the lateralis lay oothecae instead of everting for internal development that the ooth might get eaten.

I was afraid of that too so what i have been doing is that the ooths i pick m up and put m into small deli cups inside the tank for protection i hope it works. I just have picked up 2 so far and i just got the B. lateralis on sat so i hope it works.

 

[cacoseraph]

I was afraid of that too so what i have been doing is that the ooths i pick m up and put m into small deli cups inside the tank for protection i hope it works. I just have picked up 2 so far and i just got the B. lateralis on sat so i hope it works.

in my pure lateralis colony i used to pick up the ooth and hatch them out in other containers... when i stopped my colony became a heck of a lot less productive. i think the ooth have a crummy hatch rate in my colony cage cuz the humidity is too low for them. i think i might start harvesting ooth again. plus, i can't see the floor anymore for all the eggcases

edit: actually, i was just thinking... i have a bucket i keep roaches in as i'm feeding them out... it ends up having a mixture of all my species in it from time to time, and i've had lateralis lay ooth in there, and then the ooth hatch out. but again, not as many as when i baby the ooth

 

[Thiscordia]

So it's good idea to separate the ooths from the roaches then . Cool there's a show on sat. at the Anaheim convention center and Double D's is gonna be there so i think i might get a few more lateralis and some dubias.

 

[Galadriel]

Hey, thanks for bringing that up! I started colonies of dubia and lateralis not long ago. The lateralis started dropping egg cases a few days ago and I've been pulling them so I don't have to try to catch the newly hatched little buggers in the huge bin. If puling them will also cause more laying, all the better. Glad to know I'm on the right track with roaches =)

 

[cacoseraph]

Hey, thanks for bringing that up! I started colonies of dubia and lateralis not long ago. The lateralis started dropping egg cases a few days ago and I've been pulling them so I don't have to try to catch the newly hatched little buggers in the huge bin. If puling them will also cause more laying, all the better. Glad to know I'm on the right track with roaches =)

i don't think pulling them necesarily makes them lay more, i just think when i kept the ooth in a small tupperware with elevated humidity levels more ooth hatched and each ooth yielded more nymphs.

and yeah, catching tiny nymphs is a pain, they are ungodly fast. i got mine a year ago or so... this was my first summer feeding them out... the nymphs were fast in fall, winter, and spring... and started to absolutely blur in the summer... i was actually worried they were goign to take too long to wrangle to be useful, but i guess i got used to it. i still miss 3x as much when i try to tweeze them as any other species

 

[Galadriel]

Hmmm. Have you tried cooling them for a few minutes in the fridge before you try to catch them to slow them down? Could at least be worth a try, yeah?

 

[cacoseraph]

i'm sure that would work

i'm also sure if my room mate ever caught me doing it he would make me eat all my bugs =P

 

[Thiscordia]

i just got my first roaches about 3 weeks ago (G.portentosa) and this past sat i got my B. lateralis so no babies yet. I'm gonna give it a try with a spoon that's how i pick up my slings but if it doesn't work.........the fridge will be jajaja