Seems like evolutionary adaptation for certain terrains. Take your average monster truck and put it on a winding mountain road. Eventually it ends up on it's back with it's feet in the air, helplessly squirming around.
I think that there's actually some problem with oatmeal they live in. Not only that they can't get up, some of them have died. I guess it was a bad experiment for me.
I've been using chicken feed. I had some left over for crickets. I wouldn't think oatmeal would be a problem though. Mealworms are usually sold in an oat or bran medium.
Well, both bran and oat are the only food I don't give to my roaches. And I've noticed that on the side of their container where I keep fruits and vegetables (they're laying on a paper towel) beetles look much better, moving fine, no twitching. Either the dust from bran make their breathing harder or there might be pesticides or something
It most likely wasn’t an issue to do with you, sometimes the beetles just don’t survive long.
I don't even know right now should I give up the colony and repurpose their container for anything else or try again?
Well I have a colony for a month and I only see dead beetles so there's obviously something wrong
At least your roaches are going well. Roaches are effective feeders for pretty much anything. I get the same results with lateralis roaches that you're get with mealworms. Just raise whichever feeder does best for you.
Once I started seeing babies, I separated the beetles from the pack. I heard that they sometimes eat their own eggs.
I've seen one of my G.Centurio roaches eating the head of its molting sibling. I wasn't fast enough to save it
Savage little scoundrels we raise, don't we? Why don't we keep cats and dogs like normal people.I've seen one of my G.Centurio roaches eating the head of its molting sibling. I wasn't fast enough to save it
I think you should try again. I had to restart my Darkling Beetle Colony and the first try didn’t work out but the second one did, and now I should have tiny mealworms very soon. Sometimes it takes a little bit to get a colony up and running and that’s okay
Sometimes when I feed my Ts I hear how my hissers fight for females and I get so mesmerized by their actions that I forget what I was doingSavage little scoundrels we raise, don't we? Why don't we keep cats and dogs like normal people.
So much personalities in such little bodies