surprise--

[Veneficus]

I got quite a surprise when I fed my rather, large parahybana girl a B. dubia for dinner. I had no idea the roach was pregnant, so when I checked in on her, I discovered the roach's abdomen had ruptured and all of these babies were falling out. Ugh! I thought only fellow T lovers could appreciate this--

 

[sparular]

That is simultaneously hilarious, heartbreaking, and fascinating. Did the T gobble kids for dessert later or did it just ignore them?

 

[penny'smom]

Hope you have some slings to feed those little roaches to.

 

[sick4x4]

haha, i was taken back as well when this happens to me. though i usally do a good job spotting soon to be moms, i do occasionally get egg pods popping out....:wall:

wayne

 

[bakaichi]

hahah simlilar thing happne to me tongiht..but i wasnt feeding the T

i was cleaning my Roach tank..

and i think i freak the mom and made her release all her babes

 

[Rochelle]

RUN, CHILDREN! RUUUNNNNN!!!

 

[7mary3]

If you really want a shocker, try having it happen to a rat that you're feeding to your python.... THAT was ummmm.......... "special".

 

[Rochelle]

OMG....
I want to poke out my mind's eye.......

 

[loyaluntodeath]

LoL I wish i had seen that in person! never had that happen to me shockingly, the parahybana ignored the babies did she not?

~Paul

 

[sick4x4]

If you really want a shocker, try having it happen to a rat that you're feeding to your python.... THAT was ummmm.......... "special".

wow dude, that took me back some...its like that classic old film "orca"

 

[Moltar]

That's loco. I'm amazed how big those little premies are. I always figured there was a tinier nymph stage i just never saw because they were under the substrate. Apparently not, no wonder some o' those females are so chunky!

 

[Cocoa-Jin]

I usually try to feed gravid roaches to ,y T to thin out the population. I started 25 member colony of lobster roaches for one G. Rosea(yeah I know). The goal was to start feeding them immediatly to keep their population down...but the T fasted for 7months when they came in(just my luck). Ive done my best to keep the temps down but the colony is easily a couple of a hundred strong now.

The last thing I want to see is a one roach crumble and turn into a bunch of smaller roaches scattering to the wind...too much like a bad dream or B horror flick.

 

[WARPIG]

Roach pinata;P

PIG-

 

[Veneficus]

She ignored the babies while she was eating; however, I have no idea what happened to them because they are not there now. Either they burrowed into the substrate or she ate them. I did see where she dug into the substrate area, and moved aside the dirt so maybe she did eat them. There is no way I was going to try and get them out--she's an aggressive (but fun) T. Any movement I make towards her home and she starts kicking hairs and trying to attack.