Texas Blonde's roach pics

[Texas Blonde]

What is left of my Blaberus craniifer colony. Unfortunatly most of them went the way of my "fusca" but these last few look pretty good.

 

[Texas Blonde]

Here are the real Eublaberus distani. :8o

 

[bugmankeith]

Xelda I often see my blaberus poke their heads and antennae out of the substrate, they do appear to be checking out whats going on, it's funny. After I mist them they usually do that, and if I put food in that's when they come out of hiding to eat.

 

[T.Raab]

Hi,

I picked up a pair of Hormetica subcincta at Arachncon. They are just gorgeous.

oh yes, they are!

 

[arachnocat]

Those are beautiful pics. I really want to make a roach display (with dead roaches) to show all the different kinds. People don't realize there are that many species of roaches and that most of them are really pretty.

 

[IguanaMama]

This is my largest Byrsotria fumigata female. I call her Big Mama, lol. I once put her in a empty container with a Blaberus fusca for a size comparison, and then forgot I left them together. She killed the fusca and ate its head.

UGH UGH UGH!!! Do they eat other roaches? SHEEEEEET!!! I put them in a community tank to save space!!! UGH UGH UGH!!!! I noticed some fancy hissers missing and less hisser babies than I thought I should have. UGH UGH UGH!!! Plus I have some gorgeous O. orientalis with what looks like bites taken out of the sides. They must not taste good. UGH UGH UGH!!! I'll have to dig them all up and take them out, I feel like a fool. Not only that, but I have a community tank with all live bearers and I found a bunch of little red egg cases :? I am soooooooooo confused, it is so not funny.

Nice pictures Sky, BTW!

 

[arachnocat]

Wow. I didn't know roaches attacked eachother. That's interesting.

 

[Israel2004]

Well after seeing that Sky keeps her, Eublaberus prosticus in dirt, I've moved my colony to dirt, maybe now they'll do better. I've had them for 2 years now and they have barely stayed at about 100 total colony size.

 

[PeriplanetaAmer]

Nice roaches.

isnt it Lucihormetica subcincta, not Hormetica subcincta? they are listed as Lucihormetica subcincta on the bcg list.

http://www.bcg-online.com/media/BCG-List.pdf

It´s true, in Europe is Lucihormetica subcinta. It´s the correct way I think.

These are the best roaches to me, they are very beautiful!

Well, in the US you call Blatta lateralis and in Europe we call it as Shellfordela tartara.

Shellfordela tartara link: http://www.animalfreak.nl/redrunners1_groot.jpg
Blatta lateralis link: http://www.livefoodshop.co.uk/forum/uploadgal/1152216601/gallery_3292_3_269192.jpg

As you can see, the same sp.

Wow. I didn't know roaches attacked eachother. That's interesting.

I know if you put different roaches in the same tank they eat the other sp.´s ootheca becouse of competition.