Tiger hisser hybrid?

[tarantulas118]

I have a tiny hissing cockroach that molted last month and is now looking like a hybrid of a tiger hisser mixed with something else
1. When I first got it
2. When it molted

3. Now

 

[CutThroat Kid]

Having just watched, 'Bones and All' a movie about cannibalism, I find myself a bit sussed out by what looks like the blood under your fingernails. Have you been consuming human flesh my boy?

Cool murdered-out Roach!

 

[tarantulas118]

Have you been consuming human flesh my boy?

why don’t you come to my house and find out

 

[CutThroat Kid]

why don’t you come to my house and find out

Aren't you 13?

 

[tarantulas118]

Aren't you 13?

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Correct

 

[Hisserdude]

The "striping" there is actually just the pale intersegmental membranes, visible on all well fed/super gravid hissers. You can see on the actual abdominal tergites (segments) themselves, it's just red. So, not indicative of being hybrids with Tigers specifically (though they're still likely random portentosa mutt hybrids).

 

[tarantulas118]

The "striping" there is actually just the pale intersegmental membranes, visible on all well fed/super gravid hissers. You can see on the actual abdominal tergites (segments) themselves, it's just red. So, not indicative of being hybrids with Tigers specifically (though they're still likely random portentosa mutt hybrids).

Any idea why it completely changed color

 

[Hisserdude]

Any idea why it completely changed color

They'll often go through multiple color changes as nymphs.

 

[Isopods others]

I read that hybridising roaches isn't a very good idea since it often dulls their colours,

 

[tarantulas118]

I read that hybridising roaches isn't a very good idea since it often dulls their colours,

yeah I bought it and I didn’t find out it was hybridized until later

 

[Isopods others]

It's very cute regardless, what have you named it?

 

[tarantulas118]

It's very cute regardless, what have you named it?

I’m still thinking, I have one other roach named Carl, this one I’m almost sure is a female so do you got any ideas

 

[Isopods others]

Pulcherrimus! Latin finally good for something meaning the most beautiful or very beautiful, you could even say Pulcherrimus de animalis, the most beautiful of animals
Other suggestions include-
Suetonius paulinus a great commander
Celer- quick- close to celery too
Ira -Iratus- anger- angry
Iuno - with an I
Solus
Durus - Hard harsh-

 

[tarantulas118]

This her and Carl now btw

 

[Isopods others]

Do you keep them in a glass or acrylic tank?
If acrylic how do you heat them?

 

[tarantulas118]

I don’t have glass or acrylic I keep them in a plastic container used for carrying cakes which I modified and they’re currently thriving in it for heating, the little table there on has a house heater vent under neath it so they get all there heat from that. they each have there own hide the little one lives in the egg carton hide and Carl lives in the cork bark, although every once in awhile I find them cuddling under the same hide, I really do love these amazing little things

 

[Isopods others]

I bet, they sure seem great, what interesting behaviours have you seen?

 

[tarantulas118]

I bet, they sure seem great, what interesting behaviours have you seen?

Let me think for a bit I’ve had for almost 2 months

 

[tarantulas118]

I bet, they sure seem great, what interesting behaviours have you seen?

Alright so they just act like normal bugs most of the time but one thing I’ve noticed is that they sometimes switch there hides basically Carl is in the little ones and little one is in carls, they stay in that hide for a couple days and then go back to there original one and stay there for a long while. I haven’t kept these guys for long so I havent seen much. I guess the only other one is that Carl seems to “enjoy” handling! I get him and he never hisses, doesn’t tuck His head under his head plate and is very curious and adventurous and he’ll basically freely crawl into your hand And everywhere, you really should get these for yourself

 

[Isopods others]

That is interesting, my invertebrates mainly eat and that is all