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Well, we rescued a pair of hissing cockroaches from our local pet store a while ago. They said they were both male, because the place they get them from only sends out one sex to prevent people from breeding them. Ha. That was a laugh.
One of them looked especially fat and my husband and I both thought the same thing. She's gravid. So we got online and found out how to sex them and sure enough she was a female and the other was a male. We have had them for about a month now.
Martha (that's big mamma's name) kept getting fatter and fatter, so we took extra special care of her. I misted her tank day before yesterday, but was in a hurry and didn't inspect things. Well, my husband went to put fresh food in a few min. ago and saw what appeared to be "rollie pollies" in her tank. Then it hit him, BABIES!!
Hurray! we counted twenty live ones. They are so cute. But, we have never had baby hissers so do any of you have any advice for us? We took them out of mamma's tank and put them in a deli cup with a little substrate and one of those "orange cubes" from flukers that we feed our crickets. We were afraid they would drown if we gave them water.
Just had to share. here are a few pics.
Ali
One of them looked especially fat and my husband and I both thought the same thing. She's gravid. So we got online and found out how to sex them and sure enough she was a female and the other was a male. We have had them for about a month now.
Martha (that's big mamma's name) kept getting fatter and fatter, so we took extra special care of her. I misted her tank day before yesterday, but was in a hurry and didn't inspect things. Well, my husband went to put fresh food in a few min. ago and saw what appeared to be "rollie pollies" in her tank. Then it hit him, BABIES!!
Hurray! we counted twenty live ones. They are so cute. But, we have never had baby hissers so do any of you have any advice for us? We took them out of mamma's tank and put them in a deli cup with a little substrate and one of those "orange cubes" from flukers that we feed our crickets. We were afraid they would drown if we gave them water.
Just had to share. here are a few pics.
Ali