What am I?

[james]

Just one of a handful of new species that will be ready later this year!!!
James
www.blaberus.com

 

[Randolph XX()]

Salganea sp. from Asia
similar to the Salganea i posted a while ago, or could be the same if u got this sp from roachman, i saw he has the Taiwanese sp listed in his site
both are wood eating roaches, prefer cooler temp and really rotten wood
males have wings

 

[james]

Nope

This is a picture of a male and female both without wings.
James
www.blaberus.com

 

[james]

How about another one!!!!

These are also males and females no wings!!!!
James
www.blaberus.com

 

[james]

Why stop now

A third new species also with no wings!!!
James
www.blaberus.com

 

[james]

OK you wanted wings!!

Both males and females have wings, but they are diggers none the less!!!
James
www.blaberus.com

 

[Scolopendra55]

Wow!! Those are awesome James!! Are they going to be for sale soon?

 

[james]

Maybe by Aracnocon!!!

Give me a little time to get them establish. Only bad part is they where the most expensive roaches I've ever bought besides rhinos.
James

 

[Randolph XX()]

the second nymphs and the very last sp are Panesthia sp, possibly P.angustipennis
are they Cb stocks?cuz my friend back home told me they are not easy to breed

 

[Ecilious]

Stop tempting me, I have no more space!

 

[nomad85]

Is the last one Panesthia angustipennis spadica?

 

[Digby Rigby]

We have sold both Panesthia angustipennis angustipennes and spadica. They are a fairly social roach that take along time to mature. It is not that they are difficult to breed they just take a long time. The spadica are more resolute in their preference for rotting wood as opposed to the angustipennes which will also eat other things. The spadica are also smaller. In fact the angustipennes angustipennis is the original "Orange spot roach" not Blaptica dubia. I do not have personal experience with these roaches but get this info from the people I buy from and the people we sell to. In fact most of what we sell we dont get a chance to see in person. As far as I know we are the only ones to have sold any in the U.S. in the past couple years.

Your world phamous roach broker among other things

Digby Rigby

DigbyRigby@exoticfeeders.com

 

[Randolph XX()]

my experience with WC ones from the mountain is they are very sensitive to temperature change
most of them just died when i brought them outta the mountain, probably the "gut's fauna" died out

 

[John J Starr Jr]

Glass climbers

Just one of a handful of new species that will be ready later this year!!!
James
www.blaberus.com

Hey James,

So which ones climb glass or do not climb glass?

The smaller second ones next to the U.S. quarters look pretty darn cool, what genus and species are they?
Do they climb glass?

So far the origional 150 dubia that I got from you in July of 2005 are doing OK. I now have over 1000 very small nymphs in a seperate aquarium that are growing into my dubia super colony, over 200 adult dubia females and 200 dubia males that are currently breeding, and about 500 large dubia nymphs at 1.5_to_2.0 inches long that I have feeding off to a female Dragon. Yep, the Dragon people will scream because she eats such large insects but then again she will easily chomp down 10 a day which is more food than a hundred 1/2 inch crickets would be. THIS IS WITH NO PROBLEMS. I take advice from many of the Dragon people with less than a grain of salt. Owe, this Dragon is named Cricket and Cricket will NOT even touch crickets anymore period. After waking up from a very long brumation about two months ago she eats and eats the giant nymphs until she is so fat that she can barely move. She looks almost like an oblong balloon. This is every day. Once in while she will scarf down a dozen dubia.

All of my Blaberus species are doing great as well.

John J Starr Jr

 

[Stylopidae]

What are those?

It's not clear to me what they are by reading the thread. How big are they? They look massive!

 

[Randolph XX()]

they're Panesthia sp poss angustipennis spadica, about 4

 

[nomad85]

John,
Depending on the age of your dragon you might want to cut down on the amount of roaches your feeding her, If its an adult they should get more vegetable matter(every day) than insects(1-2 times a week). If its under 6 months, then thats perfect

 

[John J Starr Jr]

Thanks

John,
Depending on the age of your dragon you might want to cut down on the amount of roaches your feeding her, If its an adult they should get more vegetable matter(every day) than insects(1-2 times a week). If its under 6 months, then thats perfect

Thanks Nomad. Yea, I know. Right now she/Cricket is over a year old but when she was about seven months old and 17 inches long, which is large for her age at that time, she went into a very long brumation. I fully expect her to easily exceed 20 inches and maybe hit 24 inches this year. She is on her last massive growing cycle which is why she is eating so much protein. My other two Dragons which both have gone into brumation this May, kind of odd but they stayed awake all winter, have allready cut way down on their protein and mostly eat vegatables. Those two are much older and both are over twenty inches long.

I only wish that I had started roach colonies when I first got my Dragons and then I would have saved $$$hundreds$$$ in cricket money.:wall:

You can view their pictures at the below links if you want to.

Thanks,

jjsjr
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[james]

Roaches

They are a species of Panesthia but I don't really know if anybody knows which ones. There are pictures on the web of Panesthia, but the are in Australia and Japan and mine came from a completely different country. Also some of the males have wings and females don't, but mine both sexes either do or don't have wings. This is what is so fun about roaches. 4,000 species and so many that are unknown. Here are some of the pictures I found from other countries.
James

 

[Randolph XX()]

Hi James
as far as i know, they're asian-pacific ,even in vietnam, some females of some sps do have wings but drop wings like termites