Madagascan hissing cockroaches

greenfiremajick

Arachnoknight
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I just bought 8 of these Madagascan roaches last week, and they are breeding like crazy!! They just produced aprox 100 babies in the last 4 days!! What I did was put a line of petroleum jelly around the sides of the tub and they don't climb it at all....They are really good food for the scorps and T's!!!
 

Slizarus

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You're.... kidding?
Meanie... I have 10 adults.. and about 40 babies.. and I've had them about a month and a half.. you must have gotten some nice and pregnant females
 

Slizarus

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And to your question in the other post..

They can live up to 6 years, though on rare rare occasions I picture there might be longer
 

ghost_tomb

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greenfiremajick said:
I just bought 8 of these Madagascan roaches last week, and they are breeding like crazy!! They just produced aprox 100 babies in the last 4 days!! What I did was put a line of petroleum jelly around the sides of the tub and they don't climb it at all....They are really good food for the scorps and T's!!!


Hehehe I hate to say this but you were very lucky, normally they take about 2 or more months to have babies, they are very slow breeding.
You must have had 2 pregnant females maybe 3, but you'll probably loose allot of the babies. I have in the past, I think it was because it was too dry for them in my 30*c tank:(

But they make extremely cool pets, be careful when feeding adults to t's as I’ve heard stories of t's breaking there fangs on them.
 

dangerprone69

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Yes be careful feeding them to t's. The best time to feed them off is following a molt, since it takes them a few hours for their shell to harden. They do breed like crazy, and I find them extremely interesting little bugs to watch. I'm amazed by the diversity of color I have in my colony.
 
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