What's buggin' you? Cockroaches? :)

drfish · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:14 am Post subject:

Also, check here

http://www.faunology.co.uk/shop/customer/search.php?substring=cockroach

Englishtegu · Valued Member Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Posts: 111 Location: UK

That sounds good!!!

beardiedragon · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:17 pm Post subject:

those are not Craniifers (death head). Maybe discoidalis (false death head). Craniifer has jet black wings.

Heres a few pics you guys may like

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punky · Member Joined: Apr 13, 2005 Posts: 62 Location: Austin, TX

eew ew ew ew ew! :shudder: roaches are the only things that creep me out!!
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Englishtegu · Valued Member Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Posts: 111 Location: UK

beardiedragon

To me that is a beautiful sight! Any chance you could put a couple of hundred of those in a box and mail them to me?

Mark.

Diegar · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:46 am Post subject:

I bought 100 roaches online yesterday and they are being shipped out on monday.. I CAN'T WAIT!!!
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beardiedragon · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:23 am Post subject:

I am so low on roaches, I have not had any extra for a few months now. You guys are lucky over there that you have access to locusts
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Englishtegu · Valued Member Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Posts: 111 Location: UK

No worries Beardiedragon; its got to be easier to find some over here. I saw tons at the Terraristika show in Hamm, Germany back in March, but I've never seen them in the UK. Wish I'd bought some then...

Don't your livefood suppliers breed locusts? They are very easy to get here, but not particularly cheap. It seems that beardies do really well on them. I don't know whether they prefer locusts, but they go mad for them. Could just be that they get bored with crickets?

I've only tried them with my tegs once. They ate them, but didn't go mad for them like they do king mealworms and large black crix.

Cheers,
Mark.

Englishtegu · Valued Member Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Posts: 111 Location: UK

Drfish;

I've found a roach breeder in the UK, if you're interested. I've ordered 120 Blaptica dubia and 60 Blaberus giganteus to start me off...

Let me know if you'd like his contact details. He also has a few other species.

Englishtegu.

drfish · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah cool, can you pm me the details mate.

Ta muchly.

Englishtegu · Valued Member Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Posts: 111 Location: UK

Drfish

I've sent you the details via a pm.

Mark.

Slizarus · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject:

Beardie, what you have are a Fusca x Craniifer Hybrid.. a very proliferous little bugger.. which actually seem to fare better than either of the 2 species..

It was popular a few years back and sold as Death Heads to the public..

Fusca are the Dwarf Cave roaches.. and craniifer.. well, you know.

I breed 3 species..
Hissers, Discoid, Lobster.. and I'm dying to attain more.. they're beautiful insects
Especially the blaberus genus.. I want to attain pure Fusca, Craniifer, and Giganteus (Giant Cave Roach, longest roach alive)
Also Parabolus (Black head) and a few others..

Hissers rock though

Lobsters.. not so much.. ugh

I bought my Discoids from Clay Davenport at Arbreptiles.com He's a bit pricier.. in fact, a lot pricier.. but he gave me far more than what I had ordered, and I'm really happy with my order.

Lobsters from a few different sources (They serve as gecko food and garbage disposal now)

And hissers from Rep... er.. something.. I bought Giants and Black Hissers from her at a good price

I began in March of this year.. and now I have thousands of the buggers, but eh, I'm happy.

And being bugged by them?

Hm?
No, not at all.. in fact..

I had to try.. A wise herper I once knew (He worked at Petco..)
said this "I wouldn't feed my reptiles anything I wouldn't eat myself"
Now.. granted, I haven't tried mice or rat.. and I'm not sure if I plan to.
But I was watching the travel channel.. Insect candy came up.. and I decided, why not?

Oh.. I gagged.. but I ate it all!.. and promptly fainted.

Rick · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject:

I have hissers, discoids, orange headed and orange spotted. I think I like the hissers for their size but I think the discoid is an all around good roach.

I get my roaches from James at Blaberus.com. I am very happy with the quality, shipping and the professionalism.

Plus, if you tell him you are a member of The Tegu Community he will also send you some freebies.

Rick
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