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Roach Building Almost Complete

Live Roaches

We have expanded our selection of isopods, adding Asian and Spanish Isopods to our farm.  We have also added many new rare, large and feeder roaches to our breeder groups.  Millipedes have also joined our farm and are happily breeding as I write this.  Pillipedes are my favorite.

In all, we have 68 types of roaches, 54 types of Isopods and 8 types of Millipedes.

To accomplish this, we had to add a small building for our live roaches.  It is still being organized but it is heated with 3 types of heat, electric, propane and oil, so that we have backup systems in the event of a storm or power failure.

We also hooked up a warning system that calls, emails and texts me when the temp and humidity levels fall below the perfect habitable zone for live roaches.  If you want to know more about that, just comment below or send me a message.

Here is a shot of the roach building.  The plants in the middle are Peace Lilies, which are great for removing ammonia from the air.  We will be getting more of these for this building and some of our other buildings.

I will list our list of species below.  I will do that because we are always looking for more.  If you have something, not on the list, please contact us with what you have with a price.  You can do that by clicking on the contact form on the left menu of this site.

The red highlighted names indicate that we are looking for more, even though we have active breeding colonies.  Most of these are not yet for sale but they will be coming online over the next few months so stop back in or join our mailing list to get informed as new species are added.

If you do not see it listed, that means that we do not have it and that we may want to buy what you have.  Send us what you have here.

Thank you!!

Ken

 

ROACHES

Roach Name Scientific Name
Orange head roaches Eulaberus posticus
Surinam roaches Pycnoscelus surinamensis
Horse shoe crab roaches Hemiblabera tenebricosa
Lobster roach Nauphoeta cinerea
Hissing roaches Gromphadorhina portentosa
Giant cave roach Blaberus giganteus
Six spotted roach Eublaberus distanti
Goblin roach Paratemnopteryx couloniana (red goblin roach)
Turkistan roach Blatta lateralis
Deaths head roach Blaberus craniifer
Ivory head roach Eublaberus ivory
Pantanal roach Eublaberus serranus
Oriental roach Blatta orientalis
Banana roach Panchlora nivea
Giant Green Banana Roach
Discoid roach Blaberus discoidalis
Pallid roach Phoetalia pallida
Red head roach Oxyhaloa deusta
Australian roach Periplaneta australasiae
Shadow roach Pycnoscelus surinamensis
Porcelain Roach Gyna lurida
Giant Peppered Roach Archimandrita tesselata
Harlequin Roach Neostylopyga Rhombifolia
Dusky Cave Roach Blaberus fusca
Hissing Roach Flat Aeluropoda insignis
Halloween Hissing Roach Elliptorhina javanica
Zebra Roaches Eurycotis Decipiens
African Bullet Roaches Blattidae sp.
Dubia Roaches Orange Spotted Roaches Blaptica Dubia
Rothi Giant Roach Byrsotria rothi
Wide Horned Hisser Gromphadorhina oblongata
Parcoblatta caudelli (Caudell’s wood roach)
Parcoblatta cf. americana (American wood roach)
chnoptera deropeltiformis “Ruby Red” (Dark woods roach)
Ischnoptera deropeltiformis Dark Woods Normal
Parcoblatta divisa (Southern wood roach)
Anallacta methanoides (Mauritian zebra-faced roach)
Gyna caffrorum (Chrome roach/Ghost porcelain roach)
Tiger Hissing Roach Gromphadorhina grandidieri
Firefly mimic
Pale-bordered Field Cockroach Pseudomops septentrionalis
Milk Roach Diploptera punctata Pacific Beetle Mimic
Taiwanese leaf mimic roach Rhabdoblatta formosana
Centurian Roach Gyna centurio
Hooded Roach compsodes schwarzi
Lobe loboptera decipiens
Ember Roach Pycnoscelus striatus
Question marks Therea olegrandjeani
Gisborne roach Drymaplaneta
Lobopterella dimidiatipes
Red and Black Roach Opisthoplatia orientalis
Florida Skunk Roach Eurycotis floridiana
No name Eurycotis Improcera
SAUSSURE’S GIANT SAND ROACH Polyphaga saussurei
The Hustler Roach Eurycotis Lixa
Warty Glowspot Lucihormetica verrucosa
Chinese Medicinal Roaches Eupolyphagea sinesis
Domino Roaches Therea petivereana
Ornate Velvet Roach Deropeltis paulinoi
Zebra Wood Roach Parcoblatta zebra=20 for 30$
Deropeltis
Extinct in the Wild Roach Simandoa conserfariam
Big black beetle mimic roaches Ergaula pilosa
Wingless Female Roach pycnoscelus femapterus
Arizona Wood Roach parcoblatta notha
Desert Wood Roach parcoblatta desertae
Orin’s Zebra Roach Dorylea orini
Little Penguins

ISOPODS

Common Name Scientific Name
Scaber Gray
Rollie Pollie Armadillidium Vulgare
Clown Montenegro
Nosy Peach Nastium
Orange Vigor Armadillidium Vulgare
 “High Yellow” Porcellio Ornatus
 “Dark South” Porcellio Ornatus
High Yellow Chocolate Porcellio Ornatus
Porcellio Hoffmanseggi
Porcellio Magnificus
Smooth Isopod Porcellio Laevis
Zebra Rollie Pollie Armadillidium Macalatum
Giant Canyon Isopod
Dwarf White
Purple Isopods
Dwarf Gray Stripped
Rathkii
Skirted Isopod Onicus Assellius
PIBALD Onicus Assellius
Convexus
Flowery Blue Isopods  Floria
Powdery Orange PP
Powdery Blue pp
N.  Cristas
Dwarf Ventillio Parvus
Agabiformius lentus
Granulatum
A. Sordidium “Punta Cana”
Sevilla
Ligia Pallasii
Fast Isopods ATLANTOSCIA FLORIDANA
Sp. Carpet
High Yellow Porcellio Haasi
A. dentiger:
Hylo/Trichoniscus sp.
Picopod Isopoda sp. “Picopod”
Florida Isopoda sp. “Florida”
White Out rathkii “White Out”:
Pumpkin Pod T. rathkii “Pumpkin Pod”
V. arizonicus:
Nosy Normal Nastium
Versicolor Armadillidium
Thai Isopoda sp. “Thai”
Corycream Armadillidum corycraem
Rubber Duckies Cubaris SP
Little Sea Isopod Cubaris Murina
PORCELLIO SILVESTRII
Armadillidium Gestroi
Borneo Cubaris SP.
Red Fringe Cubaris SP
Blonde Ducky Cubaris SP
p. Virgatus

 

Millipedes

Bumblebee
American Giant Millipede Narceus americanus
Spotted Yellow Flat Back
Scarlet Millipedes
Flat Black
Desert Millipedes Orthoporus ornatus
Pillipedes glomeris pulchra
Ivory millipede Chicobolus spinigerus
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Zebra Roach Care Sheet

Zebra Roaches

Eurycotis decipiens

Zebra roach care sheet

Zebra roaches are a beautiful roach that grows to about and inch in length.  They have beautiful striped coloration as adults.

Zebra roaches require wet substrate of peat or coconut coir, leaves and rotting logs.  They should also have bark for hiding places.  We have found that maple leaves and maple bark work best but others have had good results using other types of bark and leaves.

Zebra roaches love heat so keep them between 75 and 85 degrees for optimal health and breeding.

They love gold fish flakes.  Tetra seems to work best for us.

All stages of Zebra roaches can climb but they cannot fly.  They are easily handled once they get used to your presence.

A container with a tight fitting lid, and air holes drilled for airflow, will work well for them.

They are oviparous and will deposit ootheca in and on the rotting logs and on the substrate.  Those eggs will hatch if kept between 75 and 85 Degrees.

 

Watch our video and see how we set up our Zebra Roaches.

 

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Oriental Roach Care Sheet

Oriental Roach

Roach Care Sheet

Roach Care  Sheet:  

Oriental Roach


Blatta orientalis

 

 

Common and Scientific
Name

Oriental Roach
Blatta orientalis
Breeding Information and
Defining Characteristics

They
will breed readily when the environment is right.
They will lay egg cases which will hatch in a couple of
weeks with temps around 80 degrees.

They
are a dark colored, almost maroon, fast moving
roach.

 

Feeding Preferences They feed on dead decaying organic matter.
Housing Requirements
A well ventilated container with lid and
Vaseline to prevent escape, eg cartons, food, water and heat
Difficulty Rearing
Medium.  We have raised these on very
moist substrate and lost every roach.  We also have
raised them where the temps dipped and they died.  If
everything is right they will thrive.  They look a
great deal like Blatta Lateralis except that the adults are
larger and darker in color. They are not as easy to raise as
Blatta Lateralis.
Climbing Habit
They can climb glass and plastic.  They
like to climb over branches and egg cartons.
Substrate
No substrate is needed
Temperature and Humidity
They prefer dark, damp and cool areas. The
optimum temperature is between 68 and 84F
Restrictions
Florida Legal.

 

Pictures:
Video Oriental roach video

 

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Live Roach Care Sheet: Discoid Roaches

Discoid Roaches, also known as False Deaths Head Roaches because of their similarity to the Death’s Head Roach are very hardy and easy to care for.

 

 

Roach Species:  False Deaths
Head Roach

 

 

Scientific Name and Common Names

 

Blaberus discoidalis

False Deaths Head Roach or Discoid Roaches

 

 Sizes

 

Up
to 3″
 

Life Cycle

 

Reach adulthood in 3-5 months and
then will live another 10-14 months

Reproductive Capacity
Fast
Breeding
 

Difficulty Rating

 

Easy.
 

Climbing Habit

 

Non Climbing.

Substrate
Coconut
Coir substrate and leaf litter.  Also provide hiding
places like small logs or tree bark.
 

Interesting Information

 


Sexing
Males
and females look similar with the female being rounder.
Origin Southern
Africa
 

Foods

 

Fresh
fruit and vegetables.  They love carrots, wet dog/cat
food and moist cereal.  Limit wet grain based food to
what they will eat at any one time so that you do not
attract pests like flies and mites.
 

Water

 

Always keep water
crystals present in a cup.   You can get that here
under the brand name, Cricket
Crystals.

Housing,
Humidity and

Temperature
Aquarium or plastic
container with air holes and a lid.  High humidity with
good ventilation.  85 to 95 degrees
Pictures