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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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The 3 Foods Both Roaches and Isopods Love

Feeding Roaches and

Isopods

I am often asked what I use as a stable diet for roaches and for isopods, and if there is anything that will feed both.  The answer is yes and yes.  We feed three items to our roaches and to our isopods universally.  I will go into each food type that we use.  Those are not the only food items that we feed to our roaches and Isopods.  For instance, we feed or roaches a variety of vegetables and fruits in addition the to three universal items.  Those food items vary based upon the species.  Some roaches love oranges, for instance, while others ignore them.  Some are picky and some are not.  Most roaches eat good quality cat food, which is high in protein.

The three staple food items that our roaches and Isopods receive are;

  1.  Fish food flakes.  We use tropical fish flakes and gold fish food flakes for all of our roaches and isopods.  They all seem to devour it.  Good cat food contains about 27% protein, but fish food flakes contains 42% crude protein.  The fish food also has calcium, vitamin d and various vitamins and minerals that roaches and isopods need.   We buy the brand below by the case.  You can get it in smaller containers for less, and you can also use other manufacturers but this is what we use.

 

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2.  The 2nd thing that we feed to our roaches and isopods is Brewers yeast.  We have not yet found an isopod species that does not love Brewer's yeast.  Roaches seem to eat it also.  We feed this week.  Brewer's yeast contains B vitamins and is a by-product for the beer making process.  Maybe that's why they like it.  This is the type that we use, and it smells great.
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3.  The third food that our roaches and isopods love are leaves.  Most species of roaches and isopods love leaves.  They especially love Pecan, Oak and Sugar Maple leaves, in that order.  At least that is what our findings have been here with our 60 isopod and roach species that we grow here on our farm.

The video below is of some of our roach species eating leaves.  I apologize for the video quality.  I am still learning to make and edit video.

If you would like Pecan, Oak or Maple leaves just let us know.  We have them at great prices. Send me a message at Contact Support if you can't find them.

Please tell us what you feed to your roaches and isopods below.  Upload some pictures of your species eating eating what you feed to them.

Thank you.

Ken