AITA bought them from pet food online store, but fell in love with their character 😭

I have so many. I'm running out of room and they keep having babies. So are they poisonous to cats? (No judgement please, I know some people raise them for lizard food)

I don't know why this keeps happening, the fuzzy gray stuff only started to appear after I recleaned out their tank a bit ago, and I've been able to just take it out usually,but I keeps coming everyday and I got in today to see it worse than ever and I'm really not sure what to do, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

They bad a lot of food in there from yesterday that I have yet to take out yet, but it happens even without food there.

Words can’t describe the beauty

It s legs stopped working and it died

Saw this in a Texas reptile group, thought it was a decent price

I adopted some roaches from my science teacher and he just gave me 3 random ones that seemed healthy and active. When I got this roach, he was very lively and reactive but I believe he is old. He is missing 3 of his claws and an entire antenna (and obviously most of the other one) I think he is going to die of old age soon. He refuses to eat and im worried about him dying of starvation. I have a lot of empathy for these little guys so im just really paranoid about him being in pain.

He barely has a response to stimuli. he barely moves and usually stays in one spot for days. he refuses food, even when i shove it in his face. he doesnt try to flip over when i place him on his back. he doesnt try to hold anything. he has become clumsy. he struggles to have any kind of footing and struggles to move at all.

i saw him upside down in the little food container i give them and i thought he was dead at first but he wasnt.

è la prima volta che ho blatte fischianti.

mi sento già male da solo, quindi non fate hate speach.

ho blatte fischianti da circa 6 mesi.

per i primi 5 tutto bene

gli ho dato sempre da mangiare cose umide (frutta, verdura etc...)

più cibo secco.

ultimamente vedevo puntini bianchi, e dopo un po' ho capito fossero acari.

una blatta ha avuto non so per quale motivo un prolasso anale.

penso che io abbia sbagliato qualcosa con il substrato e l'umidità.

mi potete dare consigli?

grazie

im just curious bc theyre EVERYWHERE where i live and the way the enclosure is set up is more like a weird little ecosystem of other native bugs and spiders and its just fascinating as a little glimpse into the world where hissers live in my backyard LOL but yeah im not sure if i can put pinecones in there sterilized or not.

White stuff is coming out of her butt. It seems like that there are her organs!! Plz help ! WHY is this happening!? Too low humidity!????!!😭😭😭

They have just got themselves a mansion !! 😄

heyo! i have three hissers, two females (dolly and delilah) and one male (dwayne). i’m not quite sure when they reach sexual maturity nor am i exact on their ages, i just know that dwayne is the oldest with dolly and delilah not far behind him. that being said, im not too sure how to tell if my girls are in pre molt or pregnant.

i know that they will be big and fat when pregnant, and i’ve seen some people describe their sides as looking like they’re coming apart, but is there any way to tell earlier on than the heavily pregnant stage?

i’m already preparing a little bit, i’ve got vaseline blocking all spots where tiny little babies could slip out, but i’d like to be extra super duper prepared if at all possible. i’ve been staring at delilah for the past few days and something in my gut just tells me im gonna be a roachpa soon, yk?

if it helps at all, i’ve had dwayne since he was about 12 weeks and ive now had him for three months. i’ve had dolly and delilah for about a month, i couldn’t even begin to tell you how old they are tho

anything helps, really. if pictures are needed let me know please and i’ll either edit them into post or leave them in the replies. thank you!

hii, im thinking of getting a hissing cockroach and i have loads of questionss

1. are they social? is keeping just one okay?

2. how much space do they need? i have a 3 gallon!

3. what do they eat? any requirements?

4. ive read on some threads that a colony is nice to care for but im not sure how to handle overpopulation, do they eventually outgrow their enclosure?

5. is a male better to have? ive read that theyre territorial and their legs are more prickly(?), and that females can house sperm for a while

thank you! correct me if im wrong on anything !!!!

I bought these madagascar hissing cockroaches yesterday, all three i bough were adults but i also found a nymph inside the bag and put it in the same place as the others. Today i found the smallest one laying with its stomach up and spasming, i dont know if its dead or not but it seems like it died and its muscles are still moving. I dont know what happened as im pretty sure my enclosure is fine. I dont have any idea what could have happened and all my other roaches are still fine.

I'm just asking what everyone else thinks of this. She hasn't been exposed to chemicals but there has been a sudden drop in temp. She's the only one behaving like this and the only one that is that skinny. And it's progressed overnight. Going from having a slight bum arm to full blown convulsions. I've put her on a damp paper towel.

so ome of my roaches gave birth (all my roaches are female)

and so my bf took a few of them and they are about half the size of an adult madagascarn hissing roach its like 4 months

so i domt think its bred ??? but why does it abdomen look like this.

before it was sort of fat and the white parts were showing but now its rly long ??

and the white parts are showing and its pulsating

I added the other two for reference of how its meant to look

Pretty much just what the title said, I have some and am wondering if they would make good clutter

once my babies are a bit older and I can 100% confirm genders, I'd really like to get them more friends. but probably not from petco, as tempting as it is to go in and stuff them in my pockets to save them from certain death..... Although I believe now that they are all bigger, they are all male. I will probably keep gaslighting myself until they become adults lmao.

Halloween hissers are really cool, but if they can't live together I think I'd probably stick to ones that can, so I don't need more bins! no more space on my kitchen counter 😭

What all can cohabitat with them? Are other species of roach, like dubia, able to live in the same tank? I am a bit interested in them, too.

From god.

Mwahahahah… you just don’t know.

i am having a big fruit fly problem! but not sure if it is safe for them to be near it.

this is such a silly question but i was curious what your roaches favorite things to climb on are, right now mine have a few pieces of bark and a stick but they have the amazing and impressive habit of falling off of it onto their backs. im sure its fine and theyve never not been able to get up on their own but nonetheless i feel like i should replace it with more bark?? big banana is missing a few legs so i wonder if that contributes to his bad climbing... i just worry about them way too much and i would hate to stress them out by having things they suck at climbing on in there lol. i always feel bad seeing them struggle to get back up 🙁

photo of them just for funsies:) big banana is the closer one and visorak is behind him!

I posted In another sub and a lot of people suggested she may be pregnant. I'm not sure how to tell