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You totatlly had me until the "food".... *shiver* :P
That Haplopelma lividum is HHHOOOTTTT............ :eek:
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Pretty cool stuff.
Though this stuff scares the isssh out of me. :eek:
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Thanks, if I would of known that the H. lividum had just molted I would of waited until she had a roach or two in her belly before rehousing her.
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Love your cobalt blue.. how'd you get her to come out for a pic? lol
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I rehoused her shortly before the pics were taken which is also the reason why the substate is dry.
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Ah.. yeah makes sense. How often does she come out otherwise?
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She goes on cycles, she'll be out at the base of her burrow every morning for 3-4 weeks then completely disappear for 2 months.
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Yeah.. so mostly they are pet holes. They're so pretty though.. and nasty. lol
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Nice but i have the same roaches and i think you have the males and females confused...........i believe the females have the large wings............. :)
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That first scorpion looks like it would do some damage. How bad would stings be from the different scorps you have? I don't know much about inverts.
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Nice looking male. :) I really like these roaches, they are so calm when being held. I almost feel bad feeding them off...lol
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That first scorpion looks like it would do some damage. How bad would stings be from the different scorps you have? I don't know much about inverts.
Being stung by the parabuthus I would probably have to go to the hospital, same with the centipede if for nothing else to alleviate the pain. Being stung by the other two scorpions would most likely be about like getting stung by a hornet.
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Now.. dubia roaches don't fly/climb, correct? I used to keep lobster roaches, but the darned things climbed anything (including over the Bug Stop varnish that's supposed to stop them.. lol)
Also are the dubia roaches prolific? It'd be hard to beat lobster roaches on that point..
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Correct although the nymph's can climb if the wall isn't perfectly smooth. I keep mine in a non transparent plastic tub that I bought at Walmart, the tub that I bought wasn't perfectly smooth and I noticed that one of the little ones was quickly climbing up the sides. I made a post on arachnoboards about it and one of the guys told me to use smooth clear packing tape as a barrier. I purposely ran a couple up the sides to test it and sure enough it worked like a charm. I started with quite a few mature females so I was getting babies within a couple weeks, now 3 months later I have babies everywhere I look.
You might want to look into Blatta lateralis these reproduce just as fast as lobsters but can't climb smooth surfaces, just make sure the sides are perfectly smooth because they can climb much better the dubia and they are FAST!! I feed these to a couple of my arachnids because for some reason they touch the dubia's.
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Now.. dubia roaches don't fly/climb, correct? I used to keep lobster roaches, but the darned things climbed anything (including over the Bug Stop varnish that's supposed to stop them.. lol)
Also are the dubia roaches prolific? It'd be hard to beat lobster roaches on that point..
Lobsters climb anything.....i used to keep them.....the dubia are great little roaches ...haven't had any problems with escapes, funny to watch them try to climb out though.......the funny thing is i don't keep my bearded dragons anymore, but i still keep them around....................i guess they are pets now! :D
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Very nice :), love the P. transvaalicus
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Love that freshly molted baby roach :P
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Good to know.. right now though I get by with just a couple dozen crickets a week (I have 11 inverts right now) so it's not worth it for me to keep a roach colony right now, but I'll keep the dubia roaches in mind for the future.
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Good to know.. right now though I get by with just a couple dozen crickets a week (I have 11 inverts right now) so it's not worth it for me to keep a roach colony right now, but I'll keep the dubia roaches in mind for the future.
I only have 8, when my tub starts overflowing with them I'll thin the herd and take a few dozen back to the LPS.
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Ah.. that works. None of the pet stores around here use roaches though.
