Blaptica Dubia . . just kind of rolls right off the tongue doesn't it?

Got my box of 100 Blaptica dubia roaches today from TCO Roach Store in hopes of being able to have a self-sustaining source of feeders for our lizards and spiders. This should make for the good startings of a colony I hope.

No more stanky

What can you say - these little buggers are cute - they look more like little scuttling fossils than the roaches I've otherwise been familiar with.





I did not have any egg cartons laying around so took inspiration from schlyne's design and stacked up some roach apartments out by cutting up some cardboard boxes and burning myself with a glue gun. When put in horizontally (with 2x cardboard thickness space between "floors") they can climb up the ledges and trundle in wherever they want. These are supposed to be unable to climb smooth surfaces like glass or plastic so I popped the works into a bigger opaque rubbermaid. Didn't take them long to quit their native egg carton from shipping and take up residence.



I can hear em in there singing The Jefferson's theme:

"movin' on up . . . to a de-luxe apartment in the sky . . "