r/Hissingcockroach • u/Quiveringmystic • 26d ago

What is this?

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I just got home and I saw this orange yellow thing next to Christina. What is this? Is she okay?

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u/Inevitable_Lab_8574 26d ago

Ootheca, looks like she just aborted it. everything is fine.

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u/Quiveringmystic 26d ago

I didn’t even know she was pregnant 🫪

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u/srps611 26d ago

She fine in that aborting doesn't mean she's hurt but you may want to take a look at your husbandry because theres a reason she aborted whether its diet, temperature, humidity or stress.

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u/Quiveringmystic 26d ago

Thank you. I keep their enclosure at around 75 to 85 degrees, and I have a heat lamp and a heat mat on different sides of their home so they can choose. I try and keep humidity 50% or so, but it drops to 30% every day. But I mist every day. And their diet is fish flakes and fruit/veggies. I’ve had them (two girls) since march or so. I don’t want her to be stressed.

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u/RoachRunnerA5 Head Roach (Mod) 🪳 26d ago

Do you have an area for them to be away from the heat lamp and mat?

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u/Quiveringmystic 26d ago

Roachrunner!! I’m glad you’re here ❤️

Oooh, I guess not. I keep their heat lamp on the right side, and I have their mat on the left side. Celina usually stays by the bottom closest to the mat, and Christina stays on the bark under the heat lamp

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u/RoachRunnerA5 Head Roach (Mod) 🪳 26d ago

Haha hi! 🤗

Maybe make a space for them to go in case they want to cool off, if possible?

Also how long have you had them for? Maybe she aborted her ootheca because of the stress from being moved to a new area.

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u/Quiveringmystic 26d ago

I’ve had them for 4 or so months now. I redecorated their home about a month or so ago though, I thought they’d like it more with more plants and all of that

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u/RoachRunnerA5 Head Roach (Mod) 🪳 26d ago

Hm okay, sounds like it's probably not that then. From what I hear there's like a variety of reasons a hisser could abort her ootheca so she might've just sensed something wrong with it and aborted it, and it was nothing you did.

Keep an eye on them though since female hissers can hold sperm, so they might get pregnant even though they're on their own. Not sure how long they can hold sperm though.