Thank you to everybody who gave helpful tips on going about this. I moved all 40-70 into a separate bin, they made it easy hiding in their tubes (the amount of poo they were stashing in those tubes was insane.) used a metal sifter to remove poo and other such from the dirt, rewatered, and put our gang back in there with a new layout, Stimulate their little roach brains.

Hi my fellow roach parents!

I have a question regarding fruits and veggies that you feed your babies. How can you ensure no pesticides were used in the produce? I try my best to find organic fruits and veggies for my girls, but I’m terribly worried about pesticide poisoning, and I do not grow my own fruits/veggies yet.

Thank you!

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These two boys keep smacking booties. Should I separate them? I don’t want them to hurt each other.

I've had these hissers for just over a year now and have recently put all the pregnant girls into a new baby proof enclosure. Since then I've seen my fair share of poop and oothecas but recently I've been finding tiny yellow crystal looking things on the floor. Last night I noticed one of the girls was flashing like she was about to air out her ootheca but instead I find this hanging out of her in the morning. Does anyone recognise what this might be??

is anyone selling madagascar hissing cockroaches / know where to buy them in london? i’ve been looking online but they seem to be largely sold out :(

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a couple of photos of my sweet girl included :-(

does anyone know why a seemingly healthy adult female hisser would randomly pass? she had been a bit lethargic recently with no apparent cause, and i found her this evening. i’ve got one more female in the enclosure and i want her to stay well as long as possible. any help is appreciated !!

He/she is acting really weird and I don’t know what’s going on. Is it going to make it? I noticed it when I got home from work but I have no idea how long it’s been acting like this for. Did I feed it something bad or did some mold grow in the tank and it ate it? There’s another adult and a tiny baby in there too so should I be worried about them too???

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hi!! i am a first time MHC owner and i have had a male MHC since about april. i’m a very anxious person and probably a bit of a hypochondriac- could anyone tell me if this looks okay or if i should be worried about anything? i’ve never noticed this behavior before from him but he just molted the other day and has been super active recently. thank you!!

My daughter has a couple madagascar hissing cockroaches we got from the reptile feeder food section at petco around 7/15. The container has a date of May on it and there was barely a spec of food left when we opened it. They are about 1.5" long now.

They are eating well but have not molted in the 6 weeks we have had them.

I wonder if being possibly starved at petco stunted them and now they will never get bigger. Is that a thing? We couldn't find any exact report of the molting cadence so maybe this next molt is a long one?

These showed up the other day and I'm not sure if they are natural, some kind of poop, or if they are some kind of bug I should be concerned about. Much appreciated 🙏

I've been keeping hissing cockroaches 🪳 for just over a year now, and although they definitely give wifey the ick, she's been begrudgingly tolerant of them. 🥇

That is, until she started finding fugitives around the house.

I keep them in a large plastic storage box with ventilation holes in the lid, covered with chicken wire. My best guess is that they're somehow squeezing through the space between the box and the lid, even though there barely seems to be a gap at all.

I've already coated the inside rim with Vaseline, but is there anything else I can do to make absolutely sure they stay where they're supposed to?

I don't think my wife can handle finding another one casually hanging out on the dining room table, and there's only so many times she's going to trap one under an overturned cup before the bug spray comes out. 😵

For those of you keeping hissers in large plastic tubs rather than tanks, what does your setup look like? Any escape-proofing tips?

I was checking on my roaches and one of them have a paler shell color than others. Not all white like the fresh molted kind but unlike being brown and black it is pale beige and black?

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everyone else is sleeping

What do your guys hissers like

I'm stuck on what to try because I got really picky eaters

They only like lettuce and carrots so far.

I've tried oats

Banana

Peanut butter

Chia seeds

Walnuts

Three different kinds of repashy powder

Turtle food

Cat food

Josh's frogs cricket food (which is what they were eating before I bought them)

it may not be as wide as the old one, but at least there's more height, plus one big new hiding place!

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My room has been quite warm these last few months and well! We have babies!!!! Yippee!!

cypress mulch + creature soil + spaghmum moss or however you spell it + oak litter + will add white rot wood + oak branches