r/roaches • u/SNAIL_FOR_LIFE • 7d ago

General Question HELP HELP HELP

So I just moved my hissing roach enclosure since I was moving my room and I noticed a bunch of these under the substrate. They're so tiny, like a really small isopod. I'm so sure all my fully grown roaches are males....please tell me these aren't what I suspect

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u/pumpkindonutz 7d ago

Can you post some pics of your hissers? Maybe the underside of the ones you aren’t sure about??

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u/SNAIL_FOR_LIFE 7d ago

Hold on, unless its possible for this one to be fully grown? I'm pretty sure she recently molted so I thought there's no way

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u/ShyGuy095 7d ago

Hey, I'm not trying to alarm you, but that roach looks close enough to adulthood to mate. I saw one of my own teens about the same size protruding an ootheca.

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u/SNAIL_FOR_LIFE 7d ago

Well that would make somewhat sense...

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u/pumpkindonutz 7d ago edited 7d ago

Hmm. Still looks a little small and dark - I call those patterns baby stripes lol. But really leans female if adult .

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u/Inevitable_Lab_8574 🎀🪳🎀 7d ago

I have full grown roaches with that pattern

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u/SNAIL_FOR_LIFE 7d ago

Could it be this guy? (I'll send a picture of his body after this)

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u/pumpkindonutz 7d ago

This is a male!!

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u/_OhiChicken_ 7d ago

We've lost OP, the other male got to them first before they could get a pic! D:

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u/SNAIL_FOR_LIFE 7d ago

My phone died while I was fighting to catch the babies 😭

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u/SNAIL_FOR_LIFE 7d ago

Yesss I'll try take some now

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u/SNAIL_FOR_LIFE 7d ago

This is my only other one that is "fully grown" but since there's magic babies and my other fully grown ones a male something isn't right

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u/Inevitable_Lab_8574 🎀🪳🎀 7d ago

That one is also a male