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Lava Lamp Goddess
Feb 19, 2007

So I acquired two hissing roaches and I'm in love. I was wondering if it's better to use a water dish or water crystals with them. I could always also get one of those big jars of Fluker's orange cubes if need be.

Also, is there a safe way to mark them to keep track of which roach is which? I know they will shed them off, but would a silver Sharpie or a small dot of nail polish be safe? If not it really doesn't matter right now since I can tell them apart by their sex but I'd like to keep track of individual roaches when they start breeding.

I have them in a medium kritter keeper right now with a spare 5 gallon to transfer to when they start reproducing. I have found the best way to keep their temp up is to sit them on my DVR box of all things. When I had dubias they bred like crazy from sitting on that DVR.

I also bought two praying mantis egg cases to fill our garden up with lil mantises when the weather finally gets warmer. I'd keep one inside to hatch but I just have visions of tons of baby mantises escaping and taking over the house...

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