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So lets start off with what I changes i have made to the enclosure since my breeding video and what mistakes I made as well. So, I got some suggestions from Luna Roaches and they have turned out to be great. I added coconut fiber to the bottom of the enclosure to allow for the babies and adults to dig around in. It turns out they absolutely love it. Often times I find adults digging, and if I handle them and place them back, they normally dig right out of sight. It absorbs and retains moisture well, so it should make managing the humidity a bit easier if you happen to live in a low humidity place. Another thing Luna Roaches suggested to me was to not clean out the roach frass and that it is good for the babies to eat it to help build their immune systems and gut bacteria. As he put it, it is roach gold. It collects in the bedding on the floor and you don't really notice it and creates no smell. While we are on the topic of the floor, that is also where your nymphs will spend the majority of their time until they get a bit bigger. I've placed some bedding in a sifter to show you some of the small nymphs. There are a lot of them scattered about the mulch, this is just some.
Depending on conditions, such as availability of good food, constant water source, and proper heating, they can take upwards of 4-5 months to fully mature into winged adults that can live a year or a bit longer. While they start off small. They grow very fat and have a decent weight to them.
Now for adults. In my last video I showed a few examples of a single male and female. I have seperated out the adults from the larger nymphs. I'm going to sex them on screen and also show you an easy way of handling them to hold them still without having to apply much pressure. I use two hands and either hold the roach sorta like a sandwhich, or, cup it into the palm of my hand exposing the bottom of the abdoment

females, have 1 very large plate. Another different is males are typically lighter in underbelly color, exhibiting more yellows, visible stripes and patterning. While the females, are generally fatter, especially when they are pregnant, which also makes them by default, heavier than males. Female underbellys are almost black, some may have some yellowing. But the singular large plate is the give away until you can sex them by color. You can sex large nymphs in the same manner as I am showing you now. The smaller ones, it is almost impossible to tell due to holding them still, and the plates may not be visible and you may cause harm to the nymph.

In total, I have 14 adults. 6 of them were female, 8 were male. If the average female produces around 30 nymphs every 30-45 days, I should be getting around 120-200 nymph, give or take, every 45 days. Once the colony has been established for 1 year and no feeding off of any of the roaches, my colony should grow rapidly. I am estimating a colony of around 300 adults by this July, I as am expecting at least another 100 before the end of the year, who should fully mature by then. If they are exactly 1/1, which they won't be, but just for ease of math. With 150 roaches and doing the very bottom end of what they lay, which is 20, I'm looking at potentially 3000 roaches a month once I hit my goal. If I create more bins from there. More and more growth. Within the next 2 years, I am hoping to have a bussiness established and this channel as a guide all the way up to turning this from being a simply hobbiest to a potential career. If you believe in me, show your support in the comments!
I have figured out that the fluttering of the wings has something to do with mating. The roach will flutter its wings. And then turn itself around with its wings raised, and back into the other. I have heard their mating is done rear to rear. I believe they release a pheromone or something the other roaches can detect. Just speculation. Or fanning something that builds up under the wings to signal that a male is here. There is this cool little dance they will do while following a female if she walks away or ignores him. It's almost as if males get super excited to when noticing a female. They are very determined once they start this. He will keep trying. We videoed these guys for a good 20 minutes doing this, trying catch something. Seeing this is common, just haven't seen the actual mating yet. Perhaps I can include that in a coming update video on the colony. They are growing fast. I started with 3 females and 3 males and 16 nymphs.


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