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JackAsp
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Discreet roach packaging? 
I’m running out of roaches, and the kind I like aren’t available around here any more. I may have to send away, but I really, really, can not afford to haver the neighbors see that I am having boxes of giant roaches sent to the building. I’m on the third floor, and there are a couple of oldsters that pretty much live in the hallway on the ground floor and talk to absolutely everybody who comes through, so any box that arrives WILL be gawked at, and if it is a screen box in which roaches are clearly visible, or if it says "Live Roaches" in big letters, or anything like that, they will know, and soon EVERYBODY will know. If all it says is "Live insects" and it’s a closed cardboard container with just a few holes, I have a better chance. I can make up some nonsense about it being a type of something nonthreatening like inchworms for some kind of something equally nonthreatening, like fish. But if it’s going to be obviously roaches, then I can’t risk it. Every time a regular house roach is seen in the building, it will be My Fault, assuming that someone doesn’t just call the landlord the second they hear the rumor anyway.
So my question is, what do roaches come in when you send away for them? is it like those big screen cricket boxes? Dos it vary from company to company? If so, is there anyone who ships them discreetly?
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09/26/07 06:11pm
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#1458864
789
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Message To: JackAsp In reference to Message Id: 1458134
Discreet roach packaging?
I think it would vary. Most of mine have come in just a regular taped up box. No vents. No live feeder sticker on them. What kind of roaches are you looking for?
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09/27/07 12:23am
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#1458922
JackAsp
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Message To: 789 In reference to Message Id: 1458864
Discreet roach packaging?
I’ve been using Death Head hybrids, and I’d like to stick with them. The only source I was able to find was New York Worms, but there may be someone cheaper. I’ll use either purebred craniifers or purebred fuscas if I can’t get a good sneaky shipment of the hybrids. If not, I may have to settle for something else entirely, but these are just perfect. I made too many mistakes starting out the colony though, and by the time I had conditions right too many had died... especially since the colony was still my only source of feeder roaches. Now, from hundreds of originals, I’m down to maybe a dozen adults and a bunch of very young nymphs. So, back to the drawing board, except this time there’s no guy at the reptile show having a "Get these damned things out of my house," sale.
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09/27/07 01:37am
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#1463751
789
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Message To: JackAsp In reference to Message Id: 1458922
Discreet roach packaging?
Oh, I don’t know about any of those species. Sorry.
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10/01/07 01:29am
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JackAsp
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Message To: 789 In reference to Message Id: 1463751
Discreet roach packaging?
It’s OK, I found somebody. And if Halloween season isn’t the best time to have 400 Death Head Roaches sent to your building, I don’t know what is! They’re coming in an unmarked box, so if anybody hears scratching I’ll just tell them that it’s a hundred giant grasshoppers for fishing. "No, you can’t see them. I don’t want to chase these things all over when they jump out!" For some reason people who would be horrified by the idea of people keeping large bugs as pet food probably think nothing of people keeping large bugs in order to shove pointy metal hooks through them, and "New York Worms" sounds like a bait supplier anyway. Which, actually, it largely is.
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10/01/07 01:25pm
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