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JackAsp
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Message To: Geezle In reference to Message Id: 1477981
Roach colony substrate 
The problem is it’s hard to clean all the fecal matter with substrate. Actually, make that impossible. Living things aren’t sterile, so eventually you stand to get a dangerously high level of bacteria or pinworms or nematodes or whatever. That said, I use the same stuff you do, because I can not keep adult death heads alive without it. However, I did just move all (or at least all that I could find, I’m sure more will turn up) of the nymphs into a seperate tub, with no substrate, so I’m going to experiment with just keeping them with food dishes and egg cartons. If they start dying I’ll abort the experiment, but if it works I figure that’ll give the adults a clean cage for longer, plus they’ll get more peace and quiet to mate without all those enormous Baby Huey roaches crawling over them. As nymphs turn up, I’ll move them into the easier to clean tub (I also bought a third one, so I can clean by just moving everybody in one tub straight into another, then worry about wiping out the old one.) And as adults mature, I’ll move them into the breeding bin. I figure by the time the adult population is heavy enough to make this seperation difficult, I can start keeping the breeders with a bare floor too, and if any develop wing problems I’ll just shrug and feed them off. But at the moment, the adults are sacred. If these ones that I have right now want sphagnum, then they get sphagnum.
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