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Homalosilpha sp. Colony Report

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 Hello everyone. Welcome to another post, its been quite a while. So about more than a month ago on 3/7/2025, I got a package containing a small colony of an unidentified Homalosilpha species. Upon opening the package, it was this little bottle with some stuff inside and of course, the roaches themselves. I refer to them as Homalosilpha sp. "South Sumatra", as it is their collection origin based on the seller. This genus is generally known as Asian Flat Roaches, based on their native range in the continent of Asia and being particularly flatter compared to other roaches. In my opinion this is pretty unique and interesting Here they are, very nice looking species and definitely one of my favorite genus of roaches. I received probably about 5 nymphs and 5 adults. In the past, around October 2024 I had gotten a few specimens of Homalosilpha ustulata, but I had failed keeping them. I think my main mistake was keeping them too warm and way too humid. They do enjoy humidity but I t...
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Roach Updates and Invertebrate "Spotting"

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 Hello. I haven't posted here in a while, so why not give some updates? First of all, here are some pretty dominant colonies still going strong. Neostylopyga rhombifolia and Periplaneta americana. So first of all, on 25/5/2025, I went to a pretty small unused patch of grass or land to see what I could find. The area around here is quite abundant in invertebrate species, and reptiles too. I found a lot of species, such as earwigs, spiders, roaches, moths, etc. But the ones that I will be mainly focusing on are a species of roach that I collected here. Lobopterella dimidiatipes L. dimidiatipes is a small, wingless species of roach that to my knowledge isn't too commonly kept around the hobby. They are a stunning species though, having some very nice looking pattern. I collected a few of these nymphs from there, and I kept them in a little cup with sphagnum and bark. Just three days later, on the 28th of May the first adult matured. As you can see above, the mature specimens have ...
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More New Additions And a Frog Army

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 Hello everyone. Welcome to another post So recently, I received quite a few new additions. One of them including a bunch of tadpoles and froglets of Polypetades leucomystax. I am keeping these in large jars with leaf litter and water as the base substrate with some bark sticking out as the land area. The tadpoles are feeding on algae in the water and the froglets were feeding on small insects. After about a week of keeping these froglets, they have basically all reached the frog stage. I have maybe about 7-10 of these little frogs and they seem to all be doing really well communally. These from what I've seen can grow maybe about 1-2 inches as adults. So that's pretty much it for the frogs, and next I got something pretty interesting. I am sure a lot of you have seen these.  These are Ctenolepisma longicaudata, which are silverfish. I'm keeping these in a simple enclosure consisting of cocofiber and egg cartons. I also recently got this dwarf scorpion species, Chaerilus cf...
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