Roachbread's Bug Blog

Hello, welcome to another post. I've always wanted to be able to successfully breed and keep aquatic invertebrates, but I never really got the chance or succeed. Recently, I collected a small group of Limnogonus fossarum in a small pond, or kind of an abandoned fountain. Here's one of them feeding on a red runner nymph. These are a pretty interesting and probably one of my favorite species. I like that coloration and striping on the wings. Since these lay eggs usually in floating surfaces in the water, I provided plenty of leaf litter and also a piece of driftwood. I originally collected seven specimens, one looking pretty gravid. The one on the left seems pretty gravid, and turns out she was. I kept these for only a few weeks, with unfortunately the gravid one dying out and a few others too. But lucky enough, I came home to check on the enclosure and spotted something great. Some newborn nymphs. These actually took so much faster than I expected to hatch, only having these for...

Porcellionides pruinosus, commonly known as powder isopods, are a species in the family Porcellionidae, and are native to Europe. These get their name from the powdery texture of their carapace and it is pretty visible and makes them quite unique in my opinion. This species is commonly used to be cleanup crew and feeders aswell for other reptiles, amphibians, and other invertebrates.  In the hobby, many keepers and breeders have cultivated a lot of morphs, such as oreo crumble, white out, red koi, etc. They are a pretty widespread species, both in the invertebrate hobby and in the world. This species is pretty widespread, going all the way from North America, to Southeast Asia and even in New Zealand. Photo credit: TC Insects These guys are a pretty easy species to keep. So let's dive into how I keep this species. Housing I house my P. pruinosus in a small storage container, about 25x15cm or something like that, but going larger would work aswell. Enclosure is pretty self explanato...

 Hi everyone, welcome back to another post. In this post I'll just be showing some updates and stuff. First up is my Panesthia angustipennis, the larger nymphs seem to be growing fairly quickly. I'm sure these nymphs are only a few instars away from maturity, and I've already had a sudden adult boom in my colony. Here's some adults taking cover in a log that they basically hollowed up. This log has way more openings than showed in this picture by the time I wrote this, and they are really consistent in eating rotting wood and stuff, hence where they are found naturally. Next up is a species I don't think I have showed on the blog site before. Periplaneta australasiae. I took these pictures quite a while ago of a pair I received recently as a bonus when ordering some other species. By now I unfortunately have lost the pair, as they have died. Lucky enough, they mated and laid 2 oothecae. So now I have a few dozen nymphs running around. I can confidently say that ther...

 Hi everyone, welcome to another short post. I'm going to give some updates on my inverts, and some species have been doing quite well. First up is an unknown Dorylaea sp. that I received on October. This colony unfortunately died leaving one female, but she is nonstop laying oothecae! Recently I had some of the oothecae hatch, and there is now a small litter of 10-15 tiny nymphs. Dorylaea sp. nymph It's super hard to get a good picture due to their tiny size and fast speed, but that's the best picture I could get. Happy that these have bred, and I hope that these will grow to a thriving colony. Next up, I've rehoused my Thelyphonus sp. "Red Back" to a better enclosure because the previous one had a mold outbreak. Here's the enclosure. I might add some live moss to make it look better when I do get some. And lastly to wrap it up, I've had my Viviparids that have not yet been identified produce a second litter of hatchlings.  I have a bunch of these guy...