Breeding the Argentine cockroach (Blaptica dubia)

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Size: 4-5cm
Young animals: about 30 per oviposition
Temperature: 29-32 ° C
Developed Klung time: at 25 ° C 6 months, 6.5 to 9.5 weeks at 28-32 ° C.
Origin: Argentina
Habitat: moist warm
Food: vegetable foods (carrots, dandelion salad ...), dogs flake food, cat food

I started with 100 sub-adult animals that were meant purely as food animals, now they were in the box (60x40x35) and one day I noticed numerous offspring, then I thought to myself ... but they can breed. As the name suggests (Argentine cockroach), they come originally from Argentina. The females are ca.4cm long and are also much thicker. The males are indeed with ca.5cm longer but they are much smaller and have wings (which they use not to fly).

The attitude
I keep my roaches in a PVC box from the hardware store with a size of 60x40x35, in the bottom of the box there is a residual clamping plate with aluminum foil glued to the risk out of the way to go inflicts that the furniture to heat mat one damage or even to come which the mat is burning through the box! As a substrate, a mixture of wheat bran, oatmeal, Futterpellits's inside, here is a sufficient amount of 1-2cm from over. But will probably change this to a humus soil has the advantage that as a little moisture is retained, but the downside is probably that cockroaches will bury you and then the substrate must dig through a couple of cockroaches to get out.

In order to provide the cockroaches are hiding eggs boards very beneficial, just a few of those put on each stack so that the cockroaches have also a nice place to hide. To ensure proper ventilation, it is sufficient if in the box at the bottom of a ventilation grille and in the cover (see breeding tank). The ventilation should not be too large for the ideal temperature of 28-30 ° C to make sure, because at this temperature, the effective functioning of a well breed! Higher the temperature should not be, because the Argentine cockroach fall so in a kind of heat-rigor. Because cockroaches are mainly active at night and avoid the light, no extra lighting must be installed.


The feed
The Argentine cockroach (cockroaches in general) are quite tolerant to the food, we can offer so much different. Different types of fruit (not sour), vegetables (not flatulence), oats, wheat bran, dry cat food, fish food, the best experiences I made with carrots, cucumbers and apples. In nature they are, so to speak, the exploiters of service:). Important that you provide is only so much food that they eat within 3 days, because there are so very quickly begins to rot. Old uneaten food should be removed so all three days, but make sure the food in no small cockroaches and they are outdated in this Local room!

Because cockroaches are no large claims, so too can feed good "kitchen waste", it was the potato skin left over potatoes ... but also pasta thank you assume.


The sexual characteristics
In adult animals, the sex is very easy to recognize. While the males have long wings and are much narrower and longer, the females are a bit thicker and have only small wing stubs.

The breeding
Another important advantage is that the Argentine cockroach "viviparous" and sell adult females at regular intervals of about 15-30 young animals the size of woodlice. Viviparous means here that the ootheca expelled with the eggs while, but immediately pulled back into the abdomen and will remain until hatching of the young cockroaches in a kind of brood pouch. This simplifies considerably the breeding, hatching there is no damp substrate must be introduced. kommen Larven bis zu einer Größe von 1-2 cm in Frage.">For smaller lizards or NZ larvae come down to a size of 1-2 cm in question. Since the Adults are very durable, they can be permanently held for production of other young cockroaches.

The workload
The work load is very low and restricted mainly to remove the uneaten food from old every 3 days. A general cleaning, depending on trim 1-2 times per year and may be payable subject to the slowly increasing odor intensity.