acharpenter
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I have been raising a colony over the last 4 months or so. First time I had experience with them - I could not touch them - 2nd week - I could pick up the egg crate they were on and bang it against the side of the tank to get them to drop into the dish for feeding.
After a month I could pick up the baby's and medium size ones - after about 2 months - I could pick up the adults (though it still wigged me out!)
So about a month and a half ago - I saw a female adult go sailing out into the open as I was banging the egg crate against the glass. The tank sits in my crawl space in front of a ton of boxes. Hence the female cruised under the boxes - was no way I could find her without tearing the crawl space apart.
I let it go and did not say a word to my husband about it. Just hoped he wouldn't find her before I did. A week later I was at my desk and I hear a scurrying - look to my right and there she is cruising across the wall of the office - caught her and threw her back in the cage - whew - crisis averted!
About a week or so ago - I lost a male in the very same way - this time I decided to tell my husband - he was actually pretty cool about it - NOT HAPPY - but cool.
Last night while sitting at my desk I hear a scurrying - under my desk! Grabbed a flashlight and after 30 minutes of looking - found him in the paper shredder!!!! Grabbed him and threw him in the tank - SCORE! Another crises averted!
Here is where it gets funny - tonight, my husband is moving the decorative pillows off our bed onto the floor - he stops and says, are you missing a roach?
Im all - uh no - he says turn on the light - so I did - here he found a male right there on the floor next to his side of the bed.
I was all - OMG - I dont know how that happened! His only response was "well your all about these roaches so PICK IT UP!"
LOL - grabbed it and threw it back into the tank.
Im still cracking up - he was alot better about it that I thought he would be!!!
Tonight I thanked him for not stepping on it - then I was like - yeah honey out of the thousand I have growing - I WAS missing A roach. I was wondering where that one went when I didnt see it among the thousands in the tank!!!!
He actually cracked up over it when I put it that way too :main_laugh:
LOL!!
Just another roach story I knew you all would appreciate
After a month I could pick up the baby's and medium size ones - after about 2 months - I could pick up the adults (though it still wigged me out!)
So about a month and a half ago - I saw a female adult go sailing out into the open as I was banging the egg crate against the glass. The tank sits in my crawl space in front of a ton of boxes. Hence the female cruised under the boxes - was no way I could find her without tearing the crawl space apart.
I let it go and did not say a word to my husband about it. Just hoped he wouldn't find her before I did. A week later I was at my desk and I hear a scurrying - look to my right and there she is cruising across the wall of the office - caught her and threw her back in the cage - whew - crisis averted!
About a week or so ago - I lost a male in the very same way - this time I decided to tell my husband - he was actually pretty cool about it - NOT HAPPY - but cool.
Last night while sitting at my desk I hear a scurrying - under my desk! Grabbed a flashlight and after 30 minutes of looking - found him in the paper shredder!!!! Grabbed him and threw him in the tank - SCORE! Another crises averted!
Here is where it gets funny - tonight, my husband is moving the decorative pillows off our bed onto the floor - he stops and says, are you missing a roach?
Im all - uh no - he says turn on the light - so I did - here he found a male right there on the floor next to his side of the bed.
I was all - OMG - I dont know how that happened! His only response was "well your all about these roaches so PICK IT UP!"
LOL - grabbed it and threw it back into the tank.
Im still cracking up - he was alot better about it that I thought he would be!!!
Tonight I thanked him for not stepping on it - then I was like - yeah honey out of the thousand I have growing - I WAS missing A roach. I was wondering where that one went when I didnt see it among the thousands in the tank!!!!
He actually cracked up over it when I put it that way too :main_laugh:
LOL!!
Just another roach story I knew you all would appreciate
I ended up just taking out the probe completely and none escaped after that. I had the probe hanging outside and apparently the tiny gap it made in the lid was enough.
