What The Heck is Coming Out of My Roach?!!!!

[brandy101010]

I just found one of my Roaches with this thing coming out of it. This is my first time dealing with roaches so I really have no clue what is going on. I hope she will be ok.

 

[gaparicio]

Eggs maybe? Does look weird though.

 

[RaiQuee]

HAHAHAHAHAHA oh god, when I read the title to this thread I nearly died laughing Brandy!

If they are an egglaying species, this is possibly an egg capsule that they deposit that holds hundreds of eggs and will in a couple of months hatch into baby roaches! If this is live bearing roach then that means that is infertile babies that she is just popping out.

It looks more like an egg capsule to me, but the picture is kinda blurry

 

[brandy101010]

Hahahahahaah! Thank you so Much Desire! I did not realize they laid capsules! I was expecting just a little pile of round eggs or something, not something that looked like aliens came and gave my roach an anal probe! They are dubias so they do lay eggs so I guess that it what it is! lol

 

[gothra]

Brandy, that's the egg case. Dubias will keep the egg case inside their bodies until the babies hatch out; which will seem like live-birth. They are extruding and rotating the egg case to get air, I think. Don't disturb them when they're doing this, they might drop it. If its dropped, then the babies won't hatch out.

 

[brandy101010]

Well I don't see the female with the egg case anymore. I looked around the tank and I don't see any babies. Will they be too small to see?

 

[John N]

You would be able to see the babies.

 

[gothra]

Ah, forgot to mention, after they'd extended their egg case, they'll retract it back into their body until the babies hatch. I'm not sure how long this takes, but you'll see babies soon.

p.s. don't check on them too often.

 

[Nastynotch]

wow too funny

nice tittle by the way

 

[brandy101010]

Hahaha! Ok cool Thanks guys!

 

[Grinning Geckos]

It takes a good 1/2 hour or more to complete the process. As Brandy said, don't do ANYTHING to disturb the female if you see one doing this.

Oh, and the advice about not checking on them (hard, I know) is sound!! The less I bother mine, the better they do!

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Now THAT is just plain weird.