advice for new idea on breeding roaches

[arielgasca420]

I find it very difficult and expensive to get egg flats. Has anyone tried papier mache? is it a bad idea?

[Branman]

It would be fine. But it would be bad because the frass would build up on the paper and make it more difficult to clean. You would have to clean it more often than usual. It would also be hard to find the baby nymph roaches. They like to hide and it would be harder to find them since they would be hiding under the layers of paper mache. You can use a lot of things around the home for roaches. Paper towels rolls, toilet paper rolls, and copy paper that is lightly crumpled into a ball.

[JeffreH]

Drink carriers from fast food joints are the closest thing to egg flats - a lot of place like taco bell just has heeps of them sitting out for the taking. Stack them vertically as you would egg flats and the frass will fall down and accumulate on the bottom:



I find these more space efficient than any other household material (aside from egg flats). You are looking for maximal surface area to hold as many roaches as comfortably as possible. I do like paper towel roll and crumbled material for small colonies but they do not allow you to store the same quantity as efficiently.

[arielgasca420]

thanks!