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Oh alright that's good; yeah thin them out if you think you have too many. Man I just don't know what I've done to cause them so much stress, I mean at most I'll open the lid once a day to check for dead ones or replenish the water gel crystals. We just had a heat wave so the bin got up to like 115F today at the bottom. That probably stressed them out pretty bad, although they could of moved up the egg flats where it dropped to like 90-80s. I keep them in a dark bin in the garage, they don't ever see much light so I don't think they are stressed from that. Maybe just moving the egg flats around and stuff checking for dead ones stressed them out a bit or the heat I have at the bottom.

I keep them in close quarters together, only 3 egg flats in there with about 200 adults. They pretty crammed near the bottom. I'll try to take a picture of my setup so you get an idea of what I'm trying to come across.

I bought 2 heat tape pads off BigAppleHerp to bump up the heat and prepare for winter (I haven't got them yet in shipment). Even though it says 90-100 at the bottom with one of my uth's on the bottom they're still not breeding. I've sprayed the sides, left a water bottle in there, and water gel crystals are in there. I'm going to add heat maybe with that insulating idea 'steest' showed us to solve this mystery. It's really starting to make me mad. I keep their food source well stocked: Oranges, carrots, and a homemade chow (Dog food, cat food, oats, and grape nut cereal).



Haha, funny we both found the same egg flat source from Robc. I don't even like T's, but I subscribed on Rob's channel because I like watching all his videos. He has a million... One of his videos directed me and you to this Enasco sight for a great deal on egg flats.

If you are moving the egg crate around and checking them out daily, that is the first thing I would stop. Peering in once a day shouldn't matter, but I wouldn't pick through the egg crate but maybe once a week. If there is a dead one in the egg crate, chances are they will push it out, just by moving around it.

Think of it from there prospective. If the container is pitch black, then once a day it gets super bright, then all a sudden they get moved around, and such, scaring them to death, or more so making them react to the movement, vibration, and light, its going to stress them out, and make them go in to survival mode, trying to escape the things bothering them.

I know your intention is good, but I think this would be the root cause of there stress.

I'm also subscribed to Robc, and watch most his stuff since I like T's. but must have overlooked the egg crate thing. I seem to remember a video where he had a 50gal tank he put the roaches in, and it was pretty dang full, probably 10,000 roaches, and he said something about egg crates for cheap.

I would like numbers like he has some day. would be kinda cool just to take care of, but also trying to sell a few