Quote Originally Posted by yoshimi View Post
I agree about the retail price being nuts. Even factoring in their benefits, it's still crazy, and much more than red runners. I don't feel guilty about the price I'm selling them at, because of the number I have available. But when/if, I have more, they'll be cheaper to let go of. If you send 1st class and don't put rocks in the box, it's pretty cheap to ship them.
Also, I'm getting better at moving the babies. I have an 18-gallon for my breeders, and another like-sized (20 gallon i think) waiting in the wings, purchased on clearance after christmas. Moving the little ones makes it easier (for me) to keep track of how many new litters are showing up. Have some larger nymphs in breeder bin to grow because they're from an order I purchased and that's my idea of keeping the colony going. One died tho. I don't know why. Nobody ate it, it just keeled over.
And again, I agree that Jeff is awesome to have around. And you as well.
There is a super easy way to separate the babies when you start reproducing more. Pulling them all out by hand can start being an extensive project. What you do is take two buckets drill holes in one of them just large enough for the babies to slip through kind of like a strainer, you dump all the roaches in the bucket with holes while it is sitting in the other bucket then lightly shake and the babies will fall through into the second bucket leaving the adults in the first bucket. there are a few examples on you tube. I only do this once every two weeks because it will cause quit the disturbance and you wanna give these guys as much privacy as possible.