Pet hissers

[MatthewM1]

I like my dubias so much I bought myself some pet hissing roaches. The guy who owns a shop around here made me an offer to take 4 of his last ones off his hand and I couldn't say no. Ive thinking about building a viv for them in large critter keeper. No adults yet and unsure of their sexes, but when they are breeding g size I'm hoping for some babies to feed to the phibs and maybe hold a couple back to increase my population a little.

this is them in a little plastic egg hunt for stick em in when cleaning out their keeper.

this is how they are set up in their little critter keeper right now. Just a little eco earth for substrate. Piece of cork bark and a food/water dish.

I caught this one just finishing a molt and was able to snag a perfect empty shell before she decided to eat it

And just a random pic of my biggest one on my thumb


I'm done rambling on for now:beer:

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[poison]

Hissers are pretty cool and funny animals. I have a male in my colony that get pissy any time he gets touched haha. They should be easy to sex at that size. Looks like all females to me.

[MatthewM1]

Looks like I'll have to track down a male for them then lol.

I'm a very visual person and all I can seem to find for sexing guides for them are just text and no good images so I was just going to wait till they were adults and look for differences.


These girls are very reluctant to hiss, every now and then when I mist them I'll get a disgruntled hiss. The largest one tolerates handling quite well but the smaller ones get flighty really quickly.
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[Jenste]

It would be grounds for divorce if I ever brought these home!

[Raya]

I saw a viv with hissers in a shop when I was picking up some frogs and I culdn't resist them either!
I bought two, supposedly one male and one female. They are very cool creatures!

[MatthewM1]

It would be grounds for divorce if I ever brought these home!

My girlfriend was not exactly thrilled, especially once she found out that I wasn't going to be feeding them to Morbo.

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[deranged chipmunk]

nice acquisition matt. i was sad when i had to give mine up. i had a breeding bin as well as a show viv for some. there's a thread around here somewhere on it. the easiest way to sex them is males have larger protrusions on their heads. they look more like horns compared to the females. also, i believe the antennae are longer one on than the other. i just forget which has the longer antennae.

[MatthewM1]

So I woke up to find this morning the biggest and smallest just finally molted(the other 2 molted about a week or two ago). But the best part is... The smallest is a male! His horns are massive compared to all the others =)

So looks like I lucked out and got the 1.3 I was hoping for =)


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