Roach breeding.

[Truffs1178]

Absolutly. Male dubias and hissers fight like cats and dogs. That is why you have the 1 male 3 females rule. It reduces the fighting suggnificantly. But you will always have the male compitition with both species. That is just part of there nature.

Roaches fighting is natural so I presume I can mix these species with lots of females and not many males.

[demon amphibians]

Roaches fighting is natural so I presume I can mix these species with lots of females and not many males.

It would be your best bet. Just keep in mind dubia and hissers will not cannibalize if conditions are right if they do it will be some little you will not even notice. BUT other spieces will cannibalize. And other speices will be more aggressive. Poison may be able to give you better info on the various other speices. Now you can successfully keep these speices together. you may have fighting here and there but it will not be a full out war. The point Poison and I are trying to get to is they will do just fine together but breeding will not be optimal. Just like the protien diet your colony will flourish even if fed cat and dog food. But breeding will be 4 times higher if you do not feed protien. And you will have less random deaths. It is really hard to go wrong with roaches so long as you provide the proper temps, humidty and food. We just want you to get the full potential out of your bugs.
And finally to answer your question yes you want at least 1 male to every 3 females. The larger your colony the less the ratio. for example A 500 adult female colony will only require 100 males maybe even less then that. Right now i have my colony about 1 male to 8 females and they are breeding faster then i can get rid of them.

[Truffs1178]

Ok thanks guys. In case you were wondering the reason I want each of these species is because Dubias are the most common and nutritious, Turkistan are fast and draw lots of attention to them selves, lobsters breed really fast and hisses are big.

[poison]

Blatta lateralis will definitely cannibalize if not kept feed. These guy eat a LOT. They only species of roach that I have that actually runs away with their food lol. But if kept well feed then not much to worry about. I was gone for a couple days to come back to several half eaten nymphs.

[poison]

And yes I agree, keeping these species together will slow down breeding. Hell I even seperate the nymphs from my adult hissers and dubia and they breed much faster this way.

[demon amphibians]

And yes I agree, keeping these species together will slow down breeding. Hell I even seperate the nymphs from my adult hissers and dubia and they breed much faster this way.

I do the same and it makes a huge difference when you have a large colony. It is better for the nymphs and the adults to do this.

[Truffs1178]

Do roaches need to have a heat ma or can they breed if the air temp is 32 degrees. My roach room is really warm at 32 degrees celcius and it would be more expensive to use more heat mats. I am going to breed the different species in different containers like you guys suggested.

[poison]

having a high ambient temp works just fine