So a couple of months ago I wrote about some stress issues I was having, particularly about how I wanted to get rid of all the species I had that I didn't really love, well, over the past couple of months I have been doing so, and today I finally got rid of the last of them.
I gave away my Rhabdoblatta formosana months ago to Kyle Kandilian and another friend, hopefully they'll do well with them, and I traded and sold off my Ergaula capucina and Therea regularis to Cody Will last month.
Today I sold off all my African bullet roaches, Blaberus atropos "Florida", Byrsotria fumigata, Parcobatta fulvescens, Parcoblatta virginica, Pycnoscelus femapterus, Pycnoscelus surinamensis, Pycnoscelus sp. "Thailand", and Therea petiveriana to someone locally, so now I've completely decluttered my collection, and only have species that I truly love and have an interest in!! 😁 (Except for some of the essential feeder species I have that I need for some of my other invertebrates, like superworms and mealworms, that I could kinda care less about).
Feels great to have finally done this, now I have more room for new species that I will really love! 😊 Here's hoping the rest of this year holds lots of new exciting acquisitions for me!
Anyway, that's gonna do it for this post, just thought I'd let you guys know what happened to all of these species in my collection, since I was offering many of them for sale here on the blog and on various other bug sites not too long ago! Thanks for reading everybody, hope you all enjoyed, will see you guys next time! 😉
Certainly a good idea, rare species can spread like this and small collections are more convenient to manage and keep stable during certain emergencies (like relocation).
ReplyDeleteWait, you don't like Zophobas morio, the poor man's Eleodes? Watching larval heads duck in and out of holes while eating fruit is great!
Indeed, already seems much quicker to do maintenance on my collection with those species gone, though I'm sure I'll fill in the gap in my collection fairly quickly lol!
DeleteI don't dislike them, but if my culture just died off completely I wouldn't really be all that sad, just a little dissapointed that I lost a good feeder for my tarantula, who eats like 5 times a year lmao! I actually do like the larvae quite a bit, and the adults are pretty cool looking too. :) This reminds me, I've got to change out my superworm substrate, it's just frass now and my adults don't seem to be ovipositing in it anymore.
Glad you were able to get all that "clutter" off your hands. :) Really odd that you were able to find a roach guy locally who would take ALL those species! LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks! Really lucky if you ask me, he and his daughter are gonna be keeping lizards, among other things, and so they wanted feeder species, like my surinams and Blaberus atropos, but they were also interesting in keeping the "pet" species too, like the dominos and African bullets! They seem like very nice people, so I'm happy it looks like they went to a good home! :)
DeleteSounds like you hit the jackpot, those kinds of people are indeed very hard to find. Glad to hear it!
DeleteYeah, it's always nice to meet kindred spirits! :) They may be joining the forum soon too, that'd be really cool!
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