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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quandry" data-source="post: 26539" data-attributes="member: 2592">I have an adult male named Haja. He's a champion hisser. Hah! I often hear him in his cage, just hissing to himself, despite there being no one and nothing around. The ones we use for outreach events often won't hiss because they are so used to being handled. They are pretty docile once they are used to being held, and they definitely don't skitter around like the pest species you find in your homes (which, by the way, are an extremely small percentage of the total roach species in the world).My favourite roaches, though, are the two glowspots (Lucihormetica verrucosa and L. subcincta). They are pretty and also rather docile. Domino roaches (Therea petiveriana) are also good ones, and they look more like beetles than roaches.Here's Haja demonstrating his skills at hissing:[MEDIA=youtube]i5PPUeFzJsM[/MEDIA]</blockquote>