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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vermis" data-source="post: 199496" data-attributes="member: 37487">It took me a while the first time I kept inverts, but when I started trying to breed feeder roaches I got bit by the bug, almost harder than with Ts. I don't know exactly what it is about them. I kept dubias, red runners, lobsters, discoids, but the pride of my collection was a tub full of big peppered roaches, Archimandrita tesselata.This time around, I'm bit again, though the diversity of available species in the UK seems to have dropped a bit. Or maybe it's just me. Started with another feeder colony, this time orange heads, Eublaberus posticus (just a wee bit more colourful than dubias, and something I haven't kept before) from the one regional seller I could find. They've been putting out enough nymphs over the past couple of months that I almost feel like I could feed my one T from them exclusively.They were quickly followed by a colony of red heads, Oxyhaloa duesta. From the same seller and, again, the only one who had any to sell! Planned to get these going for feeding some potential future slings, but oddly, these are a bit more reluctant to start popping out nymphs. Oh well, they're characterful little buggies anyway.Thirdly, a second colony of A. tesselata. I couldn't not. I almost thought these had disappeared completely from the UK scene, but once again I managed to find a single seller after trawling private ads. Bought twelve nymphs, one shed and emerged fully mature during transit, but it seems like the stresses were too much and it died a couple of days later. Currently treating the remaining precious little trilobites with kid gloves.And I'm thinking about another colony, a species that's a real rarity that I got some info about. Something that I not only haven't heard of before, but that I can't even find any photos of online. Fingers crossed, and watch this space.</blockquote>

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