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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 133371" data-attributes="member: 27883">I keep my roach bins on high shelves in the reptile room. The room temp drops as low as the high 70s on a cold winter night and gets as high as the mid 90s on a hot summer day. We get outside temps of 110+ here in summer sometimes. At my peak, I had 18 species of roaches in about 40 bins in there. I kept them this way for several years and managing the excess just became too much of a full time job for me. Now I'm down to 4 species, and soon to be three.I have no personal experience to offer, but I've seen lots of info on people using various heating strategies to maintain warm temps for roaches. B. lats will breed faster at higher temps, but they will still breed at room temps too. Maybe try keeping them on a high shelf in a room that stays relatively warm? Not hard to add a heat mat to the outside of the bin either.</blockquote>