I'm busy cleaning my roach (Blatta Lateralis) tank.... :sick: So far I've moved the egg trays out. Now there's still 'n few small roaches running around on the ground. Do you guys just throw them away or how do you go about cleaning the bottom of your roach tank?

Here's how the bottom looks like:


I have 8 egg trays like this one. How many roaches do you guys guess I have?

Hmm substrate always confounds things. Since youve already put substrate in, I would leave it there as there are probably hundreds of babies in the dirt. For the bigger roaches, substrate is fine I guess as they are much easier to spot in the substrate. However, foreasier cleaning, use newspaper, paper towel or no substrate at all. I just re-use the egg trays.

F1refly wrote: Hmm substrate always confounds things. Since youve already put substrate in, I would leave it there as there are probably hundreds of babies in the dirt. For the bigger roaches, substrate is fine I guess as they are much easier to spot in the substrate. However, foreasier cleaning, use newspaper, paper towel or no substrate at all. I just re-use the egg trays.

That's not substrate :reallysick:

Yes, call me cheap, but I also reuse the egg trays

If that is not subtrate, what the heck is it? I just started a turkistan roach colony and info here would be appreciated...

(Sorry for joining/stealing your thread)

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Uncle Charlie wrote: If that is not subtrate, what the heck is it? I just started a turkistan roach colony and info here would be appreciated...

I can only guess that it is roach-droppings :huh:

(Sorry for joining/stealing your thread)

No problem :thumbsup:

Oh my, that is a shite load of poop!!!

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