My cockroach had babies!!! =] Yep, lol.

**luckies4me** · 09-05-2009, 01:59 PM

So finally after about 9 months my orange spotted roach decided to grace my family with some tiny little ones. It is so funny because they look just like mom. It will take awhile to tell which ones are girls and which ones are boys. But I don't plan on letting too many get that big as they are going to be used as feeders for my frogs and lizards. It is a lot healthier to feed roaches than crickets, and crickets just plain stink. They're pretty gross. Cockroaches are very easy to keep and have no smell at all. Plus, they're just cool.

The first picture is not of the mother, but one of my hissing cockroaches with the babies. They eat pretty much anything, which is good for leftovers lol. So they're pretty fat and healthy before they get fed...or they will be any way. The babies have grown considerably since this photo was taken, which was about a week ago. The second picture is of the mom. The babies look just like her. I think they resemble rollie pollies.

Anywho, my hissers are strictly pets and will never be fed. I am very attached to them as a matter of fact. Their names are Hermes and Delilah. The mom and dad orange spotted roaches are pets too, but I will feed off their young.

**luckies4me** · 09-05-2009, 03:19 PM

Also, they only have about thirty babies at a time, and give live birth. No eggs.

**Casper** · 09-05-2009, 03:49 PM

Aww, those babies are so cute!

Congratulations!

**hammiegirl** · 09-06-2009, 09:23 AM

I once upon a time fed crickets to my toads. They smelled and chirped all night so I had to put them in another room. If I ever have toads again they are getting cockroaches for food.

**luckies4me** · 09-06-2009, 10:31 AM

I much prefer cockroaches over crickets. They will still get their mealworms and crickets and waxworms on occasion, but not often. Crickets are just so awful to keep. Their smell is horrendous! Cockroaches are much healthier, don't make noise, can't infest your home if they get out etc. I love keeping them, and it's a great starter pet for my young children who help care for them.

**Catherinedana** · 09-08-2009, 11:20 AM

Funny, living in Florida, I spend a whooooole lotta time keeping roaches OUT of my house!

**Seravieve** · 09-08-2009, 06:16 PM

Cute is not a word I can use to describe cockroaches.. sorry. Interesting though. And seeing that you feed them to your frogs. We fed crickets for a long while.. but they're a pain! We'd buy them from Petco or Petsmart and by the end of the week half of them were dead... Seemed like a big waste. And the Petco that is most convenient was ALWAYS out of crickets. Grr. So now we feed mealworms. And the few random crickets that find their way into our house from the back yard.

I didnt know insects had live births.. thats rather interesting to know about cockroaches.