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

[hammiegirl]

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]

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]

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

[Seravieve]

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.

[ramanth]

I think 'hissers' are so neat! I would prefer to feed roaches over crickets to my crew, but fear if any got loose, my landlord would kill me!

[IRescue452]

Congrats. I'm still trying to find somebody who sell roaches locally (without having to buy 100). Once one of my pregnant hissers got loose in the house. I found mom and her 35 babies in a box in a closet. No invasion yet and its been a few years so I assume I found all the babies or any unfound died of dehydration.

[king2005]

Hmmm.... What kind of cage do you keep them in? I'm quite interested in raising some as feeders as I have a very hard time getting large healthy crickets. + they make such a nasty mess in Lilly's tank. I visit a lot of reptile stores & have never seen cockroaches sold... Where could I get some? & What is a good breed to get.. I like the 30 live babies thing & they look pretty big so they'll be easier to keep caged.