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I have had people mention they have trouble getting here egg cases to hatch. I just collect them and place in a container and they hatch at room temps. I don't use a heat pad. If your one that has problems, try putting your egg cases in a tarantula style type of icubator. Search YouTube if you need to see what one looks like.

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[slyair91]

I hawe a litle problem whit my blata lateralis eggs,thay dont want to hatch,this is the 19th day and so far no hatchings.Ewerybody say,thay need 2 weeks to hatch,but I want the pros advice.

How many time is it take the eggs to hatch?What is the right tempereture 4 tham?I put the eggs in a litle contaner,and in that contaner in daytime 80-85F and at night drops to 55-60,and I put wet paper under the eggs to keep the humidity.

[moose9900]

@slyair91 The eggs can hatch in as little as 2 weeks under optimum conditions, but more like 3-4 weeks or longer. Your night time temps are to low. My night temps never fall below 74F and daytime get between 85F-90F. The eggs require lots of humidity. I just keep a container of water gel in the tub with egg flats to climb when they hatch. Patience is key with roaches. Temps are also important. Get your night temps up and you should see a difference.

-Greg

[moonanddarkness]

Im thinking about realizing a biology project with these little buddies, however, the species im going to handle its highly contaminated with bacteria, fungus and parasites, do you know of any method of desinfecting the oothecas before hatching and without harming the nymphs or the adults ?

[moose9900]

@moonanddarkness Personally, I would destroy the contaminate batch and start with a clean batch of specimens. I don't know off hand any safe way to clean the ones you currently have other then rinsing them thoroughly in luke warm water.

-Greg

[angecrwfrd]

@J03LZ1821 They are an excellent food source for many animals - lizards, geckos, tarantulas to name a few.

[papichulo1velez]

Hey thank you for the advice that you gave me and I was the one that had the incubator and had the temps at 80 and humidity at 60. I recently dropped the heat to 72 and humidity 50 and at night the temp was at 60 and humidity 50 and since the last time I wrote to you I just did what you did and my eggs started hatching two days later like you said they would. Since I dropped the temps more eggs are hatching thanks for the advice please keep doing videos because I am very interested in them

[J03LZ1821]

why would u like to have cockroaches?

[darthmaul291]

Thats awesome man when i start getting more scorps by summer time you goin to be a source of food for sure lol

anyways very awesome video 5*****'s

Tim

[Norrad01]

Good video Greg! I had a colony of these and was always worried about humidity levels.. They did just fine when I stopped trying to do extra steps lol. Now that I have slings again I'm gonna have to get ship to me. They move so fast T's love them.

[hackneysk8er]

oh great stuff then. Thanks Greg, you helped a lot!