I have them set up in a gallon jar with a fully vented lid. They have a thin substrate of coco fiber, topped with eggrcates for hides. I'm keeping them on a 50/50 humidity gradient, and have them at around 75-85F°. They are being fed dog food and apple slices as their staple diet.
A cute species for sure, and this line in particular has rather thick white margins, and banded legs.
But wait, we aren't done talking about L.decipiens! Because last year, I also obtained a locality stock of this species from "Trastevere, Rome, Italy". This line is a bit smaller than the EU hobby stock, with thinner white margins and darker, monotone legs. Care seems much the same, I have these set up identically to the "EU Hobby Stock", and they are now thriving for me as well!
AFAIK I'm the only one with a breeding culture of this locality stock at the moment, though hopefully that will change now that I have them available. 😊
And now for some comparison photos between the two stocks:
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| "EHS" (top) vs "Trastevere" (bottom) |
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| "EHS" (left) vs "Trastevere" (right) |
This is such a cute species, one that I hope catches on in popularity in the US hobby as either an occasional feeder species, or just as an oddity pet!
My Parcoblatta americana "Table Rock, Boise, Idaho" are still going strong, it's been a while since I took any photos of them, and I specifically wanted to get some decent shots of an adult pair together, which I think I achieved. 😄
The female was definitely the more photogenic of the two, but I think I got a couple OK pair shots in there. 😅
The Perisphaerus horaianus colony is thriving now, absolutely exploding in population, which I just love to see! It seems providing them with wood hides instead of only bark really helped boost their numbers, as well as switching them to a humidity gradient rather than keeping the entire enclosure humid.
This is but a fraction of my colony, crazy to think just a couple years ago I was really struggling to get these to breed for me!
I finally reacquired a group of Pycnoscelus cf. rufa this year (ex. P.tenebrigera), and they've been doing well and have bred for me. I also managed to get some decent pair shots of these, which I'm happy about. 😄
It's insane how vibrantly colored the adult males of this species are, compared to other Pycnoscelus spp.. 😍 I have yet to keep P.striatus, but those are the only Pycnoscelus I could imagine holding a candle to these.
Anyways, that's gonna do it for this post! Thanks for reading, hope everyone enjoyed, and I'll see you all next time!
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