I have roaches :-(

Posted by Sarah on November 25, 2008

I don’t know how to tell you this.

I really don’t want to tell you this, but I must.

I have roaches.

I thought I was through with them when I left Georgia, but it looks like I wasn’t.

Jeff got tired of the crickets, which admittedly did smell on occasion, and since winter is (supposed to be) coming up, and we can’t order the crickets anymore we were looking at alternatives.

We found someone selling some dubia and discoid roaches in Minneapolis and it was all downhill from there.
We had to go to Minneapolis for a birthday party anyway, so we carpooled down there, and I know I asked Jeff’s mom at least 50 times if she was really going to let him put roaches in her car.

I still can’t believe they let us bring them home.

I wouldn’t have.

Now that the roaches are here they aren’t that bad.

They’re in a rubbermaid container packed with egg cartons, and you can’t hear their creepy little feet skittering over the egg cartons unless you are messing with their cage.

I’m finally getting to the point where I’m not too creeped out to go in the reptile room, where the roaches are staying.

Jeff came in this morning and told me he saw a roach giving birth.

I told him I didn’t want to hear about it.

If you’re curious leave a comment and ask him about it - I’m sure he’d be delighted to share with you.

The chameleons and Tiger seem to like the roaches.

When Jeff brings Sully his roach cup Sully rushes right over to eat it.

He was a lot more ambivilant about the crickets, so Jeff usually left the cricket cup in the cage with Sully.

The only problem (if you don’t count digging around in the roach container to find the right sized roaches as a problem) is that he’s scared to leave the roaches in the cages, so if one of the reptiles isn’t hungry, they don’t get fed right then.

Which is good for me - I don’t want to give the roaches the slightest bit of room to escape.

It was bad enough to find the occasional cricket loose.

I’d freak out if I saw a roach running around the house.

We do have some superworms and mealworms for Tiger, Sully and Skye, so that they can have some variety, and if Jeff leaves me at home and goes off somewhere I’ve already told him I’m not messing with the roaches.

We’re gonna have to get some crickets!