12 DIFFERENT Roach Colonies!

[@MrActionproductions]

Never watched this channel and 10 seconds into this video i already love this guy.

[@fionnbc]

ohhhh you are in for a treat petko is awesome he also enjoys monster cans and chocolate

[@nonameworm69]

He's passion, the amount of joj radiating from him is capturing

[@d11.66]

@@fionnbc wait as in the energy drink

[@murder13love]

Weird isn't it.. was the same a few months ago.. I don't even like insects 🤣

[@whatwentwrong4599]

@@d11.66 Yes he loves energy drinks his Kidneys are glowing a radioactive green at this point

[@jakovsabic2837]

11:00 "Same design" 🤣🤣🤣 Never change, Petko

[@uiopuiop3472]

me when iphone 15

[@yingg.6051]

I grew up with fear of flying roaches, but watching how Petko handled them in this video made me realize how silly that fear is xD Thank you!

[@alicemilton8756]

Roach Breeders: Unsung Heroes of the Food Chain

[@tiffanyvoerman]

"Such a pretty roach"... OK Petko, if you say so 😅😆

[@indiamay2296]

Those white ones are super pretty! But I bet Linda wouldn't turn down those huge roaches!

[@faithinstinctgaming3759]

Yeah those are like the only ones that wouldn't make me shit myself if I saw it in my bathroom

[@LukinsNotmanMusic]

You should keep the crickets you could make a really cool cave enclosure for them.

[@jusbetter7634]

Fuck crickets all my homies hate crickets

[@Nanaluna16]

In Argentina where I was born, the flying cockroaches would be my absolute nightmare. Seeing you handle them like it’s no big deal astonishes me lol

[@china_sickness7005]

I don’t know why, but if any insects give me shivers, it’s roaches. Arachnids don’t bother me. The tarantulas are really beautiful and fascinating but for some reason, I’m not a big fan of roaches.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

When I kept pet roaches, I used a special climb stopper silicone grease that prevented roaches from climbing. Worked like a charm Therea bernarti? Never heard of that Therea species, but I've heard of the domino roach and the question mark roach! And they're so cute when they're adults

[@ahmetkerem4769]

Therea bernhardti. Quite similar to Therea petiveriana (Indian domino roach) in appearance and is also often called as domino roach, though I don't know their status in the hobby.

[@india239]

If they got out of their container would you have ended up with a roach problem in your home?

[@jcdesierto4761]

i would love to have that too

[@randigoodman4597]

Just put a top on. they loooove to climb. Just make sure they do not escape.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

@@india239 no, majority of roaches aren't pests. Only one percent are pests. So no, not at all. And the roaches I kept (Simandoa consefariam) are from a tropical environment while I'm from NY, they wouldn't have survived the winter anyway.

[@kakarikiIck]

It’s good that You mix it up with the different animals that You show us.

[@nowasiwassaying...1699]

Wow a whole video about my ex and all his friends! Edit: on second glance, I see this actually about cute little bugs, nevermind ( 😉 )

[@bouncdataz]

Relax 😂

[@TheDarkDen]

oof

[@travis65100]

the roachies don't deserve this...

[@AussieBit451]

😂😂 don’t disrespect these fat boys like thaaattttt

[@valentinabenitez_2000]

Petko: Are you enjoying the roaches so far? me: well yes, of course! I'm even eating cookies! Thanks for your videos Petko!

[@luvdinos2sonid371]

This gives me flashbacks to dark den season one where the Halloween crab talks to the other creatures and the roaches are like “we eat what we want. We eat fruit, dead roaches, we don’t care” 😂😂😂😂 the voice acting for that vid was amazing

[@rebelicious407]

PLEASE keep the cave crickets! Or sell them as pets or give them away they are so cool!!

[@thorin4669]

You can come to my house and get some during winter then lol they always make a way into the house during winter.

[@rebelicious407]

Lol I'm in Florida

[@lacymcknight5043]

They are nothing but pests. They come in the house all the time, but at least the cat kills them. They gross me out.

[@Mothobius]

@@lacymcknight5043 We don't need your negativity thanks. In some places cats are nothing but pests. In fact, they are in almost every place. They kill millions of small wildlife every year. You don't complain about that. Don't say things you don't know. Cats are pests as much as they are. Especially in Australia

[@lacymcknight5043]

@@Mothobius This is a YEAR OLD. Not one person had said ANYTHING for a year. How are you going to come to an old comment, be hateful, and call me negative. If you have some grudge against cats, honestly, I don't care. But leave your comment there, let's see what people say about YOUR comment. I"n just baffled that you are so butthurt over me not liking crickets in the house that you felt the need to reply. Dud you spend Thanksgiving alone? Is that why you're being weird? Keep up the antisocial behavior and you'll get to spend lots of holidays alone, leaving furious comments over insects. I don't know what shithole you're in, but here, cats aren't pests. People like you are pests. Have the day you deserve, loser. 🖕🖕🖕

[@laurenlittlerock6533]

Spiders.... Tarantula.... scorpions no problem! Roaches....crickets and all things bugs NOPE!! 🤦‍♀️ Such an illogical fear I know.😅🙈

[@jillmccoy5184]

Same! Roaches 🤢!

[@lordlapswans]

Crickets freak me out to ...

[@StoriesbyIrish]

Not when you consider they are different species. Insects vs arachnids, for example. 🤷‍♀️

[@StoriesbyIrish]

All of them freak me out regardless so... lol

[@Strawberrymilkdrink]

I hate slugs snails and worms bro you have nothing to be sorry about

[@brookee118]

Petko even makes roaches seem adorable. His excitement is so contagious.

[@blunderbuss1395]

well they already are

[@jacobthesbjerg8095]

“I forgot my cellphone at home” Recording in his basement

[@Brandon-dh5rd]

It’s actually not his basement not even his home

[@bradgooner3284]

@@Brandon-dh5rd this is petko finalising the move into his basement where this episode was filmed kzbin.info/www/bejne/nanOiZ2io9monKM you must of missed it

[@cathyb1273]

They do not live in the house yet. He explained why in a previous video.

[@sebastian6650]

I really like your old videos, but I did not expect I would be so much hyped when you release a new one, and I expected even less that I would watch the whole video, actually being interested in it while not even being about spiders. Really like your channel and I am looking forward for your future content, Ive been really enjoying it ever since I got into this hobby!

[@Koda893]

Can you somehow make a cave themed enclosure for the crickets? It would be cool to see them climbing on all the walls, roots and stuff.

[@renc7305]

That would look ultra cool!

[@kagehikari4281]

Nice! I haven't seen a lot of these! I think it would be cool to keep most of these around that you can for variety. Thoes hissers looked really cool, never seen them that dark. There my fave roaches, always had a soft spot for them after raising them back in high school.

[@ethanringe4213]

I was absolutely terrified of spiders up until the end of last year and I have had many small heart attacks caused by Cave Crickets. 😭

[@thesoulstard7984]

Oh men I don’t want to be near your house when an earthquake happens

[@toddwaters7368]

I love the cave crickets crazy long antenna!

[@mamashomesteadlife2877]

I tried so hard not to be grossed out! Still watched the video 🤣

[@ProgressiveDiscussions]

Those damn hissers climb and are Escape artists. Maybe spreading silicone lubricant or petroleum jelly around the top Edge?

[@WildLife_Perspective]

Never thought I'd say this but beautiful roaches!

[@jenewok]

The cave crickets are adorable! Please keep them as pets!

[@Succubug]

"IT'S A UGLY PLANET.. A BUG PLANET" 🤣

[@idanpery]

Put all the great enclosure you build in the role of decomposers. If you want to create a bioactive ecosystem in such a large enclosure, you will need larger decomposers than springtails.

[@Noob3rt123]

Poor Felix, all he wanted was food and all he got was a tease. hahaha

[@carms1065]

8:15 that other roach is a different species

[@yashdudhabale1168]

Alex the chemelion saying like: I want to eat that special weekly xtra large cockroach

[@ashleywhite848]

In Indiana we have those "Cave Crickets". We call them "mole crickets" and "spider crickets". They are a nuisance critter. Constantly under foot and just asking to be stepped on. I just push them out of the way with my foot lol

[@rome5149]

vaseline along the the upper edge of the terrarium. vaseline is a hell substance for my sensory issues but my hissers can't climb through it and i don't need to reapply it until i deep clean the tank

[@dreamoficcial6677]

Hi sir PETCO! I've been your fan for a while now. I'm from the Philippines. My biggest fear are cockroaches but upon seeing the roaches on this video, I want to try and hold them. They are so beautiful. More power to your channel! Me and my son really loves your videos!

[@jandon4639]

The black roach at 11:16 has a mite on its back, else than that cool roaches tho.

[@Fish1027fished]

pretty sure thats a hypoaspis mite. if so, they are mostly harmless

[@erikback3144]

The big boy roaches were super cool and the hissers too

[@Smackvttv]

We have crickets like that around here and they have huge mandibles and can bite

[@alphaxenopete8241]

Those cave crickets would be cool for a cave design enclosure

[@PapaGinzer]

Felix was ready to blast right away

[@usernamedenied1881]

I've been away for a long while but it was a instant hit when youtube suggested this!

[@Stinkepunker74]

No It is not a mixup. There are allways some more or less yellow Gyna lurida, maybe 1 yellow in 50 specimen. We have a few keepers here who isolated the yellows and after some years successfully breeded 100%yellow G.lurida stocks. The "busted" wings are usually older roaches, they nibble on other roaches wings. And indeed the bigger ones are females like most other roach species. The adult Gyna are good flyers, too.

[@gabecballou5303]

I have an unholy amount of the crazy looking crickets all around my house. We call them spider crickets here(Oklahoma) but fully aware they aren't actually spiders hahaha never been able to have any success keeping one on an enclosure tho

[@DingoDman]

so happy i found this channel just what i need for roach breeding and colony building journey

[@СерафимШакиров]

ВОСХИТИТЕЛЬНОЕ видео, обожаю, когда ты показываешь тараканов, желаю, чтобы твоя коллекция пополнилась новыми видами, такими как corydidarum magnifica.( прошу прощения, что написано на русском)

[@roguegaming9277]

You shouldn't apologize for speaking your native language. I would never apologize for speaking English.

[@mikemullikin8942]

My grandpa used to tell his friends "That boy would go bear hunting with a switch, but he's scared of a damn cockroach". Yup. I make no apology, I love mantids and tarantulas but you can keep the roaches.

[@thereseold2785]

I have Macropanesthia rhinoceros. Or Giant Burrowing cockroaches. Super cool pets.

[@imgriizzly4179]

Felix be like : "Stand still I’ll show you"

[@Commander_Reid]

Found a oriental roach in my room.....it was slow and easy to kill first time I've ever seen a roach

[@shustkidding]

Those crickets look an awful lot like the sprickets (spider crickets) that show up in my house every summer and they are terrifying. They are super jumpy and fast and I leave them to my cats to handle

[@ray-sattler]

We have around 200 hissing roaches and discovered clumps of mites on them all over the head legs and back and on some lesser infected ones you can see tiny white mites running around. You can't even wash them off and when we looked closely in the container, there where some dead roaches in there with thousands of mites on them, so we cleaned everything out. It also looks like the mites kill the roaches or they at least die because of them. All 3 enclosures we have now have mites :( It sadens me to tears cause my girlfriend and me love them so much. Do you have any idea, what i can do to get rid of them, i don't want to loose our cute hissers? I tried the flour method on some of them but I'm not 100% sure if that did the trick. Thx a lot in advance mate. Ray

[@Hayley0412]

Poor Felix he was preparing his tongue in readiness, I think he could cope with the huge roaches! 👍🏽

[@DR-gt2vh]

Petko should let him try sometime!

[@WizzleTeats69]

8:25, that was a pest american cockroach. I keep green banana roaches too and nymphs definitely do not look like that.

[@WayneStakem]

Nauphoeta cinerea are a great feeders and very economical. There are a few issues with them... One is their climbing ability in combination with their speed. They quickly escape their enclosure without the proper precautions. The simplest solution is to create a barrier with petroleum jelly on the inside rim of their enclosure. Just an inch or so should be fine. Other than that the only issue I have with them is the vile odour which they produce 🤢 They're great feeders for young juvenile tarantulas. I also have Blaptica dubia, Blaberus craniifer, and Gromphadorhina portentosa. I hope I can also get a hold of some Blaberus discoidalis but they're not easy to source here in Ireland.

[@Salodanger75]

And that last one, Pepper roach, is beautiful 😍

[@jarridsl_plantarum]

I had 2 colonies, one of Gyna cafforum and other of Gyna centurio... the second is my favourite, adults are so beautiful... but in both colonies, what began as a small group of 5-7 roaches, turned (slowly) to a nightmare of dozens and dozens of roaches! The problem is that adults climb pretty well any surface (although they almost spend the day buried, until summer when they became crazy and don't stop climbing, runing and flying on the walls of the breeding boxes, so if your lids don't close hermetically tight, they could squeeze between the gap and beguin flying through the room🤦🏾‍♂️). But cool thing is that they are like piranhas... when the colony explode, you'll have a sea of moving dirt full of nymphs, that will eat anything you throw inside... even injured comrades...

[@mkriz2140]

nice vid unfortunately you did not tell if they are capable to cause infestation or can be used as food for T's (i know they probably are not for feeding but i would like to see some comparisons with dubia/turkistan as a feeding species)

[@TheDarkDen]

I don't know yet, didn't really read about them ^^

[@KP3droflxp]

Most roaches won't infest your home, the burrowing ones probably won't be able to burrow and the really big ones can't find suitable spots, especially if they are bad climbers. On top of that the conditions in your home won't be correct if you live in a temperate area.

[@mkriz2140]

​@@KP3droflxp i thought the same and then i had to deal with turkistan roaches... they were everywhere (mostly close to heat sources) Other House members nearly killed me :D

[@KP3droflxp]

@@mkriz2140 Tough luck. But those look alot more like the classic infesty ones though.

[@Shawnsatisfiedwife]

I just started my dubia colony which are of course feeders but my husband got me a special gift which is a Madagascar hisser and im so excited she will be my pet

[@Trenee281]

P: are you enjoying the roaches so far?? Me: N😂!! But I enjoy watching you enjoy them!! 😁

[@amandaleeborchert3745]

I never thought that I would be watching a roach video🪳🪳🪳.....saying "ohhhhhhh that one is a beauty!!" 🤣🤣🤣They are gorgeous though!! Thank you for sharing!!🐞🐞🐞

[@RetroRetrospective]

Those big roaches are in cuba as well, i used to be too scared of them whenever i visited

[@BuffNerdInCa]

Are you heating the entire room? Or some sort of individual heating. Thanks

[@AspienGirl]

I never saw cockroaches (accept for the common small ones) before finding your channel. This is so interesting. 😁

[@seangere9698]

Panchlora Nivea are my favorite species of roaches. The males reach about 15cm and females reach about 21cm when adults. Also females are slightly wider then males. Both are green and have wings. That other roach didn't look like a nymph of P. Nivea. It looks like an adult of a different species. The Nymphs should be a uniform dark chocolate brown to black but not as shiny as most other roaches. It should have a cloudiness to it. I have been looking for the last 8 years for some here in Germany but haven't found anyone that has any for sale yet. Congrats on the new roaches.

[@AG-tl8oq]

Where did you get that info from? I searched the little guy up,it says 50mm at most

[@dariofu7347]

Hi, I'm also breeding many roaches and I just wanted to say that the nymphs of Panchlora nice don't climb flat surfaces and don't look like this you had in the box. I'd say it's another species. But you should breed the Panchlora because they reproduce like crazy and they are kind of nervous every time you touch them what triggers spider's to hunting. Best regards Dario from Germany

[@dariofu7347]

And the Archimandrita tesselata need a high soil level because the nymphs like digging in to it and when they don't have it they will not reproduce.

[@dariofu7347]

And I ment Panchlora nivea. My auto correction likes nice more that nivea 🙈

[@officedullard8722]

ambitious chameleon, also the cave crickets were so cute

[@saigemalpass993]

Not him booping a roach lol

[@MochaMochaHeart]

AKA 12 different walking chicken nugget colonies

[@michaellou7101]

Ok, an escape roach will get the shoe…..

[@sarahb.6475]

I had no idea that roaches get so big!! They almost look like they are armored tanks.

[@mattiadellorco4385]

Keep humid the terrarium with coco soil and I suggest u to separate the neanic gussets from the adults, in my colony the neanic were eaten by adults bc I didn’t separate them

[@hustlerfrosty7585]

Keep the black tiger hissing roaches, horseshoe crab roaches , and the lobster roaches that you said were fast get a big tub for those and line the rim of the tub with a thick layer of vaseline and they can’t escape they will climb the tub but won’t test the vaseline barrier I keep the lobster roaches if you decide to keep them I’ll help you learn how to breed them

[@jordynjohnson3932]

I keep blaberus craniifer roaches as pets, they look very similar to the last each you were showing but have solid black wings and their head plates have a more jack o lantern type pattern on it. The males and females are tricky to tell apart! They are commonly known as Death’s Head Cockroaches

[@greenlizardballs]

Panchlora nivea is back!!! My favorite roach species!

[@itsDzon]

1:41 I left my cellphone at home, while being actually at home, haha. Petko you crazy man!

[@TheDarkDen]

my other home, we are still renovating the house :)

[@robertsivak8887]

The crickets are native to North carolina in USA. Try a colony before feeding time.

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

Man my mother would just faint at the sight of this video.

[@batmanramen9850]

Text her the link lol

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

@@batmanramen9850 😄😄😄😄

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

@@batmanramen9850 she once saw a cockroach almost the size of a palm and when she spotted it (we were at a fair) she jumped a distance of abput two meters and it took us a few seconds to see where she went, the roach was calmly placed in the enclosure. I think it was either a Cuban or South American roach.

[@yonasshinigami4956]

Damn does your friend with the roaches by any chance lives in germany?? Because I am german and have a few of those species as pets, even before I got my first T, and all of those different animals you can buy at the place where I got mine from. The Store is called "Insektenliebe" wich means Insect Love and is really great. They also have a ton of different Isopods and other inverts :)

[@tmntleo]

Those ones with the little wings are adorable they look like they have little capelets on!

[@lizrasper1213]

Those smaller feeder roaches that you said you wouldn't want to breed ARE really great to use as feeders, they are also called LOBSTER roaches or speckled roaches and they are super good feeders. A lot of people in the US use them. They breed really fast and they are quick but not as fast and bolty as red runners. I use them for feeders with my reptiles and they love them! Oh the other thing is that males and females both have wings, and they are virtually identical except the males are smaller and the females have two small lines like notches pointing in from the end of their butts. haha They are great feeders because their shells and wings are less hard than other roaches and are easier for reptiles to eat and digest.

[@die.3695]

We really treated the hissers badly like we did to ourselves. Giving a different name to the same species just because it has a different appearance.

[@reelairexotv07]

your roach looks pretty awesome

[@stephanieh.8669]

Wait!! I just realize that you left your cell phone at home.. 😆!! But you are at home... just run up stairs and grab it!!😆😆

[@Mac-po1sr]

You should keep the Aphid, Cricket critters. They are so cool. Would love to learn more about them

[@marcioturcoteixeira846]

I know this video is 3 years old but there's an easy way to sex roach species in which both males and females have wings. Just turn them belly-up and look at the last segment of their abdomen: the female sex organ is two wide plates, and the male sex organ is two filaments.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Boy are those roaches mad they should be blessed to be touched by a god

[@wild2dbone]

Great video Petko 🔥💯...I've been keeping the Gyna Cafforium for 2yrs now very easy to take care of

[@SuperLoops]

I like big fat slow cockroaches I have some pet dubias I bought them as tarantual food but I liked them and decided I couldnt feed them to my spiders so I made them an enclosure and kept them to be pets instead. that was like ~18 months ago and quite a few are still alive they like to eat oranges. they were the luckiest roaches in the shop that day.

[@denicedetroit2153]

Spiders, Tarantula's I absolutely love. Roaches I now don't mind, since I have to use them to feed my T's and Scorpion with, but I definitely don't view them as pet's. Some are beautiful though, Petko. But nope definitely NOT for me as an actual pet. Definitely gonna to have to get over my phobia of some of them first.

[@waspbr]

You should check out Pseudoglomeris magnifica and Therea regularis, they are gorgeous roaches.

[@erenjagerofficial7221]

i don't know if you will read this but I've been on your youtube account since your first dark den and I learned so much from you and now I have a tarantula myself for over 1 year I love your content

[@Vegetarianbull]

Feels so good when they walks over your arm its relaxing

[@Levelz31]

It's time for a new kiwi. You're fans want another jumping spider 🕷️

[@mikoajkapitan8843]

You should keep Archimandrita tesselata in the enclosure with substrate

[@Flamehack]

// You should take a look at "Pseudoglomeris magnifica" - defenetly the most beautiful roach I have ever seen.

[@TheDarkDen]

can't get my hands on them, I would love to keep them!

[@KP3droflxp]

Bought some last year, they're beautiful and also somewhat diurnal.

[@Flamehack]

@@TheDarkDen // In germany there's a shop (insektenliebe) - I got mine from there. Shipping over such a long distance with these temps is not so practical - but when it gets warmer this might be an option for you :)

[@funsize69]

PERFECT TIMING

[@abyss7539]

Having a large decorative display enclosure for the colony of crickets could look amazing! Would love to see that in the future, so long as they don’t stink. Heard cricket colonies can get pretty dirty compared to roach colonies

[@mellewedin8221]

I honestly love roaches, and I trying to get my hands on a cave roach that no longer exists in the wild, and this was thanks to scientists

[@Valeyard1447]

I would love to see you keep colonies of the hissers