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I didnt know you were referring to one of the roaches in the pictures I posted. Hence you can understand my surprise when you stated the green banana looked like a hisser. The first picture in that post was of a discoid the second picture is a death head roach, the smaller roach with it is a nymph.
green banana cockroach- Panchlora nivea: nymphs are brown and tend to stay buried. Adult males get maybe 15mm adult females maybe 24mm. They fly and climb well. They require a lot of humidity as substrate. Most of the people who buy them from us do so to start colonies for finicky chameleons and mantids such as violin mantids that like flying prey. There is another species of them also. The females of this species can get 1.25 inches and 2-3 times the mass of panchlora nivea females. Males of both species are the same size
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Fascinating. I'd like to keep them they look pretty cool. I'd imagine they are a little on the expensive side though. Do they breed prolifically?
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Yes they are fairly prolific. They do need eat as well as lots of humidity. Once they get going you will notice it. They cost more than dubia and discoids but there arent as many available. Most of the peole we sell to use them as feeders for chameleons, mantids and other animals either for variety or stimulate finicky eaters. They climb and fly. We also sell them in much smaller lots than the dubia.