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Anonymous
Oh, let me tell you about these things.
I kept some for around 2 years. At first I was a very conscientious master, and when I changed their substrate I would pick out all the little babies and try to make sure I didn't throw any away (I cared for them) and I fed them plenty.
Eventually I stopped caring, when I realized they eat each other, and 90% of the biomass you put into their tank gets turned into more roaches. They pretty much sustain themselves through cannibalism if you feed them little enough, and this keeps their population from exploding... just my personal experience.
A good substrate for them is recycled newspaper balls; certain wood shavings (such as cedar) are a natural insecticide and will kill them, and other wood shavings allow the babies to hide inside the curled shavings (which might not matter to you).
For the first few weeks I kept the tank on my dresser, but then one of my idiot cats got behind it and kept shoving his face into the tank trying to get them and pushed the whole tank off. It landed upside down.
Some escaped but I never did have an infestation (I'm in central Indiana).
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