Pulling your leg, way out.

Ive kept lobster roaches for years, I bounght 10 from a local petstore once, I fed 2 off to my ackie (first one) and kept the other 8, I set them up in a plastic container with a teflon based coating around the top, I added food, and water gel, in a few weeks I had hundreds (no exageration), in a few months I had well over 1500 live and hundreds dead that I cleaned out of the colony.

I split the colony and had around 1200 plus in another in about a month.

At this time I started giving away half of what I had every 2 weeks to a friend who bred them and sold them at reptile shows. He sold my half, and 3/4 of his, sometimes in the first 5-20 minutes of the show.

At sometime I became allergic to the shedded shells (very bad in fact), I reduced the population, fed as many off as possible, and found out how durable they are. I placed the one colony in my garage during the winter (just above freezing temps) for a few days. I brought them in and they were up and going in minutes. I starved the colony for 2 months (no food or water), with more than half still left. I ended up reducing down to a few to feed off then spraying the last of the colony with black knight roach spray (I wish it was still available).

Ive been using crickets and pieces of chicken peeps with my ackies since.

Never had a problem with overpopulation causing them to gas each other, at one time I think I had around 3000 in the one colony, it was a few inches deep in live roaches. All they need is enough food to support them, and they eat almost anything, including bone.

Once they made a turtle shell disappear in a monitor cage, in a few hours.

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