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Hi

I need a fast and easy way to seperate the smaller roaches from the larger ones. I'm driving myself nuts sitting there with tweezers trying to do this! Any ideas will help .

Thanks

I gave up and started keeping orange spot and orange heads. With these I shake the egg crates off into a large feed crock and with a rubber glove on my hand I pick the large roaches out and put them back into the tub. I then sort out the medium roaches for the animals that can eat the medium sized nymphs and when only the tiny little ones are left I lift them out by the spoonful into the dishes for my baby animals. I like these roaches better as they can't climb out of the feeding dishes so my babies can feed on them faster. The few that get loose on the babies are easily hunted down by the babies or retrieved when I clean the tanks.

I suppose you could use the same method with the lobsters but I never had any luck as they are so fast and so skittish. I have read that you can cool them down and slow them to the point that they are easier to work with. I don't have a large enough refrigerator for that myself!

Good luck!
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Marcia - FroggieB Dragons
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>>Hi
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>>I need a fast and easy way to seperate the smaller roaches from the larger ones. I'm driving myself nuts sitting there with tweezers trying to do this! Any ideas will help .
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>>Thanks

I tend to say I flick out a handful and then shake off as much of the undesirable size. Not scientific but works okay. So, I guess I am saying, by hand is all that I have found works since they cling to everything.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Happy Bunny

Ive thought about getting one and seeing if it works for sucking roaches..Maybe a keyboard vacumn could be modified to work..
Here is one such bug vacumn..Maybe you could design one just for us roach users and get semirich...

http://www.as-seen-on-tv-products.ws/store/product_info.php?products_id=175&osCsid=f7b7065aa718cbdb8c56df61b751749d
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Take two deli cups. Burn holes in one slightly bigger than the size of the roach size you want. The second one will not have holes but if the roach can climb, you should put some type of stop on it.
Scoop up a batch of roaches in the cup with the holes, hold the cup with holes over the cup with no holes and only the size roach you want will fall into the bottom cup. I do this for all my bugs...and pasta..
The only hard part here is in the burning of the holes. The cups will melt real fast. I use a barely warmed up wood burner but I have red-neck friends who do it with a cigarete. I'm a cigar guy and those are too big for this application.
I hope this helps, if you wait a few months I can post some pics. Rock on, Blue