Offspring of a Giant!

Hello and welcome everyone! 🙂
Remember one of the last posts I made about my first babies from a few roach species? Well, I didn't know it at the time, but I was actually leaving out one of my largest species.........Archimandrita tessellata! Long story short, while misting the Archimandrita enclosure, I detected some faint movement in a small patch of substrate, thinking it was too good to be true, I decided to grab a handful anyway. Not feeling the characteristic huge form of an adult, I opened my hand to find a first instar nymph!😃 Filled with excitement, I ended up digging around to see what else I could find and turned up with about thirty more nymphs. The next day, I rounded up the last few stragglers and was left with a final count of thirty eight! These guys had apparently been eluding me for a while since about half were already second instars, likely also signaling (along with the large count) that they were the results of two separate births.
Besides seeing how many nymphs I had in total, another initiative of mine for gathering everyone was to save the substrate from a slime mold that was threatening to take a foothold. So after taking all roaches out, I removed the affected portions and mixed in the remaining components for my new and better substrate mix (cypress mulch, sphagnum moss, and coconut husk in this case since there was already more than enough coco fiber for the mix and plenty of dead leaves to cover the top layer).
But enough about that, hear are some pics of my baby giants (or giant babies)! 😊

1st/2nd instar A.tessellata nymphs

1st instar A.tessellata nymph

2nd instar A.tessellata nymph

Like with my other two species that I recently got my first offspring from, these guys also came with a bunch of relief since most of my adults were beginning to grow old and sort of tattered-looking. Really, really love when stuff like this happens.😄
I hope all of you who had time to check this post out enjoyed it and be sure to keep an eye out for my next one where I hope to be introducing a couple awesome roach species despite some significant moving complications! Goodbye!🙂