Farewell

Hello!

     Hope everyone is doing well. 🙂 Today's post pretty much just deals with a couple subtractions I decided to make to the collection, so nothing too awesome, but I hope you guys find it to be a good read anyway!

     Around a month ago, I realized that there was a species in my collection that I didn't have sufficient space for (at the time) and that it was surely one of my least favorites. Said species was Princisia vanwaerebecki, mentioned in my first and only post on them as Gromphadorhina sp. "Princisia vanwaerebecki". They are surely a member of the genus Gromphadorhina, but after talking to Kyle Kandilian on the matter, I've decided to refer and tag them in the post as Princisia vanwaerebecki just as a means of not adding more confusion leading to possibly more mixing of hissers in the hobby. There is also a theory that all the interbreedable hissers in the hobby may just be different localities of the same species, but either way - DON'T MIX YOUR HISSERS. To continue with the story though, I had reared the Princisia up from small nymphs and they were now a sub-adult female nymph and an adult pair which had just birthed a group of babies. They would have needed a large colony container, which I just couldn't have supplied back then, and they were REALLY making my allergies act up - not good at all. Despite their pretty massive size and nice colors, I had to let them go. I was relatively quickly able to unload them into good hands and so that was that!

Here are some pics of them before they went on their way.

My original group of P.vanwaerebecki

P.vanwaerebecki babies

     The second and final species I said goodbye to was Gyna bisannulata. My gorgeous expo freebies courtesy of Kyle Kandilian never did well for me unfortunately. I ended up having a couple males mature and die before a female matured and then died very prematurely possibly due to stress of being housed in a larger enclosure. I actually thought these were just going to end up withering away in my collection, but by coincidence while talking with a good friend of mine, Brandon Maines, I ended up discovering that he was actually stuck with males while I was stuck with some adult females! I figured my (I believe) 2 girls might as well be put to good use instead of just sitting stagnant in my collection and so I sent them off along with a couple nymphs. I haven't asked how they've been doing, but I hope they're able to seed a nice, big colony!

Here's s few pictures of one of the females while I still had her.

Adult female G.bisannulata

     There is a chance that a few more species will be leaving my collection soon, but that has yet to have been seen or decided. Nonetheless, more a more gems are always entering my collection and so I'm never really keeping less species. 😛 But anyways, if nothing else I hope you all were able to appreciate some pics of some stunning roaches today and until next time, goodbye!