Ack! A roach!!

I use diatomaceous earth, available at places like garden nurseries and likely in bulk at healthfood and herb stores, though I got mine years go from a local dealer of Permaguard, www.perma-guard.com, where you might check to see if they mention aquariums. I know using it is okay around warm-blooded mammels (the worst it will do is worm mammals and add trace minerals to the diet, though it is not sold for this). Don't use swimming-pool-filter DE, it's not the right grade. I also used to use roach motels when I lived in an old house. I have seen more 1/2" size roaches this year, but it may be because we actually had a monsoon (wet) season this summer. If I see more, I'll have to puff more DE under appliances and into hiding places as well as consider putting out a Roach Motel. I kind of wonder if my H&T tetras would nibble on a roach... but I'm not eager to try that :)
 
Yup - 20 Muleteam Borax (found in the laundry isle) is a great method for fighting these guys.

As is a non-toxic powder called Diatomaceous Earth (ground up shellfish and such I believe). It can sometimes be found at stores like Home Depot. However, not all of them carry it, so I purchased it online most recently at an online retailer (Planet Natural).

I try to avoid poisons since I have pets, and use both of those products in my house here in GA (where roaches are prevalent). Since I moved in I've seen one roach (about a week after I got here). And that's it. After putting the borax and the diatomaceous earth around the house (inside and out), I've not seen any since then. :)

Thank goodness. They give me the heebie-jeebies!!!
 
ciaobella7122 said:
my goodness the one time i am MORE than happy to live in a cold weather climate lol! id probably die, no seriously i would, if i ever came upon a roach in my house! where i used to work i HEARD there were roaches (it was a huge facility with lots of crevasses lol) and one day i saw them i quit, cant do bugs lol! good luck
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LOL, we have roaches here in CT. I refused to go over to a friends house and reported her to DCF due to the living conditions the kids (1 yr old and 6 yr old) were living in. There were roaches and roach poo everywhere. In the kids bedding, on the table, (shiver) on the dishes in the cabinets. . . . . . . After she got evicted it took 2 years to get the place fumigated enough to kill them all. It had turned into a giant colony. Last I heard (3 yrs later) she still didn't have the kids back in spite of having to attend parenting and home-making classes.

BTW - I live in Connecticut! Those critters know how to survive even the cold weather!
 
ewww didnt want to think about it! im a total clean freak and i would move if i ever saw a roach in my house! i vaccuum every corner because we have wood spiders here and i get the heebie geebies!!!! *shudders at the thought*
 
excuzzzeme said:
LOL, we have roaches here in CT. I refused to go over to a friends house and reported her to DCF due to the living conditions the kids (1 yr old and 6 yr old) were living in. There were roaches and roach poo everywhere. In the kids bedding, on the table, (shiver) on the dishes in the cabinets. . . . . . . After she got evicted it took 2 years to get the place fumigated enough to kill them all. It had turned into a giant colony. Last I heard (3 yrs later) she still didn't have the kids back in spite of having to attend parenting and home-making classes.

BTW - I live in Connecticut! Those critters know how to survive even the cold weather!
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LOL I was gonna say the same thing.....like there aren't roaches in NY??!! If they can survive a nuclear bomb, I think they can survive cold weather.
 
excuzzzeme said:
LOL, we have roaches here in CT. I refused to go over to a friends house and reported her to DCF due to the living conditions the kids (1 yr old and 6 yr old) were living in. There were roaches and roach poo everywhere. In the kids bedding, on the table, (shiver) on the dishes in the cabinets. . . . . . . After she got evicted it took 2 years to get the place fumigated enough to kill them all. It had turned into a giant colony. Last I heard (3 yrs later) she still didn't have the kids back in spite of having to attend parenting and home-making classes.

BTW - I live in Connecticut! Those critters know how to survive even the cold weather!
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the problem with roaches is that once they are in, they tend to be in for good. even if there was a mess at first and you clean it up they will almost never go away without professionals. they eat everything, and i mean everything. you could live in a house with NO FOOD (pretend you eat at restaurants for every meal) and they'll still stick around just because they munch on so much stuff. they'll eat cardboard and the glue out of your book bindings before they move on to someplace else. they'll live for a month without any type of food as long as they have access to water, and really they'll just go outside for that if they really have to, then come back in where it's nice and warm.

i guess what i'm trying to say is that having roaches doesn't make you a gross or dirty person. sure, gross and dirty people may be much more likely to either get roaches or not care enough to do anything about it, but clean people get them too. the most common way to get them is simply to bring them home somewhere in your clothes. yeah, the ones you're wearing. or in your backpack/briefcase/luggage or even in your grocery bags.

so, don't feel too bad. try a hormone-based gel bait. non toxic, stops them from breeding, they love to eat it, and you can put it anywhere near the tanks.
 
real fish?
 
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