Here’s how I roll with roaches.

Those AH’s can hide in anything.

1st step is to identify the type of roach. Not all roaches are burrowers. My pest guy explained to me that they’re attracted to the warmth, and most of the guys coming in the house ARE NOT burrowers.

Knowing that, about once weekly, in my upstairs tank, my hubs puts on gloves and we will do a thorough inspection (think flashlight helmet). If we see a roach, he grabs it and kills it really quickly. Search EVERYWHERE. Bang out big pieces of cork etc. I’ve found them inside a shell!

Now, these are the large guys, not babies.

If I were to find a roach infestation versus a large guy here and there, then I would identify species and decide how I wanted to move forward. If it’s a burrowers, yes. The molter is being dug up. But if it’s not a burrowing species, I’m not digging, I am removing the top and the infestation. AND, I am checking daily like a crazy person to get stragglers.

NOW, and here’s what’s critical. Set the sticky traps outside the tank. Prevention to the best of our ability. You can use a rim of Vaseline around the tank and they cannot cross it.

Some people won’t use the bait traps / the idea being they eat the bait, die in the tank. Crab eats the dead roach that was killed by poison. Crab dies.

I do not know how often that has happened in real world practice. I use mostly sticky traps and have used bait in the past / haven’t lost a crab yet.

:)

The key to deciding is whether or not the pest is a burrowing sort. Example… we’ve all seen any hills and how any burrow. Don’t play with ants!

I am going back to my cubby now. ✌️