Elliptorhina javanica | Halloween Hissing Cockroach
 
Elliptorhina javanica is a pretty hissing cockroach with beautiful yellows and browns to almost black colourations. A very popular species in the hobby and very easy to look after and breed.
 
NOTE:
It is essential to keep any cockroach species in it's own enclosure to prevent cross breeding with similar species. This is extremely relevent to any of the hissing cockroaches as cross breeding is unfortunatitly far too common and it is imperative to keep any species pure.
WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON HAVING PURE COCKROACH SPECIES AND ALWAYS STATE THE GENUS AND SPECIES, IF THERE IS NO GENUS OR SPECIES NAMED, THEN IT IS EITHER UNKNOWN OR A HYBRID.
 
Scientific Classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Blaberidae
Genus: Elliptorhina
Species: javanica 
 
How I Keep Mine
Housing: 
Any kind of see through plastic or glass container with a tight fitting lid, the nymphs of Elliptorhina javanica Halloween Hissing Cockroach will squeeze out of anything. Plenty of ventilation is a must.
 
Substrate:
We keep our Elliptorhina javanica Halloween Hissing Cockroaches on damp leaf litter with a little peat moss or coco coir mixed in
 
Temperature:
Room temperture 20 - 22ºC / 68 - 72ºF
A heat mat can be put on one of the sides to increas growth and breeding rates.
 
Humidity:
70-85%
 
Food:
Elliptorhina javanica Halloween Hissing Cockroach will eat apple, orange, lettuce, green cabbage, carrot.