Disgusting Find In Siphon Tube

[Teelie]

I went to do a water change on my cory tank today after medicating it for a week and almost had the suction tube in the water when I glanced at the top of it. There was a nasty, filthy cockroach hiding up there!

I killed it and used steaming hot water to clean up the tube. I don't have a phobia of roaches, I just plain hate them so finding one of them ugly bugs in my siphon tube really wasn't something I wanted to deal with just before I go to do a big water change.

 

[WILDER]

Never seen one, and never wan't too, scary.

 

[prankster705]

I am gonna get roaches as pets soon, love them. I don't understand why people hate them, they are likely to outlive humans in the end.

 

[Teelie]

I have an aquaintence who has a Hissing Cockroach and it doesn't bother me. It's your average German/House/Brown one that you find everywhere I can't stand and they really are filthy disease mongering pests. At least the ones kept as pets are healthy and free of disease (or should be).

 

[prankster705]

Yea I will keep giant cave cochroches (tropical species). Cochroaces aren't actually filthy, they spent 25% of their time cleaning themselfes, it's what they can't clean of them selves that's the problem.

 

[bettaBetta]

I don't find brazilan or hissing roaches disgusting but the household ones make me gag. eegghhh......

 

[Inchworm]

Ewwww. Now you have to worry if that is the only one that might have been brought in with a bag of groceries or some such, or if it has dropped eggs somewhere in your house.

 

[Mr Miagi]

Atleast you didnt cop a roach in the mouth if you tried to start the venturi using suction.... that would be the ingredients for nightmares!

 

[Synirr]

Cochroaces aren't actually filthy, they spent 25% of their time cleaning themselfes, it's what they can't clean of them selves that's the problem.

I don't mind roaches, but that just plain isn't true of the species you commonly find as pests in homes. Ever swabbed a roach and tried growing the bacteria on it in a petri dish? We did this in one of my science classes in high school, as we were testing various items in the school for bacteria and happened to find and kill a roach.
Most of the petri dishes, even the ones with samples taken from inside toilets and such, only had small colonies of bacterial growth after a 24 hour period... in the roach sample, many kinds of bacteria had completely taken over the dish to the point that the growth media had been sapped dry and cracked.

For the record, the only other thing that came even remotely close to comparing with the roach sample was air coming directly out of the overhead air duct. I wonder how long it had been since they cleaned the filters??

I think it's like they say, "cats aren't clean, they're just covered in cat spit"

 

[Lynden]

Im not afraid of roaches, there is actually a very good chance they will outlive humans. Truth is, they are actually among the most highly evolved animals on earth, so much that i cannot explain it here.

I don't mind roaches, but that just plain isn't true of the species you commonly find as pests in homes. Ever swabbed a roach and tried growing the bacteria on it in a petri dish? We did this in one of my science classes in high school, as we were testing various items in the school for bacteria and happened to find and kill a roach.
Most of the petri dishes, even the ones with samples taken from inside toilets and such, only had small colonies of bacterial growth after a 24 hour period... in the roach sample, many kinds of bacteria had completely taken over the dish to the point that the growth media had been sapped dry and cracked.

I think it's like they say, "cats aren't clean, they're just covered in cat spit"

I wish i did cool stuff like that at my school. Sigh....

 

[Tolak]

I always rinse my syphoning equiptment in the sink before using. I have some spiders in the basement where the fishroom is, & don't think sucking up a spider would bee very tasty.

Tolak

 

[Lynden]

I always rinse my syphoning equiptment in the sink before using. I have some spiders in the basement where the fishroom is, & don't think sucking up a spider would bee very tasty.

Tolak

I love spiders, but i have to agree there.

 

[prankster705]

About cochroaches it isn't as bad as it sounds of 4000 species only about 5 are pest species. They probably will otlive us, as they can survive severe nuclear radiation. They haven't really changed much in 250 million years, so I admire them. O and Synirr where did you get the cochroaches for the experiment, as they can only clean some stuff of them not all. They just adapted to our way of life eating our leftovers and stuff like that, so they can survive in cityes, without them the world would acctualy be a lot more dirty, so take a different look.

 

[kat and james]

ewwww...cockroaches are GROSS.. i've never seen one in uk, but the ones we get are home can be the size of house cats.. (ok well slight exaggeration, but they are huge!)

kat

 

[BrookeLea]

Oh man.....roaches! They're always in my house! I don't get it. It's very clean in here, but I can't keep them out. It's so hot down here in the south and I've grown used to seeing roaches my whole life. I refuse to kill them, though. I catch them and throw them outside. (Maybe that's why I can't get rid of them? haha) If my fiance sees one, he says "You better get rid of it before I kill it..." Same with spiders.

I find them floating in my tanks pretty often... Nasty.

One night about a month ago, I woke up to find a roach crawling across my face... I swatted it off and my puppy ate it.

The dogs and cats also seem to think that they're toys... It's quite amusing to watch sometimes.