You guys are a bunch of BABIES!! afraid of mole crickets and lowly poor potato bugs? PFFFFTT!! BABIES!!

Here I posted a picture of one of my old tarantula mountings, from when I used to keep several:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ight=tarantula

When I was about 12 I had a huge millipede named Oscar. He was beautiful and fascinating...a very gentle vegetarian too. He was the size of a hockey puck when curled up. He was significantly bigger than this:
http://www.bugguy012002.com/african-millipede.jpg
Very fun little pet- no noise, no smells, no demanding traits, easy to feed and clean, gentle, interesting.
Now hissing cockroaches....hmmmm...I draw the line there. I grew up with roaches and just can't get into really huge ones as being appealing in any way.