Thanks @moricollins. I had been assuming tarantulas would eventually need crickets or roaches. Any idea how many mealworms an adult T would need to eat per feeding?
Hey all, I've been wondering how far my T. molitar colony will go as feeders. I have several small inverts that do fine on them, but I'm curious to their limits as feeders for larger inverts. Are there any tarantulas or spiders that can live a healthy life on nothing but mealworms? How about...
Suppose I shouldn't be trusting Wikipedia. The rove beetle page says they are the largest with 63,000 species and the weevil page says there are 97,000 species of weevil.
Glad to see someone else has kept rove beetles. I've found very little info on them, none on keeping them. Surprising considering they are the largest family of beetles on the planet with over 63,000 species and counting. I also read some experts believe less than a quarter of all tropical...
The Brown Rove Beetle I've previously posted about took down live prey today for the first time. Pretty entertaining to watch him wrangle the mealworm down and snip it into pieces with his mandibles. Really living up to the genus name "Platydracus", flat dragons! Unfortunately, by the time I got...
I'm keeping a Brown Rove Beetle (Platydracus maculosus) and am wondering if I can over feed it. Since it has settled into it's enclosure I have been leaving 2-4 prekilled mealworms near its burrow most nights. They are always gone the next day so I assume he's munching them up. Does anyone know...
I found what I think is a Brown Rove Beetle (Platydracus maculosus) today, stuck in a shoebox i left outside. Does anyone have experience with them? Are they a "keep-able" species? I don't want to keep it if it's a guaranteed death sentence. Bugguide says it's a scavenger so I assume fish...
I agree with everything mentioned above and would add that the "For Sale" section of this website is great. Besides a few things from Bugs In Cyberspace and Captive Isopoda, every invert I've purchased has been through the Arachnoboard classifieds.
The same thing as the adults, I suppose. I have micro pellets for fish and I also feed them chopped mealworms. I assume they can feed on both. Congrats on the offspring! :D
No expert here, but I've kept a desert beetle tank for a few years now. No calcium supplement neccessary. You could keep a small piece of cuttlebone in it's enclosure to see if there is any interest, but it is not necessary. Hope you enjoy your desert beetle(s)! They're really great to keep...
Thanks. I'm currently doing tiny fish pellets and prekilled mealworms. I only ask out of curiosity. They seem so slow and harmless... it's hard to imagine them taking down much!:)
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