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Awesome find! Definitely a stag beetle. Appears to be Lucanus capreolus. I've only found one in my life, kept it as a pet for a few months, its favorite food was strawberry jelly.

My crestie isn't a big fan of the crested gecko diet but it's supposed to be one of the best... I offer it with a little baby food mixed in and she laps it up. I'm slowly weaning her off the baby food, though I offer it as a treat every once in a while off my finger. She chomps on crickets like...

IMO, aspen should only be used for BPs when they are being kept in tubs, which will kinda automatically keep in humidity. If they're in a tank, you'll have to work hard to keep up the humidity without getting scale rot (happened to my snake too!). They are a lot pickier than most people think. I...

Cocofiber! Or ecoearth, it can have different names, but it comes in a compressed brick, expands when you add water. You can control the humidity by spraying it, it can get soaking wet or completely dry, doesnt get moldy... ah it's wonderful if you're keeping a bp in a tank. Humidity should be...

One of the girls at work, who had realized what the others had done only once it was too late, washed them off right away, and I did once I brought them home... but the smaller one I guess was too badly affected. I really like the other one though, last night it uncurled and was crawling on...

Well, yesterday I took the two millipedes for $20 (the price they paid for them apparantly)... one of them wasn't looking so hot, and this morning it was very nearly dead, and now, it is quite smelly dead. :( Their mite numbers had definitely dwindled so the mite spray did its job. sigh. I...

See, that's what I thought. I know I have heard that the small reddish mobile one's aren't really a problem. It's the fat grey/black ones that are bad. The ones we have at the store, are just the little reddish ones that run around. I almost got fired today for bothering one of the bosses...

Yeah I didn't think of it yesterday while I was there, but today I'm going to let them know that most likely that stuff *will* kill the millipedes. I remember now reading on the bottle that you can't use it on arachnids so I'm assuming it's also not good for other inverts.

Oh, and it's ZooMed's "Mite Off"

My biggest concern right now is them using the reptile mite spray - isn't that stuff toxic to *all* invertebrates??

Yeah I tried explaining I had a millipede for years and mites never appeared on any of my other pets... but we've had a few snakes turn up with mites (totally different kind, the black ones) and so they're super paranoid now.

We got two giant black millipedes at the pet store where I work, and they have mites. The owners freaked out and wanted to kill them, I said I would take them but they started using reptile mite spray on them :eek: I've read some conflicting info on the nature of the mites on millipedes, is...

Go here for everything you need to know about ball pythons: http://www.ball-pythons.net/modules.php?name=Jig For substrate I use coco-fiber with some moss in one of the hides to have a nice humid spot. The only caution with the cocofiber is that it can dry out pretty quick and then keep the...

I work at a pet store and we have gotten in a few batches of captive bred, SUPER friendly chipmunks. They were called "chinese chipmunks" but I'm pretty sure they're the same kind we have around here in the US. I think as long as they are captive bred and raised and handled when they are...

Caique! This is my buddy, Pepper, the black head Caique. My dad's assistant had a family friend who passed away, and she had two parrots, a caique and a green conure, kept in the same tiny dirty cage. We don't know for how long. My family offered to take in the birds even though we've never...

A friend I work with at a pet store has a male pink toe tarantula, she showed him to me unsure of the sex and the boxing gloves were a quick giveaway. She kept saying he looked like he was about to shed and I prepared her for the inevitable result of his attempt at a post ultimate molt...

I can't see the pic but I work at a pet store and we get tons of those little things in our shipments of crickets. They seem harmless enough.

Awwww they're adorable!! I've only got one crested for now but the more I see and learn the more I want more :p

Actually the pet store I work at is at home in the US during the summer... we get our balls from breeders that give us their "leftover normals". So some might even be hets, we've been told. Who knows what though and if they're just pulling our legs :rolleyes: Either way I took one home because...

I'd like to point out that not all pet stores have sickly wild caught BPs... the pet store I work at is selling them for $50 and they're all captive bred and eating like crazy, but I have a feeling we are the exception. Glad to hear you're getting one from a good source. Here is an awesome...