Hydrophilus
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2015
- Messages
- 31
Hello all,
I am new to the forums, and am hoping there are some folks here who have experience keeping and breeding harvestmen. I have, on several occasions, tried to keep several species found in my area (central NY), but with no success. All specimens eventually died. I would like to get some V. ornata eventually, but feel I should "practice" with one of my locally available species first to prevent making one or several expensive mistakes. I have generally put several individuals into a small kritter keeper with ~1cm of coir. I water one end of the container, and keep the food (fish flakes, which they do seem to relish) on the dry side to prevent them from molding. Obviously this has not worked for me, so if there are people here keeping harvestmen successfully, I'd love to see your setups!
-Eric
I am new to the forums, and am hoping there are some folks here who have experience keeping and breeding harvestmen. I have, on several occasions, tried to keep several species found in my area (central NY), but with no success. All specimens eventually died. I would like to get some V. ornata eventually, but feel I should "practice" with one of my locally available species first to prevent making one or several expensive mistakes. I have generally put several individuals into a small kritter keeper with ~1cm of coir. I water one end of the container, and keep the food (fish flakes, which they do seem to relish) on the dry side to prevent them from molding. Obviously this has not worked for me, so if there are people here keeping harvestmen successfully, I'd love to see your setups!
-Eric