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I bought four potential Genysa trapdoors but haven't had luck finding any info. Does anyone have any leads?
Info on Genysa genus
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I'd probably start them off with general trapdoor care and see how they settle in. Did the seller have any info on them?
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He had where they originated and was using damp peat-moss which works. The only publication I see was by Simon 1900's
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These guys seem to be rather rare and unknown. Exciting 
I looked at the descriptive papers, and the only type info is Madagascar that is such a classically frustrating 19th century thing to do. It's like they didn't know that Madagascar is a huge island with a variety of ecological zones ranging from rainforest to thornshrub. I haven't been able to find any other published material whatsoever. For what it's worth, it seems like other Idiopidae tend to be in dry-ish savannah or shrubland. Luckily, whatever material you use for substrate should serve as a humidity buffer (soil humidity is almost always near 99%, with the exception of coarse desert sand, as I understand it).
If you get these and get them to work, let us know how they go and what you do for them. What's your sex ratio like?
I looked at the descriptive papers, and the only type info is Madagascar
that is such a classically frustrating 19th century thing to do. It's like they didn't know that Madagascar is a huge island with a variety of ecological zones ranging from rainforest to thornshrub. I haven't been able to find any other published material whatsoever. For what it's worth, it seems like other Idiopidae tend to be in dry-ish savannah or shrubland. Luckily, whatever material you use for substrate should serve as a humidity buffer (soil humidity is almost always near 99%, with the exception of coarse desert sand, as I understand it).If you get these and get them to work, let us know how they go and what you do for them. What's your sex ratio like?