I've created a monster!

[Dark Raptor]

I keep my Zophobas morio on rottened birch wood. Look what I've just found... It appeard in a few hours. My beetles were so happy

...but after 24 hours food just dissapeard

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[Scolopendra55]

What was that?

 

[Dark Raptor]

What was that?

Myxomycota fungus

 

[crashergs]

what the heck... how do you grow that, details!

whats that brown stuff? common! lol

 

[Scolopendra55]

did your beetles eat it?

 

[Scythemantis]

what the heck... how do you grow that, details!

whats that brown stuff? common! lol

Like he said, it simply grew from the rotten wood within a few hours. Fungus can be anywhere but you won't know until it "fruits", and that's what's happened here. He didn't try to grow it...it was there all along.

 

[Scolopendra55]

Thats so cool!! It looks like some sort of egg mass!!

 

[Dark Raptor]

Thanks Scythemantis, you are right

I can only add that all remains were eaten in the next two days. Tenebrionidae beetles love almost all fungi.