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- May 27, 2022
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For years I have been interested in Gromphadorhina portentosa, and I got my husband into them also.
Now on Monday we got them, four juvenile boys. My friend breeds them (she theaches in a school for future vet techs and is an expert with all kinds of bugs, mice and rats and etc etc
) so we go them for a cheap 2€ a piece. We're so excited!
Our small terrarium is still a bit in process, the living plants are small, but they grow fast. I took saplings from the scorpion enclosure. That's why there's a plastic plant. We don't agree with artificial plants at all, the environment has to be as natural as possible. They live in Madagascar after all!
There's coconut mulch, moss, cork bark, and I don't know the other kind of wood in English. Day/night cycle (we live at the Arctic Circle - Finland - so that's very challenging in summer when we have sunlight 23 hours per day), moisture, suitable food and some high quality cat kibble couple of times a week. The enclosure is very very tight and the top (with ventlating mesh) and the door have locking latches so no escaping possible
My questions:
One of them has a shorter antenna, other one is normal length. It's like the antenna has snapped, and is now a two thirds in length. Is it harmful? Why does this happen?
They do like to be in a group, jam themselves in a same hole too, and don't hiss at eachother. Is this because they're juveniles? If so, do they come more aggressive to eachother as they mature? That's why we have only 4 so they can have their own personal space and not be in a stressful crowd.
Of course they have names.
Now on Monday we got them, four juvenile boys. My friend breeds them (she theaches in a school for future vet techs and is an expert with all kinds of bugs, mice and rats and etc etc
) so we go them for a cheap 2€ a piece. We're so excited! Our small terrarium is still a bit in process, the living plants are small, but they grow fast. I took saplings from the scorpion enclosure. That's why there's a plastic plant. We don't agree with artificial plants at all, the environment has to be as natural as possible. They live in Madagascar after all!
There's coconut mulch, moss, cork bark, and I don't know the other kind of wood in English. Day/night cycle (we live at the Arctic Circle - Finland - so that's very challenging in summer when we have sunlight 23 hours per day), moisture, suitable food and some high quality cat kibble couple of times a week. The enclosure is very very tight and the top (with ventlating mesh) and the door have locking latches so no escaping possible
My questions:
One of them has a shorter antenna, other one is normal length. It's like the antenna has snapped, and is now a two thirds in length. Is it harmful? Why does this happen?
They do like to be in a group, jam themselves in a same hole too, and don't hiss at eachother. Is this because they're juveniles? If so, do they come more aggressive to eachother as they mature? That's why we have only 4 so they can have their own personal space and not be in a stressful crowd.
Of course they have names.
