M.Finae

Are there any breeders in Canada? I was just wondering if there were cuz most of the people seem to be in the US. If so, is there anyone willing to sell any of the native lucanus, the dorcus parallelus, or any muelleri and metallifer? Or just any Stag beetles!! PM me

Yes. It is correct that they live longer when they are done hibernation. The Maturing time for this species is about after 1-2months after their first meal, which would have been already done if you found them in July. I suggest you breed them now, and get as much as larvae untill october, and hibernate them starting from november. the end of summer is the best time to lay eggs and breed, because the life span is most likely to end before may-july, and get the next generation ready for breeding at the same season as their parents have done.

This breed is also in Korea, It lives around 3-4 years, and has a extremly long life for a beetle. You usually hibernate when you need to, in case you need to keep the beetle for next year breeding. This method is ususlly used when making your own bloodline, because you would want to keep the one with the rare characteristics as long as possible so that you could breed it for a longer amount of time. I'm not sure if it is making sense, but.... hibernation can be done by putting the male, and the female preferable in seperate enclosures, and staking up at least 20 centimeters of substrate. This way the beetles could dig inside and hibernate more quickly and dont freeze to death... You would need to put them in a cold place, usually below 19celcius, and they will start hibernating. On breeding You need a enclosure large enough to put the wood inside(breeding wood). you put 4cm of substrate, and the wood, and cover with some substrate. the wood needs to be prepared with special care. You need to peel off any remaining bark on the wood, and any og the orange material left behid the bark on the wood. This orange material is critical to the larvae's health, because it is known to cause the intestines of the larvae to pop out, and die. once the wood is clean, you put in in the water for around 20minutes, and it is ready for the egg laying. This reed rather prefers it dry. This breed always digs up on the wood, so its quite a mess when it starts laying eggs. but its also one of my favorite, because its very pleasing to peel out the wood to find the larvae and eggs.

Yeah I have fought them before... This guy is a part of a bloodline I was making which is supposed to magnify the thickness in the body and especially the pincers. These species is actually very thin most of the times, and this guy is one of the rarer versions. Its easy to think them as the green type or red types in the P. Muelleri breeds, just that its slightly more rare to breed this type of guy. This breed is known to be rather calm, but very agressive at times. It's picers does not make it a very powefully destructive threat. There is another breed which is the Korean titanius, which is known to be the best fighter in Korea! I'll post more later on

ill post more later on

Hey here are some breeds I used to breed in Korea. In Korea, the popular breeds are usually dorcus hopei binodulusus, which male size varies from 30- 86 There are two most popular types, which would be the ones bred for length and size, and also the ones which are bred for the thickness of the body and pincers. I used to be and still am a breeder who breeds for the thickness of the body and the pincers, and successfully have bred a pair to have offsprings with a steady possibility of thick pincers. Here is one of the offsprings.

I unfortunately dont have any yet, but I have photos of the one I used to keep back in Korea I has only been a month since I came to Canada, so they are pretty recent.

Hello I live in Canada BC. I used to breed a lot of breeds in Korea such as dorcus rectus, binodoculos, koreanus, titanius casticolor, etc... However, I had to give them up when I came to Canada. I was wondering If I could also get canadian stag beetles her and breed them If any of you guys are selling any, contact me please