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    Fish, shrimp, coral, and everything else aquatic. Of course beetles and other insects too.

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  1. Hi guys thanks for the added info! I got the book and am working through it. Since I won't have any horse dung for at least a week I gave them some dog dung and at least one or two seem to like it. I will also make their substrate deeper and the only reason I didn't from the start was that I read that 6-8" might be ok. Thanks again!
  2. Thank you! We plan to try using horse dung since a friend of ours has lots readily available. Thank you! We purchased them online. I read that they could be found in Michigan, but in all my years of looking for bugs in our hot summers, I've never seen one. Thank you for the info! They currently are in a tank with about 8" of substrate, mostly coconut fiber but with some soil, sand, and leaf litter mixed in. We have yet to give them any dung but we will soon. In the mean time we have given them some "beetle jelly" but they don't seem to have touched it. They usually sit in their burrows for most of the day but sometimes a few can be seen walking around.
  3. Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum and to beetles but have many years of experience keeping and breeding freshwater and marine aquariums. In terms of pet insects I also keep different types of mantises but have never kept any beetles. I recently came to find that keeping non-native species in the USA is illegal, but luckily we have some awesome species we can keep. My first venture into beetle keeping is with Phanaeus vindex, which I will be attempting to breed. I have been very active on aquarium forums for many years (under a different username) and it's great to have found a forum geared towards this specific topic. Here's our scarabs:
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