PowerHobo
Chalcosoma
No issues or questions, just excited.
Pretty sure it still counts as second gen and not third, as I didn't personally raise the first adults from larvae. The first adult D tityus I had were CB though, and I got them freshly eclosed, interrupted their overwintering after about only a month or maybe a month and a half (unintentionally) bred them, raised a handful, and now 3 of those larvae (1 male, 2 females) have pupated and eclosed. Still waiting on the other 2 to pupate, but they're getting there.
These fresh adults only attempted to overwinter for about a month like their parents(my beetle room is too hot for that; 72-75f), and the 2 females have been gorging on about a full beetle jelly cup each per day or two for a couple weeks or so, so I went to rehome them into breeding/oviposting containers and found 15+ eggs in the barely 1.5" of sub they had. They were in minimal sub because it was just a container for artificial cells (pretty broad/wide, though) and I left them in there after eclosing.
All of the eggs are bright white, and nice & plump/sizable, so I have high hopes that they're actually fertilized and heading towards hatching.
On top of that, I decided to thoroughly check on my G thula more than just a surface glance for the first time since selling off all but 8 (or so I thought), only to discover that I apparently missed a few in the substrate, and I have 13 adults, all alive and ready to feed.
I've had another rash of bad beetle luck lately, so these were little surprises.
Semi-related fun fact: the money I was able to make selling my first personally bred batch of D tityus larvae has been pretty much the only reason I've been able to continue this hobby without taking a lengthy break after the birth of my son late 2017; I haven't really been able to expand, but at least I've been able to sustain. I doubt I'll have as much luck this time, as I've only got 2 females instead of the 4 I had last generation, but I know a good deal more now than I knew then, so maybe with a better ovipositing setup I can get close
. Alright, I'm done rambling.
Pretty sure it still counts as second gen and not third, as I didn't personally raise the first adults from larvae. The first adult D tityus I had were CB though, and I got them freshly eclosed, interrupted their overwintering after about only a month or maybe a month and a half (unintentionally) bred them, raised a handful, and now 3 of those larvae (1 male, 2 females) have pupated and eclosed. Still waiting on the other 2 to pupate, but they're getting there.
These fresh adults only attempted to overwinter for about a month like their parents(my beetle room is too hot for that; 72-75f), and the 2 females have been gorging on about a full beetle jelly cup each per day or two for a couple weeks or so, so I went to rehome them into breeding/oviposting containers and found 15+ eggs in the barely 1.5" of sub they had. They were in minimal sub because it was just a container for artificial cells (pretty broad/wide, though) and I left them in there after eclosing.
All of the eggs are bright white, and nice & plump/sizable, so I have high hopes that they're actually fertilized and heading towards hatching.
On top of that, I decided to thoroughly check on my G thula more than just a surface glance for the first time since selling off all but 8 (or so I thought), only to discover that I apparently missed a few in the substrate, and I have 13 adults, all alive and ready to feed.
I've had another rash of bad beetle luck lately, so these were little surprises.
Semi-related fun fact: the money I was able to make selling my first personally bred batch of D tityus larvae has been pretty much the only reason I've been able to continue this hobby without taking a lengthy break after the birth of my son late 2017; I haven't really been able to expand, but at least I've been able to sustain. I doubt I'll have as much luck this time, as I've only got 2 females instead of the 4 I had last generation, but I know a good deal more now than I knew then, so maybe with a better ovipositing setup I can get close
. Alright, I'm done rambling.
). I was keeping D.hercules and a few dorcus species so I forgot about it lol.