Desert Community Tank

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InspectorGadget

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Just wanted to share my new community tank. Pictures here: https://imgur.com/a/vypLMV8

Build:

20 Gallon tank

Base of cocofibre (plantation soil) topped with calcium sand

Half log hide with apple flake soil (kept slightly more moist for the 'pedes)

Echeveria succulent

Inhabitants:

3x Texas Gold Millipedes (Orthoporus ornatus)

2x Blue Death Feigning Beetles (Asbolus verrucosus)

2x Smooth Death Feigning Beetles (Asbolus spp.)

1x Diabolical Ironclad Beetle (Nosoderma diabolicum)

Food:

Mostly fruit, dry cat food, beetle jellies

Tossed a couple strands of enoki mushroom in, which the Ironclad loved.

Hoping to add Wooly Darklings, Sonoran [chocolate] ornatus, and velvet ants. If I could find someone selling Edrotes ventricosus, I'd love some!

 
Nice setup! Make sure those O. ornatus get enough food; I don't see any rotting wood/rotting leaves in there, which millipedes need to survive.

I might be able to help you out with a Wooly Darkling, a velvet ant, and 3 Edrotes ventricosus depending on whether or not you are in the US.

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 
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Good tank setup and good photos!  Don't feel too bad about the Diabolical Ironclad being hard to photograph.  I received one from Bugs in Cyberspace on 5/21/20.  I should have taken a better look at it with a magnifying glass while it was still in the mini deli cup.  As soon as I let it out, it ran inside a cork bark round --
I haven't seen it since!  🤣

 
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